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A Quiet Moment

Dec. 14th, that was my last post here.  Since then life has been a whirlwind.  My time has been filled with processing Ethiopian pictures for GGI, trying to keep a thousand fingers on the ordained chaos of what God is doing at New City, traveling to see family, dealing with mentally unstable kids, getting rid of 6 kittens, and doing all that a husband, father, employee is supposed to do.  My primary means of checking email has become my iPhone because I have such little time to sit in front of my computer.  I have been recording blog posts on my iPhone voice recorder because I haven’t had a moment to actually type them out.  Life has been crazy.

Shhh.

I have a moment of quiet.  The kids are playing the Wii together.  Jennifer and our two oldest girls are at a friends house for a sleepover.  The animals are fed and not barking and meowing at me.  It’s quiet.

Today, today I’m remembering the empty manger and the empty cross.  Today I am remembering that while I was God’s hated enemy He sent His Son to be humbly born in human flesh, to experience all the weakness that it means to be human, to live a hard joy filled life without sinning, and then to die for me and my sin.

Take a quiet moment today and remember the empty manger and remember the empty cross.

For the word of the cross is folly to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.
~ 1 Corinthians 1:18

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