The Intentional Life

They waited for years, centuries. Waiting for that King to come and rescue them from their oppressors.  From the people who did things contrary to what they had been taught. They sometimes got caught up in the society around them. Fell into the same pit of sin that everyone else around them was wallowing in. But, oh, they were sorry, they repented, they cried out to their God, they pleaded for a King. They kept hoping for Someone to turn things around and lead them into victory.  To be on the winning side. And so a King was sent.  He came to conquer, to reign. But the people, the majority, missed it. And they killed Him. His people thought it was over.  No King = no kingdom. But He had only begun setting up his Kingdom.  He had only begun to reign. ______________ We keep waiting.  Waiting for that right person to come into government.  To rescue us from those who do thing contrary to what we believe. We sometimes (quite often...

Oh, June went fast.  We started the month with a few final days of school, celebrating by going to the zoo and eating ice cream.  The month rolled on with Owen going to basketball camp and led into the next week of all three kiddos attending Vacation Bible School.  We finished the final full week of June with a trip out East.  Our first ever Suvar Party of 5 vacation.  11 hours on the road got us to Williamsburg, VA where we spent a quite splendid week (pics of that trip in a post coming soon). And here we are in July.  One full month left of summer vacation. June filled up fast.  We are hoping for a bit more space between the hours of July, trying to get all we can out of the more slow paced life of summer.  But for the moment, here are the moments of June, presented in picture form:  Owen worked hard all year to get the most points in his grade for Accellerated Reader.  He accomplished just that...and received a medal for ...