June 9, 2008
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I’m busily packing for camping. We leave on Thursday, just for two nights. It’s with our homeschool group, and we are all looking forward to it!
Our pastor has started the long journey on Sundays through Romans. It has been good. We are currently on Romans 1:16-17.
He brought up some good points to think about this last week. I’m paraphrasing off of my notes… so this may not be exactly what he said but what I understood him to say.
He said that sin is a faith “disorder” — meaning that sin is not a matter of unbelief, that is, not believing in anything, rather it’s believing in the wrong thing. Our circumstances sometimes look to us as though what God promises us will never come true, so we reject God and do our own thing (like the Israelites after they left Egypt). So we sin because we choose to believe in the wrong thing (usually what we think is best, rather than submitting to the will of God in our situations).So we need to ask ourselves when we are tempted to sin: What is it that I am believing in that isn’t true?
He also talked about Truth needing to be received by faith. He said sometimes we will say that we spend time reading the word but it isn’t speaking to us or enlightening us or strengthening us. The problem isn’t that the word isn’t speaking to us (etc), rather that we don’t see (comprehend) what it is saying. Sometimes we must seek for Truth to be found, but once found, it does us no good if it isn’t believed.
He said that we need to be diligently praying and asking ourselves: Am I praying for eyes to see until God give me sight (or am I giving up!)?
Good stuff. Yes, good stuff to ponder.
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This last weekend was our home school’s promotion ceremony. It was really nice. Here are some pics:
This is our highschool worship team.
They lead us in worship of 4 songs during our ceremony.
Gracie plays “Lean on Me”.
Julie does a tap dance with Jessica that they choreographed.
Valerie performs hula.
Elizabeth sings “Oxygen”.
Gracie graduates 5th grade!
Julie graduates 7th grade!
Valerie graduates 9th grade!
Elizabeth graduates 11th grade!Here are some special graduates:
Phoebe and Hannah graduate 8th grade!
Marianne graduates from high school!
Have a good week.
~Di
Comments (6)
Congrates to all your girls on their promotions! Thanks for your comment on my site as well. We are LOVING being back in CA, especially with seeing all the rain IN has gotten the last few days. Not missing the tornado warnings one bit! We got to go down south a few weeks ago and spent some time in Upland, Ontario, and Orange County. That is where we used to live and it was wonderful to fellowship with old friends and feel like we were “home” again. Have a wonderful time camping!
Kristen
And here I am avoiding packing until Thursday (but I am doing laundry). Thanks for posting pictures of my children promoting. (particularly the one of Hannah). Did anyone happen to tape Charlie’s message to Hannah? Looking forward to camping with you all.
Thanks for your encouraging comment. Praying that you’ll lose those last few pounds before your trip.
You are a busy lady. A great mom with talented and beautiful girls. I know you must be happy and proud.
Love,
Fran
wow Dianne so next year you have a senior in highschool!! is that strange to think about?? I hope your camping trip goes well. your girls are beautiful as always it looks like an awesome ceremony!
Thanks so much for sharing those thoughts from your pastor wow they hit home with me!!
HI Diane, hope your well and that the camping trip was good. Miss you here.
HuGs….Linda