Hand and feet

Time is flying along ... these little hands and feet of Callie are proof. They still look so little in these pictures, but when she's running with her feet and eating (and beating her siblings) with her hands, she seems so big.

Time is flying.

I just don't get it ...

This morning in church we went through multiple passages in Matthew, following Jesus' teachings to the disciples about glory to come, heaven, etc. ... always followed by His reminder that His suffering and death was to come. The disciples JUST DIDN'T GET IT. They thought the path to glory was power and authority, sitting beside Jesus on the throne, watching Him physically overcome the world right then. Jesus repeatedly told them that the path to glory was suffering and death. He kept giving them the pieces to the Kingdom puzzle, but God's kingdom is upside down and inside out from the world's idea of glory. They STILL didn't get it ... all the way to the end. Even after He was crucified, they didn't get it - it seemed that all had unraveled. Everything they expected had come tumbling down.

Until the resurrection - that glorious resurrection - when all the pieces of the puzzle He had handed them fell neatly into place and they finally understood. They saw the picture. THEY GOT IT! Do you get it? Do I get it? Do we really, really understand that God's economy is one of serving, giving, suffering, offering ... not the taking, striving, working our plan A, B, C, D etc., that the world tells us is the right side up way?

If I choose to buy into His "upside down" world it will cost. Me for sure, and perhaps those I love. But in the light of eternity, upside down and inside out look pretty right side up come Easter morning! May all of my days start with a resurrection morning!

A Truck Wash ... and Collateral Damage

Mason came over for Truck Washing 101 - a lesson from Papa. Surprisingly neither of them got soaked! He absolutely LOVES Papa's truck ... he was so excited to help wash it he was literally dancing!

Later he was playing on the deck, and his daddy stopped over. I was inside, but heard J belly-laughing so I poked my head out and asked what happened. Well, Mason broke the rain gauge. When J asked him how it happened he said, "I DUNNO! My hands are JUST SO STRONG!"

A little later he was getting the placemats out of the deacons bench for dinner (one of his favorite "nini and papa" things, choosing everyone's placemats for the meal). He had to move a flower arrangement and a picture to get to them ...

... I heard a crunch, and a "I fink I bwoke somefing." Hmmm. He's worth it, though, totally, I promise!