Here and There

As you can tell, I haven’t been us “up” on my blogging as usual, but it’s because we haven’t been home! Dan and I had the privilege of being parents for a day and night for two of our youth group kids – loved it! We played mini-golf, played TTR (that is Ticket to Ride) 5 times, played badminton, watched Cheaper By The Dozen, and ate frozen pizza. Talk about a good time! We have done this before (not with these kids), but we always have a blast! We are now dogsitting, so we just haven’t been home much these week! This is our life – we are okay with it and this is who we are. Though today, for about 15 minutes, it was just me and Dan (and nothing else going on) and I almost didn’t know what to talk about because we haven’t really “seen” each other in a while. We’ve been together, but we are so used to it being just us two and talking about stuff right when it comes to mind. So I felt like for 15 minutes, when I actually had the opportunity, I didn’t even know what to say! Random, but when Dan went to Alaska on a mission trip, he came home, we sat down for lunch (or what I call DINNER, Dan :)), and we sat in silence. He had no clue where to begin to tell me about the amazing trip he had. Do you ever feel that way?

Our life is blessed! Busy and blessed. We truly love our life. For some I know it sounds utterly crazy and you wonder if we even enjoy it, but we do! We are so spontaneous and for those who hang out with us, you know that is true! We can make plans in 5 minutes and be somewhere – we love that. We find the idea of sitting in an office boring, so that is why God has blessed us with what we do! It’s not for everyone, and that is why he created those who excel in offices. We totally need those people! We are just not two of them.

Random: today at Banner, I had to check my grace radar. I had a woman come in telling me how the NIV Bible is all we need – we don’t need new Bibles. The one we have is perfect and why write new Bibles? She doesn’t like it when people change the Bible since it is God’s Word (referring to only the NIV). My grace-o-meter was rising to the red at that point. Why? Because unless you can read Greek and Hebrew my friend, you are reading a translation. I say that with grace in knowing that not everyone knows that. But when you preach to me in saying that the NIV is basically the only word of God, I struggle. Though I tend to read the NIV myself, I will be the first to admit that it is a translation and that unless I can read Greek or Hebrew, I will never understand the “original” version. I just find the discussion of translations of the Bible to be “unhealthy controversies” (1 Tim. I think it talks about that). You can make great points for most translations and I feel God does not want us arguing over HIS WORD. To tell me that THIS or THAT translation is THE only “Bible” out there, I really struggle. That is just an inner conviction of mine. I kept my mouth shut and just prayed. After my conversations with that woman, I prayed that God would give me understanding and that I would not judge her for her ignorance. Thank goodness God has given ME that same grace that I so desperately need!

Yup, a random posting, but that is what our life has been as of late :)!