~Rachel and Family~: Dec 5, 2010

Sunday, December 5, 2010

Another Way to See Things...

Notice anything different? David has a new way of seeing things.

He got contacts.

Paul took him and Ann to Costco for an eye "inspection" (that's what Ann calls it).

After Hannah, Mary and I took Elijah to a far away birthday party, we all met up at Denny's. David walked in without his glasses and one very red eye, apparently the eye that he was practicing on.

Paul also surprised me with an early Christmas gift, right in the middle of Denny's ;)
He knows I've always wanted a nice cross necklace. This one is beautiful. (I don't think the picture does it justice.) This gift is especially significant to me at this time in my life when I am understanding with more depth about my own need to be crucified with Christ.

*And then the boys bought each of their sisters a necklace with their own money at a Bazaar yesterday that our Women's Auxillary put on. So us girls all turned out with some fine necklaces this weekend. That really blessed my heart.

Watching David remove his contacts. (Everything always seems to turn into a family affair.)

This took almost half an hour, but he'll get more practice and be able to whip them in and out.

And oh yeah, David won his Middle School Spelling Bee! That is his second one this year. We're very proud, but I always tell him even if he were the worst speller ever, I'd love him just as much. I don't want to raise a bunch of Pharisees who replace love with works.

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Love the LORD Your God. These are the commands, decrees and laws the LORD your God directed me to teach you to observe in the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess, so that you, your children and their children after them may fear the LORD your God as long as you live by keeping all his decrees and commands that I give you, and so that you may enjoy long life. Hear, O Israel, and be careful to obey so that it may go well with you and that you may increase greatly in a land flowing with milk and honey, just as the LORD, the God of your fathers, promised you.
Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one. Love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. These commandments that I give you today are to be upon your hearts. Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates.
When the LORD your God brings you into the land he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, to give you—a land with large, flourishing cities you did not build, houses filled with all kinds of good things you did not provide, wells you did not dig, and vineyards and olive groves you did not plant—then when you eat and are satisfied, be careful that you do not forget the LORD, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery.
Fear the LORD your God, serve him only and take your oaths in his name. Do not follow other gods, the gods of the peoples around you; for the LORD your God, who is among you, is a jealous God and his anger will burn against you, and he will destroy you from the face of the land. Do not test the LORD your God as you did at Massah. Be sure to keep the commands of the LORD your God and the stipulations and decrees he has given you. Do what is right and good in the LORD's sight, so that it may go well with you and you may go in and take over the good land that the LORD promised on oath to your forefathers, thrusting out all your enemies before you, as the LORD said.
In the future, when your son asks you, "What is the meaning of the stipulations, decrees and laws the LORD our God has commanded you?" tell him: "We were slaves of Pharaoh in Egypt, but the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand. Before our eyes the LORD sent miraculous signs and wonders—great and terrible—upon Egypt and Pharaoh and his whole household. But he brought us out from there to bring us in and give us the land that he promised on oath to our forefathers. The LORD commanded us to obey all these decrees and to fear the LORD our God, so that we might always prosper and be kept alive, as is the case today. And if we are careful to obey all this law before the LORD our God, as he has commanded us, that will be our righteousness."
Deuteronomy 6
-Jehovah God