Friday, July 15, 2011

Branson was TOTALY AWESOME!!! We got to see some CO friends and ride roller coasters and water slides and eat and talk and all that kind of stuff you do at Silver Dollar City. SO FUN!!!
Yesterday I got to go sew with Mrs. Hartsfield. She's sooo sweet. She taught me how to make this adorable little bag, and then she took me out to sonic! Thankyou!!

I'm reading in lamentations, and I think it's really neat that God loves them so much, yet he's willing to nearly completely obliterate them, and them build them back up to serve him, over and over and over.

Thursday, July 7, 2011

God Is Love

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

When I say or think God is love, I think he's very loving. but it goes way beyond that. Love made him perfect. Dad told us about a test you can take that came out of book called Crazy Love. He said take the passage above, and replace the word love with your name:

I am patient, I am kind. I do not envy....

He said eventually you'll start to feel like a liar. He's right. Ok, Now fill in all the loves with God's name.

God is patient, God is kind. He does not envy.....

That sounds a lot better.

If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing.

God had love. He was perfect in every way.

Tuesday, July 5, 2011

Ammon, Moab, Philistia, Egypt, and even Babylon, are all gonna get wiped out. And guess who's the messenger? Jeremiah. What I think is pretty cool is that the Israelites are in exile right now, and Jeremiah is an Israelite, but he's still going out to all these places. God really takes care of him.