I write to you from a very windy, frigid, northeast corner of the world. We had a blizzard last night-the first real one since moving to Merrimac - with drifting and blowing snow that produced minimal drifts!!
Caleb was showing me on the globe how our latitude is not that different from Bemidji, MN and so I am thankful for the ocean which warms the air so that we are not in a northern type freezer! Living in below zero temperatures is just not ok (even though we enjoyed our time in Bemidji!).
What is on the menu for today?? I just had a wonderful time in the Psalms. I am working through the Psalms of Ascent with a Beth Moore workbook and it is delightful, of course! A review of how we must plant the Word of God. Yes, we need to consume the Word but we must sew it rather than eat it and then our feast will be from the sheaves and not the seed. That is a little confusing but I am trying to understand that analogy. If we eat the seed, there will be no harvest. It will satisfy our tummys for a few hours but we will get hungry again very soon. However, if we are always sewing the seed and feasting on the harvest, saving and sewing some more seed, our hunger will be satified. Isn't that what God wants? He desires to satisfy our hunger so we must sew in order to reap. I love thinking through things from the Word in new and interesting ways.
When one grows up with the Bible and all the stories as part of everyday life, it is good to dig in for oneself and learn to observe, interpret and apply to the reality of our generation.
I am hoping to go cross-county skiing today! I am so excited but it is freezing out there. The sun is shining so hopefully it will warm up and we will have a wonderful outing! Dave and the boys will be watching college football. Ally has basketball practice and then she will probably have friends around - that is the norm.
Happy New Year!
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