Happy sweet 16 Anna!!!

Love you so much!! We are growing old =) lol... but it has been fun. I'm glad to have you as a friend.

Welcome 2008!!

Security from Yesterday. "God requires that which is past." At the end of the year we turn with eagerness to all that God has for the future, and yet anxiety is apt to arise from remembering the yesterdays. Our present enjoyment of God's grace is apt to be checked by the memory of yesterday's sins and blunders. But God is the God of our yesterdays, and He allows the memory of them in order to turn the past into a ministry of spiritual culture for the future. God reminds us of the past lest we get into a shallow security in the present.

Security for To-morrow. "For the Lord will go before you." This is a gracious revelation, that God will garrison where we have failed to. He will watch lest things trip us up again into like failure, as they assuredly would do if He were not our reward. God's hand reaches back to the past and makes a clearing-house for conscience.

Security for To-day. "For ye shall not go out with haste." As we go forth into the coming year, let it not be in the haste of impetuous, unremembering delight, nor with the flight of impulsive thoughtlessness, but with the patient power of knowing that the God of Israel will go before us. Our yesterdays present irreparable things to us; it is true that we have lost opportunities which will never return, but God can transform this destructive anxiety into a constructive thoughtfulness for the future. Let the past sleep, but let it sleep on the bosom of Christ.

Leave the Irreparable Past in His hands, and step out into the Irresistible Future with Him.

The simpleton and the fool....

Sunday night Renee and Jon's pastor was talking about the simpleton and the fool and the difference between the two. he was saying that a simpleton is a person who is very naive and someone who goes through life just kinda following the crowd not having any concept of the bad choices they are making. A fool is someone who chooses to turn their back on God and Make those bad choices. They know what they are doing, and they will argue to no end that they are not wrong. And he was saying that The simpletons can be reached and should be reached. But with a fool it is pointless to try to talk with them. you will be literally wasting your time. Their are many simpletons out there and it is our job to reach them. And then he was saying look at your own self. so you have the characteristics of a simpleton or a fool? I can't really remember all the verses and stuff he used but most were from proverbs and psalms... anyways, I thought the message was really good.