Did you notice?! Did you see the pics Jeff posted? Thanks Jeff! Did you notice Erins cheeks? An apple in each one! :) What a puddin' cake!
She is definatly a smiley baby and its hard to concentrate on anything else when she is awake and looking at you like... "will you smile and talk with me". Her smile draws you in and compells you to give your full attention and begin babbeling with a lilt in your voice and oogeling over her ever dimple, raised eyebrow or coo. Its amazing how you could be mad at the world, not that we ever get to that point, but then one little face looks at you and just settles your spirit and makes you melt. Hmmm... similar thing when I am upset and then start praying. Just puts things into perspective and the other things become strangly dim in Jesus' light.
Today was a nice Saturday. Did some laundry, got bitten by some midges, caught up with some other moms on the phone, got bitten by some midges, ran down to the co-op for eggs, bread and milk, came back to make pancakes and get bitten by midges on the way back. The kids worked on a coloring contest, Marc typed out his notes for the course he was working on, I hung out some more laundry and got bitten by more midges. We decided to go for a walk to the University Lake to feed the ducks. THe kids shared some bread with other kids to feed the ducks then tromped through the edge of the lake in the creek under the giant rhodadendrun and we got bitten by more midges, oh and Kayleigh got picked by stingey nettle and Liam decided to take a face plant on the sidewalk. Kayleighs jumping rope is improving at a rapid speed on the way. We ended up at the Macrobert (Comunity theater and center on Uni. campus)looking at the local Stirling kids art gallery focusing on the history of this country and William Wallace. (700 year celebration of W.Wallace this year!!!) Braveheart on the BIG SCREEN... Marc is psyched! He is now preparing to preach for tomorrow at Stirling Baptist Church. Something about the Upsidown Church and Pentecost. Im sure he will work in an IWT presentation in there somewhere. Ohhhhhh ..... did I mention that I GOT BITTEN BY MIDGES?! THEY ARE NASTY THOSE BUGGERS! I guess Ill have to load up on garlic or someting. :) All in all a nice day, It felt like a saturday... nice!
Love to all! Julie
Saturday, May 14, 2005
Thursday, May 05, 2005
Hello to everyone once again from the land of 'Hammish' the highland cow.
First of all I would like to appologise for not keeping up with the blog lately. To be perfectly honest, the whole thing feels a bit narcisistic. Since many of you have voiced your displeasure at our neglegence, we will try to do better at keeping up with things.
We just returned from a wee holiday trip to the Isle's of Mull and Iona. Iona you might know is where the Irishman Columba, first brought Christianity to Scotland in the yr. 563. He would go on to build a monastary on the very small Island of Iona, and would later spread the gospel to some of the eastern areas of Scotland. As I was looking out at the amazing view from Iona towards Mull, I kept wondering why Columba as a missionary would settle on such a desolate place. I mean this place is practically devoid of civilization. It's definitely National Geographic material. It reminded me that Christianity is not just missions and evangelism, it is primarily a relationship with God. With that in mind, it all made sense because I don't think I've ever been to a place that was so condusive to just spending time with God. It was absolutley beautiful. I could have stared out at the view for days without tiring. I think if we would spend more time doing just that, we would naturally become more contagious Christians. So, take some time out of your day today just to be with God and see what happens. By the way you don't need to go to Iona to do this. You can just find a quiet spot and open the word and meditate on it.
Ironically, though you can see God's handywork here all through the countryside, there's evidence of the dying church here in everytown we go in. Just about every town we visited had at least one church that had closed its doors and reopened as a tourist information site, retail shop or antique mall. It's sad to see but a reminder of why we are here. Please pray for this land, it is much worse than I would have ever imagined before we came over and sometimes the state of things seems overwhelming. We are just hoping our time here will help to make a dent somehow. This is only possible though through the power of the Holy Spirit so pray, pray, pray!!!
That's all for now, I need to make some phone calls and hopefully work on that dent.
Marc
First of all I would like to appologise for not keeping up with the blog lately. To be perfectly honest, the whole thing feels a bit narcisistic. Since many of you have voiced your displeasure at our neglegence, we will try to do better at keeping up with things.
We just returned from a wee holiday trip to the Isle's of Mull and Iona. Iona you might know is where the Irishman Columba, first brought Christianity to Scotland in the yr. 563. He would go on to build a monastary on the very small Island of Iona, and would later spread the gospel to some of the eastern areas of Scotland. As I was looking out at the amazing view from Iona towards Mull, I kept wondering why Columba as a missionary would settle on such a desolate place. I mean this place is practically devoid of civilization. It's definitely National Geographic material. It reminded me that Christianity is not just missions and evangelism, it is primarily a relationship with God. With that in mind, it all made sense because I don't think I've ever been to a place that was so condusive to just spending time with God. It was absolutley beautiful. I could have stared out at the view for days without tiring. I think if we would spend more time doing just that, we would naturally become more contagious Christians. So, take some time out of your day today just to be with God and see what happens. By the way you don't need to go to Iona to do this. You can just find a quiet spot and open the word and meditate on it.
Ironically, though you can see God's handywork here all through the countryside, there's evidence of the dying church here in everytown we go in. Just about every town we visited had at least one church that had closed its doors and reopened as a tourist information site, retail shop or antique mall. It's sad to see but a reminder of why we are here. Please pray for this land, it is much worse than I would have ever imagined before we came over and sometimes the state of things seems overwhelming. We are just hoping our time here will help to make a dent somehow. This is only possible though through the power of the Holy Spirit so pray, pray, pray!!!
That's all for now, I need to make some phone calls and hopefully work on that dent.
Marc
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