I made a short trip to the capital and got to make a mini snowmen! The only thing I miss in our new home is eating snow and playing in it but I am thankful for the opportunity God gave me to do that this year.
Saturday, April 2, 2016
Babysitting
This is Oregano and Cumin. Their names are Keykik and Kimyon in Turkish and they are much cuter. We looked after them for a few weeks and then gave them to a friend who also has chickens.
For the best gramma in the world!
I think they turned out pretty good for my first pair. My gramma loved them!
Look who came to visit us!
Sometimes the shepherds bring their goats and sheep to graze in the field next to our house so we get to hold the brand new babies!
Friday, March 11, 2016
Thoughts from Numbers
I started reading the Bible from the beginning this year, not reading every verse, but looking for God’s “story” and people’s relationship with Him. I’m in the middle of Numbers and it is incredible how much the Israelites complained! They saw God part the Red Sea, kill their enemies and lead them with towers of smoke and fire and they’re like, “Let’s go back to Egypt where we were slaves and God never even spoke to us”
And then their leaders go up on the mountain and eat and drink with God and even SEE HIS FACE and then they come back down and make a statue of a cow and worship it. That is NOT what they saw when they were in heaven! How can one forget so easily who God is?
Every chance they get, they tell God they wish He would have left them in Egypt. They complain about the miracle food God sends. They complain when there is no water. If God hadn’t intervened by showing His glory once again they would have stoned Caleb and Joshua just for saying, “We can take this land that God has promised us!"
They get so mixed up that they go so far as to call Egypt, the land of slavery, the “land flowing with milk and honey” instead of the promised land which they have never even set foot on and don’t even know what they are missing!
God is truly patient and forgiving. I”m a complainer too. And how often to I act like a life of sin is better than what God has promised in Christ and in our reward to come.
And then their leaders go up on the mountain and eat and drink with God and even SEE HIS FACE and then they come back down and make a statue of a cow and worship it. That is NOT what they saw when they were in heaven! How can one forget so easily who God is?
Every chance they get, they tell God they wish He would have left them in Egypt. They complain about the miracle food God sends. They complain when there is no water. If God hadn’t intervened by showing His glory once again they would have stoned Caleb and Joshua just for saying, “We can take this land that God has promised us!"
They get so mixed up that they go so far as to call Egypt, the land of slavery, the “land flowing with milk and honey” instead of the promised land which they have never even set foot on and don’t even know what they are missing!
God is truly patient and forgiving. I”m a complainer too. And how often to I act like a life of sin is better than what God has promised in Christ and in our reward to come.
Tuesday, February 16, 2016
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