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Myles and I decided to take a detour on the way home after Monday's wound care at Salt Lake. His finger wasn't looking any better than on Saturday and the thought of going through all that for nothing was pretty tough. We left SLC on Monday and drove to Montana for some wide open skies. We stayed in a cabin lodge that was right on the Snake River. Watching the fly fisherman from our room was completely awe inspiring and just what the doctor ordered for our soul. We got up at the crack of dawn on Tuesday and spent 12 hours driving around in Yellowstone park in Wyoming. So majestic, so beautiful. We drove home yesterday and were welcomed with open arms by Aaron and Tuyet last night. Twenty four hours of driving in forty eight hours but it was so nice to have something good in our memory to bring home. We met some great new friends from Portland Oregon and are going to keep in touch with them. We changed Myles' bandages last night on his finger and it is looking a little better than Monday. Wound care appointment today in Boise (I am not looking forward to getting back in the car!) and if all continues to heal we will be FLYING back to SLC next week to get the stitches and pin removed.
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God Created All Things
Thursday, July 26, 2007
“By Him all things were created, both in the heavens and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things have been created through Him and for Him.”
Colossians 1:16 NASB
What a phenomenal list! Heavens and earth. Visible and invisible. Thrones, dominions, rulers, and authorities. No thing, place, or person omitted. The scale on the sea urchin. The hair on the elephant hide. The hurricane that wrecks the coast, the rain that nourishes the desert, the infant’s first heartbeat, the elderly person’s final breath—all can be traced back to the hand of Christ, the firstborn of creation.
Firstborn in Paul’s vernacular has nothing to do with birth order. Firstborn refers to order of rank. As one translation states: “He ranks higher than everything that has been made” (v.15 NCV). Everything? Find an exception. Peter’s mother-in-law has a fever: Jesus rebukes it. A tax needs to be paid; Jesus pays it by sending first a coin and then a fisherman’s hook into the mouth of a fish. Jesus…bats an eyelash, and nature jumps.
WOW, sounds like you had a great time. Just spending last month in Yellowstone and the Grand Teton's I'm jealous. AND it is just what the great physician ordered. GOD! I will continue to pray for God's healing grace.
Much love,
Aunt k8
Montana is so beautiful! I love Old Faithful! Everyone says hi and to get well soon! Mom says grilled chesse forever!
Lizzi,Sarah,Logan,Blaine, Gus and Tom Cat
montana is perrty but when you drive through it it is boring! but anywho hows it going? im good ") as always everyone here says hi! when you where in protland you where only 2hours away form nowhere springfield. but it kool ") well ") ya the pics you took look really good and funny! ") oh ya thats kool well talk to you later buddies!
Deirdre
Bending Low
Monday, July 30, 2007
“Every knee will bow to the name of Jesus.”
Philippians 2:9-10
Servants resist stubbornness. Ulrich Zwingli manifested such a spirit. He promoted unity during Europe’s Great Reformation. At one point he found himself at odds with Martin Luther. Zwingli did not know what to do. He found his answer one morning on the side of a Swiss mountain. He watched two goats traversing a narrow path from opposite directions, one ascending, the other descending. At one point the narrow trail prevented them from passing each other. When they saw each other, they backed up and lowered their heads, as though ready to lunge. But then a wonderful thing happened. The ascending goat lay down on the path. The other stepped over his back. The first animal then arose and continued on his climb to the top. Zwingli observed that the goat made it higher because he was willing to bend lower.
Didn’t the same happen to Jesus? “God made his name greater than every other name so that every knee will bow to the name of Jesus.”
WOW, That's how we should all help one another. I love that story! Hope all is well with you Myles, and your surgery is a success. Much prayer continues!
Aunt k8
Tuesday, July 31, 2007
“God will help you overflow with hope in him through the Holy Spirit’s power within you.”
Romans 15:13 TLB
Heaven’s hope does for your world what the sunlight did for my grandmother’s cellar. I owe my love of peach preserves to her. She canned her own and stored them in an underground cellar near her West Texas house. It was a deep hole with wooden steps, plywood walls, and a musty smell. As a youngster I used to climb in, close the door, and see how long I could last in the darkness…I would sit silently, listening to my breath and heartbeats, until I couldn’t take it anymore and then would race up the stairs and throw open the door. Light would avalanche into the cellar. What a change! Moments before I couldn’t see anything—all of a sudden I could see everything.
Just as light poured into the cellar, God’s hope pours into your world. Upon the sick, he shines the ray of healing. To the bereaved, he gives the promise of reunion. To the confused, he offers he offers the light of Scripture.
Myles, I'm sure the sun shines on you daily. God is good. I can see the sparkle in your eyes and know that he surrounds you. HOpe all is going well with you, and you continue to heal. You are loved,
aunt k8
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