June 5, 2012

• I’m going to resist making excuses. And, I’ve been thinking of coming back here. What hinders me is that I know I don’t have time to read everyone else’s wonderful blogs,
  but I do miss my feeble attempts to ruminate….so, maybe I’ll just ignore my hesitations and return. Golly, my last entry was the end of March….
  
  Right now it’s late and I’m enjoying the rain humming through the cracked window. Pretty steady. Soothing. It’s competing with my man, who is snoring beside me. Poor guy, he sleeps with little eye shades on so that I can have the light on. That’s love for you.
  
  Since the end of March, what’s happened? Let me see if I can recap without being utterly boring. Various meetings – with church, in the community. A trip to Utah. (That was very enjoyable.) It is still amazing to us that we live west of the Rockies. The girls’ social calendars – usually full. A visit from Laura, one of our dear PA friends. Prom, which culminated after the making of the dress. Our oldest daughter’s engagement. A long weekend in Texas. School and work, of course – they go without saying. Kids’ birthdays. Quite a bit of weeding. (Yards to go.) Books. Movies. Dinners – common and special.
  Sweet times. Tense times. The (very) occasional boredom. Good talks.
  Temptations to worry. Silences. Some frustrations. Much beauty.

  You know – life, and that “to the full”.
  
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  “In Jesus, the service of God and the service of the least of the brethren were one.” ~
  D. Bonhoeffer
  
  I love the opportunities we have had to serve – former strangers in our town, whom we now call friends, the homeless, the needy. It’s been a true treasure to discover
   the face of Jesus where one least expects Him.
  
  “Beloved, if God loved us so very much, we also ought to love one another.” 1 Jn 4:11
  “In so far as you did it for one of the least of these…you did it for Me.” Mt 25:40
  
  Perhaps the best development that has come out of our move here has been to get us out of our small circles of what is known, out into the community,
  with folks who we thought were very different than us.
  We’ve found that there’s so much more that is just the same.
  
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  Kate, who lives in Texas, came to visit a couple months ago. Jesse came down from Portland, (an hour north of us), to see her. It’s always a delight
  when the independent ones come back.
  
  
  
  Here she is with Zach. They’re planning on an October 6th wedding.
  
  
  
  Two months before then, Jon and Katelyn are marrying – on August 11th.
  
  
  
  (Photo by Josh)
  
  Neither wedding is local, but we are really looking forward
  to being part of their celebrations.
  
  And, this always makes me happy:
  
  
  
  

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