A guessing game about Isaac

Here is the challenge. Answer the following question if you can.

Why did my 2 years and 4 month old Isaac find a clothes hanger on the ground and say, "Look Dada a mystery."?

I think I know the answer. You may get a hint from an earlier post. Please put guesses as a comment. If I have previously discussed this with you, then clearly you should not guess.

What do you do when you are having difficulty in your life? When faced with difficult times, it seems that often we look inside ourselves for strength and patience. “Can’t you just leave me alone so I can think?” is often our response to people wanting to help us when we have a difficult question to answer. As the church we have a responsibility to help encourage one another and pray for one another, especially when there are troubles or hard times. We should go to our fellow members of the Church body to ask them for prayer when it is needed. Don’t be caught in the trap of trying to rely on your own strength or wisdom in making it through hard times.

Daniel 2: 17-19
17 Then Daniel returned to his house and explained the matter to his friends Hananiah, Mishael and Azariah. 18 He urged them to plead for mercy from the God of heaven concerning this mystery, so that he and his friends might not be executed with the rest of the wise men of Babylon. 19 During the night the mystery was revealed to Daniel in a vision. Then Daniel praised the God of heaven

Only 2 Readers

Judging by my latest poll, I have only two readers of my blog. Luckily, they both seem to be glad I am back in the blogging world. I spent much of the afternoon playing Guitar Hero and Dance Dance Revolution. Since it is graduation weekend (from high school) for two of my neighbors, I feel this is a great way to remember my youth. Though I did not have either of those games. I suppose I could really remember my youth, and go eat a whole frozen pizza. Instead I will enjoy the fruits of adulthood and eat food off a grill.

I think Isaac may have watched to much TV

I walked through the kitchen the other day, and Isaac was sitting next to a cup with a dinosaur on it. He went through the following discussion with himself.

"If you see a dinosaur, say dinosaur."
"I see a dinosaur."
"You see a dinosaur? Where?"
"Right! There's the dinosaur."

He also somtimes yells for help... in spanish.
"¡Ayúdeme!"

June 11

So we can run off a list of things we should do and not do. We might start with the Ten Commandments, or we might start with a different list from memory. We might say, “Love your neighbor as yourself.” We might then ask, “Why should we do these good things and avoid the bad things?” For that we might also run off a few answers. The reason that I want to mention today is one that I was reminded of this week. We should do good things and push away son because we are a part of one body together. As a part of that body we provide a representation of how people are going to judge the rest of the body. If I go to work with hair that has not been combed, then people are going to make judgments about me based on what they have noticed. If I go into a store I steal a pack of gum with my right hand and someone watches me, then they make a judgment about the rest of me based on the action of my right hand. Nobody would see that and say that I just must have a bad hand. So we should strive to do good works, and push away evil. Our actions reflect on the rest of the Body of Christ.

Ephesians 4:25
25Therefore each of you must put off falsehood and speak truthfully to his neighbor, for we are all members of one body.

A commute by any other name...

As I am avoiding my commute to let Amanda sleep for a few more minutes, it can't be helped but to ponder the amount of time I am about to spend in the car. At this time of day it will probably be close to 1 hour. If I had left 1 hour earlier, it would likely of been 1.5 hours. The interesting thing is that yesterday Amanda rode with me to work and came back to pick me up. You might think this seems like a real wast of time. It turned out, that the total amount of time Amanda spent in the car was almost the same as a commute by myself. HOV priveleges help a bunch. Alas, today I will be driving alone. We have a tentative plan to ride together next Tuesday.

An Early Sunday Morning Run

Running on Sunday morning before church (The 7.2 mile loop). I am sure that must break some rule about the Sabbath (just kidding of course). If it did, then I am sure that many church plants around the world will be "breaking the rules" as they spend significant time and effort to get services set up to be held in movie theaters, schools, parks, hotels, homes, community centers, and I am sure many other places. So, good morning church plants everywhere. I hope your set up goes smooth today.