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Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Sunday, March 29, 2009
Grace
This time last year I wrote a post entitled Grace. You're more than welcome to visit it there. Maybe it's just the time of year (very very busy at school), but Grace is something I'm really struggling with right now.
Am I the only one?
I really try to believe and have faith that no matter what I've done, and no matter what I may struggle with, God's grace covers me for eternity. I think it's the most amazing thing and the most difficult thing (at least for me) to understand about Christianity. I mean seriously folks, what did I do to deserve the love of the creator of the universe?
I think all earthly love is conditional...well not conditional, but maybe situational. Bear with me as I ramble on here.
I know that sounds weird, and it's just me typing here, but even if you are married or you have kids...that love is conditional. Would you love your kids if they weren't yours? Would you love your spouse if he was someone elses? Would you love your siblings or parents if they weren't yours?
God's love...the love and compassion that we can find through Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit, is unconditional. Sometimes its just too much for me to comprehend. I'm hoping that as I mature as a Christian that it will become an easier concept to understand.
I just don't feel very worthy of it sometimes. Then, I know that's me not having enough faith, so then I feel guilty for not believing. Sheesh. Why am I so hard on myself.
Oh well...I know this is a strange post, but I will end with this...If you pray please send up a little prayer for me, but send up some big prayers for Stellan. I follow MckMama's blog and have since before this little one was born. He's struggling a bunch right now.
Love and such...
Debra
Am I the only one?
I really try to believe and have faith that no matter what I've done, and no matter what I may struggle with, God's grace covers me for eternity. I think it's the most amazing thing and the most difficult thing (at least for me) to understand about Christianity. I mean seriously folks, what did I do to deserve the love of the creator of the universe?
I think all earthly love is conditional...well not conditional, but maybe situational. Bear with me as I ramble on here.
I know that sounds weird, and it's just me typing here, but even if you are married or you have kids...that love is conditional. Would you love your kids if they weren't yours? Would you love your spouse if he was someone elses? Would you love your siblings or parents if they weren't yours?
God's love...the love and compassion that we can find through Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit, is unconditional. Sometimes its just too much for me to comprehend. I'm hoping that as I mature as a Christian that it will become an easier concept to understand.
I just don't feel very worthy of it sometimes. Then, I know that's me not having enough faith, so then I feel guilty for not believing. Sheesh. Why am I so hard on myself.
Oh well...I know this is a strange post, but I will end with this...If you pray please send up a little prayer for me, but send up some big prayers for Stellan. I follow MckMama's blog and have since before this little one was born. He's struggling a bunch right now.
Love and such...
Debra
Monday, March 2, 2009
Babies, Basketball, and Bonus Brothers
Even though I usually post pictures on my picture blog, I thought I would make an exception. This weekend I spent a lot of time on the road and got to see basketball, babies and my bonus brothers.
Basketball
Basketball
This is a shot from the second floor of our school before the playoff/send off pep rally for our girls basketball team, state swimming qualifiers and state wrestler.
This is our girls basketball team...pretty and pretty awesome. They lost in the regional finals, one game out from the state tournament. It was harsh. But...it happens. Most of our swimmers placed, including a pretty awesome freshman. And our wrestler got second in her weight class.
Babies
In between watching basketball in Austin (see pictures below) and Waco (see pep rally above) I got to see my friend Robin and her two sweet girls...Tyler (23 months) and Dylan (4 months).
Bonus Brothers... I got to hang out with the Netsch boys and one of the Land boys while I was in Austin to watch Taylor's senior night game.
I wish I could write about these kids and do justice to their senses of humor, intelligence and pure love for one another. You can't see Kristen on the far left but she's a cutie! Nick is the oldest (glasses), Marcus is the middle child (3rd of 4) and Lucas is the 2nd oldest. They really do make me laugh so much!
Even though you can't see his face (I'll post a clear one below), this is one of my favorite pictures of Taylor. He's so unassuming and humble and just an amazing guy. He was looking down while all of his stats were being read. That's just the way he is. Please pray for him. This was at the game on Thursday, he proceeded to play baseball on Friday (yep, 2 sports at the division 2 level, graduating with a 4.0 in may...really), and break his arm badly enough to warrant surgery during Saturday night's game. Please pray for strength and healing. He's got a good grip on his life, spiritually and otherwise, but it can't be easy to have the thing you love taken away from you before you were quite finished with it (their team will be in the playoffs and he was seriously considering a tryout with a European team). Love him to pieces.
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