Thanksgiving photos

my beautiful cousins, meg and kate, who are more like my sisters than cousins
Me and Kate
Reid
me and my little cousin Meg

Egg Bowl 2005

real vs. fake

For the past couple of years, I have worn a fake pair of diamond earrings. I thought that they looked a little bit like the real thing. In fact, a few people have even asked me if they were real, and I have always told them the truth. Recently, I inherited my grandmother's real diamond earrings that are about the same size as the fakes. As I held up the real ones to the fake ones, I could see that they were incomparable.

That got me thinking about our Christian lives. With nothing to compare our lives to, no one can see that some of us are living a fake Christian life. It's only when we get a closer look at people do we see the gross difference between real vs. fake.

"Whatever happens, conduct yourselves in a manner that is worthy of the gospel of Christ...." (Phil. 1:27) That verse kept ringing in my head. Whatever happens. If we try to conduct ourselves in a real and genuine way, no one will accuse us of being fake.

the oregon crew

i found this picture on the facebook that the gold-card carrier took when we were in the pacific northwest three years ago. what a fun trip that was. if only i had not gotten altitude sickness.

what were you doing at age 18?

an 18 year old was recently elected mayor of a michigan town. when i was 18, i was a counselor at summer camp.

. . . fellow laborer in the gospel of Christ . . .

I'm going through the Oswald Chambers devotional "my Utmost for His Highest" and today's lesson really spoke to me. It talks about how if we have our own interests at heart instead of God's, we cannot be aligned with God's interest. Click on icon to read the whole article.

toilet humor

No way this happened twice