Today was the last ballet class of the season - I think. It's the last one before the recital weekend, so there's that. The girls were busy making sure they had their routine in order, this time without the costuming. So much effort goes into make-up and the hair. The hair is the thing Madison will miss the least when summer comes. She is by no means a fan of having her hair in an extreme bun like that on top of her head. The thing is that when we do the recital, it'll be even tighter for a couple days. She'll be really happy that this part is over. Despite the hardship of hair, she's enjoying it quite a bit. And, as stated many times earlier, Mommy is living vicariously through Madison, keenly watching her pirouette and dance about in her tutu. There are moments of grace, although there's still the clunkiness of a elementary students learning the correct form of ballet. The mix of imperfection accompanied by spots of poise and grace... it's a pleasure to watch. And this Sunday, we'll be at the recital once more, watching it from our seats in the auditorium.
This morning, we continued our assault on the front yard with another twenty bags of mulch. That's right: we're addicted to mulch. We've got it spread on the sides and the front, and the yard is really coming along nicely. You have to attack it in the mornings though, as the temperatures have been getting quite warm in the afternoons. Lately, it's been reaching the upper 80's in the afternoon, quite sunny.
We popped by the library to get some more Weird School books - five more, I think. Madison just keeps reading these, so who are we to deny her? She'll have them all read soon enough. The summer reading program is coming soon at the library, so we'll have to find another series of books for her as soon as possible.
Today was Uncle Dave's pre-op, which basically is the set-up for surgery this coming Friday. Hopefully everything will be on the up and up. We've been praying, the three of us, day and night.
Madison has her school yearbook now. The design of it was by students at the school, kids who drew pictures of teachers and administrators. It's certainly a different design. Anyway, Madison has been pouring through the pages, and then taking the other two yearbooks from previous years, and tracing back which classes her friends came from, and seeing their photos from two years ago. Her book is already filled with signatures, which is fun to see - there's a special time for kids to simply get their books signed, so Madison has hers pretty full by now.
So we're starting on a new devotional - one with a space theme to it. It should be a great new one, but Daddy has to get working on it pretty fast in order for it to get printed in time. So he's going to be working on that now, and in the meantime, here's the first entry now. Might as well start pasting those down here as well...
“Come to me, all you who are tired and are carrying heavy loads. I will give you rest.” Matthew 11:28 NIrV
Nobody on earth could lift a 1,400 pound object and toss it around. But astronauts aren't on earth, are they? In 2007, NASA astronaut Clayton Anderson took out the trash. With his feet planted on the space station, he grabbed a 635 kilogram coolant tank and hurled it towards the earth. Don’t worry, it didn’t hit anyone. As expected, the thing burned up as planned in a fiery plunge towards the earth.
It sounds impressive picking up an object that big, doesn’t it? But the truth is, you or I could have done the same exact thing. Orbiting the earth, the laws of weight work a lot differently. Astronauts appear to float around, and there is a feeling of weightlessness.
Wally Schirra, one of the first seven original astronauts, said this: “Feeling weightless . . . it's so many things together. A feeling of pride, of healthy solitude, of dignified freedom from everything that's dirty, sticky. You feel exquisitely comfortable . . . and you feel you have so much energy, such an urge to do things, such an ability to do things. And you work well, yes, you think well, without sweat, without difficulty as if the biblical curse in the sweat of thy face and in sorrow no longer exists, as if you've been born again.”
He was on to something when he spoke of being born again. Sin has a weight. It’s like garbage that doesn’t need to be in our lives. When we do something God is not pleased with, it’s like a weight that is put on our shoulders, keeping us from lifting our eyes towards heaven, and preventing us from doing what He wants us to do. But that’s the thing about Jesus: he took away that weight. He took away that heavy burden – it’s like being weightless. Because of what Jesus did, the curse of sin no longer exists!
The most important thing to do on this planet is to toss that weight aside. Ask Jesus into your heart, keep your feet planted, and feel the burden all gone – tossed aside and burned off, never to be seen again.
This morning, we continued our assault on the front yard with another twenty bags of mulch. That's right: we're addicted to mulch. We've got it spread on the sides and the front, and the yard is really coming along nicely. You have to attack it in the mornings though, as the temperatures have been getting quite warm in the afternoons. Lately, it's been reaching the upper 80's in the afternoon, quite sunny.
We popped by the library to get some more Weird School books - five more, I think. Madison just keeps reading these, so who are we to deny her? She'll have them all read soon enough. The summer reading program is coming soon at the library, so we'll have to find another series of books for her as soon as possible.
Today was Uncle Dave's pre-op, which basically is the set-up for surgery this coming Friday. Hopefully everything will be on the up and up. We've been praying, the three of us, day and night.
Madison has her school yearbook now. The design of it was by students at the school, kids who drew pictures of teachers and administrators. It's certainly a different design. Anyway, Madison has been pouring through the pages, and then taking the other two yearbooks from previous years, and tracing back which classes her friends came from, and seeing their photos from two years ago. Her book is already filled with signatures, which is fun to see - there's a special time for kids to simply get their books signed, so Madison has hers pretty full by now.
So we're starting on a new devotional - one with a space theme to it. It should be a great new one, but Daddy has to get working on it pretty fast in order for it to get printed in time. So he's going to be working on that now, and in the meantime, here's the first entry now. Might as well start pasting those down here as well...
“Come to me, all you who are tired and are carrying heavy loads. I will give you rest.” Matthew 11:28 NIrV
Nobody on earth could lift a 1,400 pound object and toss it around. But astronauts aren't on earth, are they? In 2007, NASA astronaut Clayton Anderson took out the trash. With his feet planted on the space station, he grabbed a 635 kilogram coolant tank and hurled it towards the earth. Don’t worry, it didn’t hit anyone. As expected, the thing burned up as planned in a fiery plunge towards the earth.
It sounds impressive picking up an object that big, doesn’t it? But the truth is, you or I could have done the same exact thing. Orbiting the earth, the laws of weight work a lot differently. Astronauts appear to float around, and there is a feeling of weightlessness.
Wally Schirra, one of the first seven original astronauts, said this: “Feeling weightless . . . it's so many things together. A feeling of pride, of healthy solitude, of dignified freedom from everything that's dirty, sticky. You feel exquisitely comfortable . . . and you feel you have so much energy, such an urge to do things, such an ability to do things. And you work well, yes, you think well, without sweat, without difficulty as if the biblical curse in the sweat of thy face and in sorrow no longer exists, as if you've been born again.”
He was on to something when he spoke of being born again. Sin has a weight. It’s like garbage that doesn’t need to be in our lives. When we do something God is not pleased with, it’s like a weight that is put on our shoulders, keeping us from lifting our eyes towards heaven, and preventing us from doing what He wants us to do. But that’s the thing about Jesus: he took away that weight. He took away that heavy burden – it’s like being weightless. Because of what Jesus did, the curse of sin no longer exists!
The most important thing to do on this planet is to toss that weight aside. Ask Jesus into your heart, keep your feet planted, and feel the burden all gone – tossed aside and burned off, never to be seen again.
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