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 Hey all! I just started this post so we can jab about what WE ALL are doing this Summer. BTW, where are you Fig gals going? London? Seattle? Please keep in contact via blog or postcards! :-)  Jean and I are really strapped this Summer. We have a lot of home renovations to do and need to be fruggle. It’s a good thing though, we need to do these things to get out from under this house. We’ll do something close and not too expensive. I know we’ll have a lot of pool parties and you all are welcome!

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 June 22nd is the next dinner. We planned on having a cookout with them. Hamburgers and Hot Dogs with all the trimmings. I’m wondering if we can get any of you to join in with us. Since I take care of the pool now, we could hang out by the pool and on the patio with them. We could play some volley ball or hoop as well!!! Let us know if you are interested in sharing this special time with us.

We hope and pray you can join us.

For Him

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Some thoughts while sitting at Starbucks.

What does it mean and how do I move towards it? Is joy something to capture or something to dream of? Once we have it do we purpose to keep it or do we lose it only to find it again and again? Like eating, we eat when we are hungry and stop eating when we are no longer hungry, just to find ourselves hungry again later. Or does joy stay and we relish in its glow to know it better and never lose it? Where does it come from, does it not exist in us already? Does Jesus Christ provide it through the blood shed on the cross… by the burden he now carries? Certainly not, how can joy be defined to this when all we feel is sadness in our souls for what Christ had to endure. Joy cannot be near this sadness when we realize what a sacrifice was made and what love our savior has for us. Our human hearts cannot see joy in this…can it? Does joy come from this? Does it bare itself through the journey from sadness and pain after our eyes and ears are opened? Does it come after the acceptance of the love and freedom we are now able to live and serve in because of Him? Is this the journey? Or the destination? A place or feeling that we can describe so we know we have it?

It is in the freedom and understanding of what we have; Eternal life…something Jesus Chris can only give or can someone else give us joy? Not in the same sense when held up against the love God has shown us through his son. How can our humanity provide an equal level of joy, when our hearts are so wicked? If our hearts are wicked, where does joy come from…hmmm now that’s interesting.

Maybe when we are honest and recognize that knowing in our soul, that place where we can’t lie, the sacrifice made for us so that we can be reconciled to Him. Not out of obligation for that is a lie, or through religious or secular lenses, those are lies also, but through the gospel lenses which allows to have that honest joy, which permits us to do His work with courage and desire without hesitation, because we are free to do it. What do we have to offer each other if we don’t have joy? I mean to say from joy comes hope, purpose, peace, love, contentment, sacrifice without bitterness, humility, meekness…doesn’t it? Isn’t it a statement of the heart because it cannot be fashioned out of circumstances because those change daily. Is this even important?

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I wanna join a band! We gonna sing and dance a celebration. We’re in the promise land!

Those are some of the lyrics from Led Zepplin’s Celebration Day song that started up on our website as I was going to right this post about last night! Man the Spirit is working on me!

On the way home Jean and I were so joyful. I haven’t felt that good in a long time. All of you are awesome and we are blessed to the hilt from God to have you in our lives. Wow what a great feeling.

Anyways, We were on George Bush driving and the radio volume was low. We had a moment of silence and all of the sudden I bursted out with a giggle. A loud uncontrollable giggle. Jean looked at me and said “what?” I looked at her and said “nothing! It was just joy that flowed out of my heart!” I did it again but this time I really tried to understand where it came from. What did I think of? Was is something someone said? No, it was not one thing but all things were good. Really good. I almost felt guilty for feeling that good. Satan was right there in the midst of my Joy from God. We continually praised God and that laughter and joy went on and on. Satan lost out on that moment. Thank you Jesus!

Then about 2 minutes later I started humming that song from U2 (Derek’s fav) It’s alright, it’s alright, it’s alright. She moves in mysterious ways. But instead of “She” I used “He”.  HE MOVES IN MYSTERIOUS WAYS. He sure does and did tonight at Derek and Maria’s beautiful home and on our way home He was showing me and telling me It’s alright, it’s alright, it’s alright.

We don’t have to worry about our group, family or friends. We are all His children and if He moves us, He moves us but that doesn’t have to be the end. He also told me that if we try and control these relationships and not let Him have control of these relationships, He will take them away from us to teach us who is in control. For whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted. Matthew and Luke.

So I give my brothers and sisters to you Lord in hopes that you keep blessing our lives together. Thy Kingdom come, thy will be done. On earth as it is in heaven.

Amen

 Interesting song that leaves you wondering what’s it means. It means to me that God is in control! He will make it alright in his time and enjoy this time we have on earth and don’t be afraid but rejoice in the Spirit and things will be alright!

Other meaning are that Johnny is John the Baptist and the rain is his Baptism. Check out these websites on the meaning of this song.

http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=936

http://www.songmeanings.net/lyric.php?lid=10247

WHAT DO YOU THINK SON LOVERS?

Mysterious Ways

Johnny, take a walk with your sister the moon
Let her pale light in, to fill up your room.
You’ve been living underground, eating from a can
You’ve been running away from what you don’t understand.

She’s slippy, you’re sliding down.
She’ll be there when you hit the ground.

It’s alright, it’s alright, it’s alright.
She moves in mysterious ways.
It’s alright, it’s alright, it’s alright.
She moves in mysterious ways, oh.

Johnny, take a dive with your sister in the rain
Let her talk about the things you can’t explain.
To touch is to heal, to hurt is to steal.
If you want to kiss the sky, better learn how to kneel
On your knees, boy!

She’s the wave, she turns the tide
She sees the man inside the child.

It’s alright, it’s alright, it’s alright.
She moves in mysterious ways.
It’s alright, it’s alright, it’s alright.
She moves in mysterious ways, yeah, oh, ah.

Lift my days, light up my nights, oh.

One day you’ll look back, and you’ll see
Where you were held now by this love.
While you could stand there,
You could move on this moment
Follow this feeling.

It’s alright, it’s alright, it’s alright.
She moves in mysterious ways.
It’s alright, it’s alright, it’s alright.
She moves in mysterious ways.

Move you, spirits move you
Move, spirits ‘its move you, oh yeah.
Does it move you?
She moves with it.
Lift my days, and light up my nights, oh.

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Was reviewing some messages (The Village Church, Matt Chandler-August 2007) and ran across this one, its part of a three part series on the role of men. Starts with Masculinity, then being a Husband and finished with Fathers. BTW, the Husband sermon is awesome, though I am not posting about that one today. I wanted to post some highlights from the Masculinity message. I will add in comments and additional statemnmets as we go along…These are not my words by Matt Chandler’s, I am just copy and pasting. Want to start some diologue guys…it’s long and a lot to digest and hope it provokes some diologue. go to www.thevillagechurch.com to get the entire message.

So what do you think about these statements:

I want to talk about what being a man is, and I want to talk about what God created men for. It’s a complex subject, and I know a lot of women are like, “It’s not complex, alright. Feed him, hug him, he’s fine.” I know there are those of you who don’t think it’s that complex. But did you know that 1 Corinthians 11 says that men are the glory of God? That’s a really big, broad, massive thing. So I’m going to try to tackle it. I want to define it tonight, Now, if you’re a woman in here, we have addressed women. In fact, we’ve addressed it just a month or so ago. And so, we’re going to do men now. And here, I don’t want to offend you. I’m not trying to offend you in any way, but here’s my promise to you: no matter who you are as a woman, you’re affected by men. You either have one, you’re married to one or you want one or you had one and now don’t want one. But all of us are affected. And so, what I want to do is biblically lay out what God has commanded them to be, and if they’ll hear that, then everybody’s better off. But here’s the deal I need you to make with yourself. If you try to play the role of the Holy Spirit in any of this, you will absolutely destroy everything that the Holy Spirit works through the word tonight. If we get in the car tonight and you’re like, “Did you hear him?,” it’s just going to go bad for you. And I know some of you are stronger; you’re not going to listen to me here because you can make him listen. I’ll accept your apology next week. Let’s go.Genesis chapters 1, 2 and 3 says that God creates the entire universe. He creates it rhythmically,beautifully and everything’s functioning where it’s supposed to function and everything’s working perfectly. And He crates the earth, and on the majority of the earth, He puts this wild, untamed, rugged landscape. And in the middle, the Scriptures say He plants the garden, the garden of Eden. And within Eden, everything is trimmed and it’s nice and it works well and it’s not untamed, wild and rugged like the rest of the earth. And He plants that there, and then the Scriptures say that He makes man and woman. In His image, he makes them both. Now this is pretty key because the truth is men and women are created equally but distinctively. The argument has never been equality. We are absolutely equal in the same way that Jesus and God are both God and equal, but different. So men and women are equal, but we’re absolutely different. And God has made us distinctly the way we are for his purposes. And I don’t think you have to be a genius or a sociologist or even a good reader to
understand this; I just think you have to have kids. My son receives love from me by wrestling, head butting. He wants deep pressure, deep tickle. He wants to fight, he wants to wrestle, he wants to bite me. This is what my son wants. My son wants hard play and hard touch; that’s what he wants. He is aggressive; that’s what he is. I was out of town all this week. I flew back in on Thursday. Since I’ve walked in the door, he is tackling me, throwing stuff at me, shoving down his sister, just daring me for a fight. I mean, he wants me to work him; that’s what he wants. He’s begging me to rough him up; he’s begging me. My daughter, on the other hand, doesn’t want any of that. She wants me to dote on her. She changes clothes thirty-two times a day, four less than her mother. I probably will pay for that later. What she wants is, every time she’s changed any bit of it, her shoes, her dress, she wants me to stop what I’m doing, she wants me to turn to her and she wants me to tell her how beautiful she is. She wants me to play with her hair. She wants me to tell her stories. She wants to cuddle; this is what my
daughter wants. My daughter doesn’t want me to body slam her on the bed; that’s not what she wants. She wants to talk. My daughter perpetually says, “Do you know what?…” and then she talks. For hours and hours, she talks. Here would be another example. Right before I flew to Seattle, I’m sitting on the couch and “The Last Samurai” is on and a Japanese man is beating the mess out of Tom Cruise with a stick…awesome. And my son, who is not in the TV deal, stares at that television smiling, looking at me, looking back at the TV going, “This is legit? You can beat men with sticks?” And I’m like, “Yes, you can.” On the other hand, my daughter is going, “Can you change the channel?” It makes her nervous. She doesn’t like it. It’s bothering her. She doesn’t understand.

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