This weekend I will travel to Sioux Falls, SD to bring my wife (Brenda), our daughter (Ashley), and our grand-daughter (Mya Grace) to Arkansas. Since my move to FBC, Arkadelphia, AR the family has remained in Sioux Falls in order to sell our home. Selling has not gone as quickly as we hoped, so the family is coming here. The house will have to sell without us present. I can hardly wait to have our family back together again. Well, almost together. Our son, Chris, is in the military (California) and will be deployed to Iraq this summer. But that's another story.
One of the happy adjustments my family will make is to the warmer climate in Arkansas. I think it will hardly be an adjustment...but a shout of joy! These days have been absolutely beautiful. Trees are beginning to bud and the early spring flowers are already bursting forth. This is truly one of my favorite times of the year. New life in the warmth of sunshine, fed by gentle rains, declares the robust joy God has in the world. And our joy too!
I believe God is not necessarily "known" to us in the beauty of nature. But once we have come to know God through the revelation of his Son, Jesus Christ, then we are prepared to "know" God in the variety of ways our senses are inspired. Karl Barth, the noted Swiss theologian, was once asked in what ways God made himself known to the world. Barth replied that since God was God, God could choose to speak to us any way God chose: from a Mozart concerto to a dead dog. But the primary revelation is Jesus Christ himself. For in him, the fullness of God dwelt. That's sound thinking--and the foundation for all of Christian faith.
God is at work all around. I hope you have opportunity to see and to say thanks!
Talk later.
lm
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Didja get to see the blizzard you missed in your years here?
Scott, yes I did. But not as I had intended, standing by the fireplace looking out at it, but rather driving through the middle of it! Twarn't fun.
LM
Ah, but it does make men out of us, does it not? Nothing like gripping the wheel as you lean over it squinting to see the icy, snow covered road before you! Indeed, tis' a beautiful thing!
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