November 2, 2007

• Hello all.
  
  Wow — November already.  In some ways it seems this year flew by – but when I think back to all that has gone on in the last 10 months — it seems forever ago.
  
  We went on a really fun field trip yesterday.  It was to this place in Irvine.  It has this free balloon ride.  The balloon takes 25 people at a time.  It is tethered and goes up 500 feet and back down – takes about 10 minutes.  On a clear day, they say, you can see 25 miles… not so clear yesterday, but still spectacular.
  

  
  

  

  Waiting to go up…
  

  
  
  
  That’s the first of our group to go up.

  
  Aleia and I

  

  

  

  
  
  Normally I’m become very afraid of any type of height thing.  But this was a piece of cake!!! Very fun. I’d do it again in a minute.  Although, when it comes back down, it paused before it landed.  It sways back and forth before it settles… I made the mistake of look down through the middle when it was doing that — got really “car sick”.  It never really left me the for the rest of the day.

  Here are some pictures of Ellie being tricky…

  

  

  This is Val and Hannah J. They had to make bread for Biology class.
  

  

  My MIL’s birthday was this last week.  She wanted us to go to the Octoberfest.  It was interesting, to say the least.  There was this one act that performed.  These are really lousy pictures because they are taken from my camera phone.  However, these women (twins) were amazing.  They must have been in their late 70′s.  I’ve never seen anything like that.  Impressive!

  

  

  

  The whole time they were preforming, we all were like, “no way!!!!” Pretty amazing.

  Here are some just random picture of Julie and Grace — not my babies any more! They’re growin’ up and fast.
  

  

  

  Lastly, I have been thinking about this picture a lot in correlation to life in general.
  

  

  Again, it’s just an amazing picture as I comment on in my last post.

  So many things come to my mind when I look at it.

  Sometimes I look at it and it reminds me of how my sin looks to me:  huge, overwhelming, seeming impossible to conquer.  Then, looking at the firefighter fearlessly approaching the fire – in this picture almost seems to lean into it – and I reminded that no matter what my sin looks like, I will have victory over it because God has given me everything pertaining to life and godliness though the death of Christ and the Holy Spirit’s sanctifying work in my life.   I can face the fire and triumph over sin.

  Sometimes I look at it and it reminds me of fear, how overwhelming some situation seem to be for me: maybe financial, or health, etc.  That fear (sin), again looks so huge, overwhelming, seemingly impossible situations.  Then again looking at the firefighter, I am reminded that armed with the Word of God I can have peace and strength in any situation.  I can take those fearful thoughts captive, press forward, and triumph over sin.

  ~Di
  

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