Sort of.
I decided to begin a small family devotion time for me and the 4 family members we already have out here. I am still working on the strategy for starting the new church, but they have not had a church to go to for a while and I wanted us to have something.
It was more like a small group than a church service, but we all got a lot out of it. I started off with the following questions (which I put on pieces of paper in a cowboy hat). We all answered two of them, with everybody else getting to add there own answers if they wanted to.
The time I felt closest to God was…
The time I felt the farthest from God was…
If I could ask God one question it would be…
I feel encouraged when…
My favorite book/verse/story from the Bible is…
My least favorite book/verse/story from the Bible is…
I feel discouraged when…
The kind of person in Charlestown that I can’t wait to see in our church is…
The kinds of person in Charlestown that will be hard for me to have in our new church is…
My favorite way to express my worship to God is...
We then went on to talk read about the first passover from Exodus, the Last supper from Luke, and we had communion.
It was a sweet beginning. We will likely invite other people to join us in the coming weeks, and might move it to Saturday evenings. We will see how it all pans out.
Now for my new friend. Here is his picture:
For those of you who have never been out of Santa Rosa, he is a snow brush and ice scraper combo. Very handy guy to have around.
By the way, did you know that you can get a ticket for driving with several inches of snow on your roof? I don't know from experience, but I have seen the reason for this first hand. I saw a guy put on his breaks a little at an intersection and all of the snow on his roof cascaded down on to his windshield. He was totally blinded for a bit. This can happen to a car in back of you when you step on the gas too.
Mr Snow brush is indeed a good friend.
Oh - where is my snow brush? Oh - WHERE is my snow brush? Oh - where, oh where oh where oh where oh where oh where o where o where o where... is my snow brush?
ReplyDeletewell, you know, people were gravely injured before the law was created and it wasn't only the snow, it was really because of ice. a NH woman died few years back because of ice falling of a vehicle and her family petitioned for a law to be enacted to protect others from the same fate their daughter suffered.
ReplyDeleteJust like God's laws, good laws are there to protect us from our foolishness and stupidity. Common sense tells you not to drive with tons of snow on your roof, and, as I have seen, covering the rear window; without lights when it rains or is foggy, etc. If we were wiser, we would not need laws.
ReplyDeleteOf course, with Jesus in our hearts, we don't need God's laws; we are alive in Christ, He lives in us, and live out His will, which is in perfect harmony with the law.