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Heaven on Earth

Feb1

I don’t get many free days when I have absolutely nothing scheduled. I LOVE those days. Last Friday was one. The grocery shopping was done, the grading of papers was done. I didn’t even have to think about making dinner because I was going out on a date with my middle child and dinner was my husband’s responsibility.

So what was I going to do with my 5 free hours? Read a book? Watch a movie? Go shopping and spend my birthday gift cards? No. I decided to clean the house.

I don’t like to clean the house, but with three kids, a big dog, a cat, a husband and a mother in law living here (not that the last two are very messy, mind you), the task was long overdue.

So after everyone left the house for the day, I tuned our new Blu-Ray player to stream a Pandora worship station through our stereo, cranked it up, got out the vacuum cleaner and the dust rag and had a great time jamming to tunes lifting up the name of Jesus while clearing out the layers of dust that had accumulated since I had put away the Christmas stuff three weeks before. It hardly seemed like work.

God inhabits the praises of His people. Worship lifts my heart and renews my soul. When the kids got home, I wasn’t tired and grumpy from having been cleaning all morning, I was rested, refreshed and cheerful.

Oh, how I long for heaven, when worship will be our native tongue. Amen. Come quickly Lord Jesus.

Boys Will Be Boys

Jan31
I have two sons, and, from an early age, they were into weapons. No matter that Mom hates guns, boys will be boys, I was told, and even if I never let them have guns or watch shows on TV with guns, they would eat their toast into the shape of a gun and then pretend to shoot someone with it. 

What’s up with that? Image

In James 5, Jesus’ brother talks about the corruption, exploitation and, ultimately, the murder of the innocent by which some of the rich in that day were characterized. That was not just an example of boys being boys. It was considered evil. “The cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord Almighty.”

Speak for those who have no voice. Be a champion for the downtrodden (Proverbs 31:8). Do not promote violence, but promote peace (Matthew 5:9). How about a new saying: Boys will be like Jesus.