Ok. Time to post something.
My husband said he would de-link me if I didn’t post something soon. 🙂
It’s not that I don’t like blogging. I just seem to have got caught up in other things and this fell to the wayside.
What’s new?
I had a really good Christmas. 12 days off work. Stayed home with my family for the most part. Got lots of cool gifts. Played with my boys. Brought ‘order’ to the storage room (I can find my treadmill again). It’s always hard going back to work after being home. My heart is with my family. I love being with them.
But my work is really good, too. Over and over again I get the sense that I am truly valued and appreciated for what I do, and that goes a long, long way. It’s a very good company to work for.
Been thinking about ‘grace’ a lot over the past few months. What exactly is grace? Why can’t I seem to ‘get it’? I still function so much as if I have to earn everything I get. Grace isn’t like that. It’s a free gift. I’m reading ‘The Ragamuffin Gospel’. It’s really good, but I think I’ll need to read it over a few times for the truth of it to really sink it. I know it will be very liberating when I finally ‘get’ this piece.
I’ve also been thinking about the message of the cross. What is at the heart of the gospel? Is that what we truly proclaim and live out? I’m realizing that the message of grace and the message of the gospel are closely intertwined. I think we crowd the message in with a lot of extraneous things that take away from the truth and simplicity of it.
My kids got a PS2 for Christmas. My husband bought Grand Turismo 4. I’m hooked. My husband has many many more hours of experience than I have. The first night we played, I was awful. Could barely keep the car on the road. My husband took a car with much less horsepower than mine and he was still beating me. Finally, I won a race. But then I paused and asked him if he had ‘let’ me win the race. …Silence. Then I asked him if he had been trying to ‘let’ me win the other races I had lost. …Silence again. I suck!!! But I’ve been playing it more now (and winning more races). My husband is still driving cars with less horsepower than me, but he’s slowing evening the odds in terms of horsepower. But I’m addicted to this thing. All I can think about is racing and getting better.
Gotta go finish supper…
lol, sounds like something my hubby would do (let me win a race). Those new racing games games seem so much harder to keep the cars on the road, I’d like to stick to my old school mario kart thank you.
Good to hear your christmas was well, David and Matthew must be psyched about the PS2.
My hubby bought me Crash Bandicoot, that’s the addicting one for me 🙂
Please coninue to share as you seek God’s heart. Would like to hear more about grace and the cross, and what you’re learning. I too find so many times than not, that I rely so quickly on myself, instead of going to the cross and soaking up the gift of His grace.
Bless you as you’re back at work, hope it’s not too much of a shock to your system.
-Nin