Two camping trips in one week; its not hunting or a mountain fix, but for now it will do.
Last week I took the boys on their first camping trip. We went to Dinosaur Valley State Park on Monday and Tuesday. Dinosaur Valley is one of my favorite places for a short get away. Unfortunately, it rained just about the whole time and we didn't get to do everything I was hoping we would. But the boys handled it really well. They made the best of the situation. They did not complain. They followed instructions.
We had a fun time and I was extremely proud of them. God willing we will hopefully be able to camp together more in the future.
Then, last Saturday and Sunday I took my Sunday school class camping. The main point of the trip was to go see The Promise in Glen Rose. I thought those guys would enjoy camping so I made that part of the trip too. We camped in tents at Riverbend Retreat Center. The weather was perfect. The kids were pretty good. We had fun.
It had been a long time since I had gotten outside and it was good to spend several days in the country. If you live in the central Texas area or the Dallas/Ft. Worth area, I highly recommend Dinosaur Valley and The Promise. Check them out, you'll be glad you did.
Thursday, October 22, 2009
Friday, October 2, 2009
Happy Anniversary
Hey, today is the two year anniversary of this blog. The first entry is here.
Meanwhile Facebook and Twitter seem to have taken over a lot of people's screen time so there's less time for blog reading. But there are still a whole bunch of good blogs around.
Its been a crazy two years. We've seen economic catastrophe and political catastrophe with the election of a president who goes around apologizing for his nation being great and liberal legislators trying to re-engineer our society into something bordering on socialism. Every day the news is filled with stories of unbelievable human depravity such that nothing seems to shock us anymore.
Kris has gone from a Claymaniac to a Jonas Momma. She's had to give up some of her Stampin' Up time to take a part time job. The boys are really growing up, doing well in school and they seem to be growing spiritually. Blake and I are finally seeing a little spark of growth in the youth ministry.
Lately I've been trying to figure out why primarily spiritual beings have to spend a blip on the eternal radar screen trapped in a material world. We're forced to live in two realities at once. We're constantly pulled in two opposite directions. We spend tremendous amounts of time, energy, and resources to satisfy our material needs and wants when we should be storing up treasures in Heaven. Why are we given this struggle? Why is it so easy to give ourselves to the material world at the expense of the spiritual?
Makes you really appreciate Enoch doesn't it. Genesis 5:24 says, "Enoch walked with God; then he was no more, because God took him away." Apparently Enoch was so given over to the spiritual rather than the material that God translated him directly into Heaven. Isn't that cool? He must have been something.
The Enoch challenge: depend less and less on the material and more and more on the spiritual. Any takers?
Meanwhile Facebook and Twitter seem to have taken over a lot of people's screen time so there's less time for blog reading. But there are still a whole bunch of good blogs around.
Its been a crazy two years. We've seen economic catastrophe and political catastrophe with the election of a president who goes around apologizing for his nation being great and liberal legislators trying to re-engineer our society into something bordering on socialism. Every day the news is filled with stories of unbelievable human depravity such that nothing seems to shock us anymore.
Kris has gone from a Claymaniac to a Jonas Momma. She's had to give up some of her Stampin' Up time to take a part time job. The boys are really growing up, doing well in school and they seem to be growing spiritually. Blake and I are finally seeing a little spark of growth in the youth ministry.
Lately I've been trying to figure out why primarily spiritual beings have to spend a blip on the eternal radar screen trapped in a material world. We're forced to live in two realities at once. We're constantly pulled in two opposite directions. We spend tremendous amounts of time, energy, and resources to satisfy our material needs and wants when we should be storing up treasures in Heaven. Why are we given this struggle? Why is it so easy to give ourselves to the material world at the expense of the spiritual?
Makes you really appreciate Enoch doesn't it. Genesis 5:24 says, "Enoch walked with God; then he was no more, because God took him away." Apparently Enoch was so given over to the spiritual rather than the material that God translated him directly into Heaven. Isn't that cool? He must have been something.
The Enoch challenge: depend less and less on the material and more and more on the spiritual. Any takers?
A Prediction
Someday society will mine landfills for resources such as metals and organic matter.
"Sounds like a great job for our great grandchildren," he said facetiously.
"Sounds like a great job for our great grandchildren," he said facetiously.
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