Planting seeds!

Today I went for a bike ride/witness time. It was great to do. Praise God people were out so I could talk with them. You can read what happened over here. If you so desire to.

But if you don't desire to, you can read something here about my awesomest Christmasest everest. Do whatever you like. You can read one or the other, or, if you are daring, both. Feel free to spend your time how you want to. [Thinking of that. You don't know if the person you'll see in the grocery next week will live out the day. They could die in the night. Matter-of-fact YOU don't know if you'll live through the night. Don't you think it'd be a good idea to make sure that person at the grocery is going to heaven before they die before you die? It's a scary thought, and it should be. You don' t know if either of you are going to live another 24 hours. So why don't you make the best of it by spending your time wisely while making sure they're safe.] Whoa, that was quite the little blip. I wonder where that came from.

The Awesomest Christmasest Everest.
This Christmas we headed on over to my brother's new in-laws, the Biddingers. We had a great time playing games, opening presents, eating, wrestling (more details later), snacking, taking walks, doing JJ's paper route, reading the scripture, chewing gum (I didn't actually), and many other greatly fun things. We left fairly early on Thursday and and returned on Sunday night. The older children who are normally in college were there for Christmas and all. So that was a lot of fun. We ate lots of great food and enjoyed being family.
About the wrestling. It was terrible. I was horribly beaten when Andrew was holding me and crushing me and all sorts of awful stuff. My elbows still hurt from all of the painful carpet burns I got. I didn't do very good wrestling. Wait!! Excuse me. My mistake. I did awesome wrestling! I really showed Andrew who was boss. Haha! I beat him so stinkin' bad that he was forced to cling to worser things. He started pulling my hair, biting, spitting, pinching, tickling, and a bunch of other stuff. Man I beat him! Wow that was good. I can still show you the battle wounds from how fierce I was (on my elbows).
We also had church at their house. I was largely responsible for that, of course. I eloquently convinced the parents to offer the Biddenger home for church. And they fell for it! I put a lot in about how suffering is good and all great things that have happened have also had many hardships and seemingly important excuses. I told them the whole "All great triumphs have had great trials." bit. It worked out great. At first I didn't think I could pull it off, but, Praise God, they decided to have church. So some other families came and we had a great time singing praises and reading the Bible. I didn't have my accordion, so I was forced to sing the whole time (which was good).
Now I don't know, but I would presume that JJ will soon post about the Christmas time. He likes doing that kind of stuff. So you may be able to read more and see pictures.

I might also add that along with an awesome shark from Andrew and a sweet set of markers from JJ I also got a very nice Scofield study Bible and a great baseball glove (actually a softball glove, but that sounds like a softy and you know what I mean).

I hope you all had as great a Christmas as mine, but I know you didn't. So, God bless!

Every day is Christmas!

Everybody wins!
Well, not everybody, of course. But I did win NaNoWriMo along with a boatload of other people. It was pretty tough getting 50,000 words into November, but it worked out in the end. I'll probably post some stories here after I edit them (which reminds me, I should probably start editing.) I wrote about five short stories dealing with my past hurts that I still have grudges about. Just kidding. They are basically about abnormal events happening to people with spiritual reasons and messages at the end.

There is a lot to be thinking about spiritually. I'll give a short synopsis on my thought-life:

• Praying with out ceasing is something the Bible tells us to do (1Thes 5:17). It is not very often I get to that point. Lord help me grow closer.
• "Every Christian is either a missionary or an impostor." ~Charles Spurgeon. I've been reading in One Thing You Can't Do In Heaven about evangelism. It's been awhile since I've gotten out there and witnessed; tonight I might be able to!
• I read a short book, Music, Does It Make Any Difference?, it was written in 1970 and had some funny words. Instead of bands and songs it was combos and numbers. It told some interesting facts and ideas about music and how it relates to the Bible.
• I've been thinking about the verse about seeing through a glass, darkly (1Cor 13:12). If we did try to understand everything in the world we could end up in a real bind. Imagine how hard some things would be to think through. That may be why God had mercy and didn't tell us everything by writing it in the Bible. Unsaved people have a very hard time explaining some things, but we have this little supernatural God box that we can put those mind-wrenching mysteries into. It brings peace.

I will try to get a story up soon. I may put it in sections. We'll see.

God bless and goodbye!