Saturday-Sunday with Miss Laura Malloy

Again… good times!! (it was a good weekend)

Laura may have still been in bed when I got there, which was fine with me… we proceeded to spend most of the day dozing, and ‘watching a movie’ (I fell asleep) and listening to trolls, and reading the dumbest book that was put out by the ‘good people’ at eharmony, it’s about finding your soulmate.  This book was bought from the Christian bookstore AND recomends girls kiss guys to see who they are most compatable with.  Ya.. dont buy it for your daughters.

Ate out at the bishop and firkin, the food there is always good, but was of course better because we each got $5 off for filling out a servey!  Yay!

There were good times involving side-walk chalk… here are a coupld of our creations:

 

Church was awesome on Sunday! It was on Psalm 143.  Some points from the service:

- What happens when you feel you need some understanding or some reason from God, but it feelss as if God isn’t talking/moiving working in your life?  Have you ever felt like God has betrayed your trust?  It is a t these times we are put at the crossroas… you can become dehumanized and bitter, or you can embrace God in the midst of your pain and confusinon and become radient in and FOR Him.

- God works through yeilded people who pray.

- Jesus: a man of sorrows familiar with suffering

- There is no pain we encounter that God does not suffer with us in.

- Compasion literally means ‘to suffer with’

- Where is God during these times?  He is in the heart of the suffering, with the suffering.  The Hindus would feel that at these times they are paying off god for past bad karma.  The budist would say during these times you’re are holding something to close/improtant to you and so god is taking it away.  The muslim would say that question is nonsense, god is to great and ultimate to even ask/understand that question.  The athiest would have no point to ask the question at all…. and therefore they all have no hope.

- Without pain we can not reach a cure.

- “I believe that I might know” – Agustine

- 2 Corinthians 9-11:  Indeed, in our hearts we felt the sentence of death.  But this happened that we might not rely on ourselves but on God, who raises the dead.  He has delivered us from such a deadly peril, and he will deliver us.  On him we have set our hope that He will continue to deliver us, as you help us by your prayers.  then many will give thanks on our behalf for the gracious favor granted us in answer to the prayers of many

- Where did I come from? Why am I here? Where am I going? Who am I? We answer these questions everyday/define ourselves everyday by how we live.  Think: What is the purpous of a fruit tree?

Held: Natalie Grant

Two months is too little.
They let him go.
They had no sudden healing.
To think that providence would
Take a child from his mother while she prays
Is appalling.

Who told us we’d be rescued?
What has changed and why should we be saved from nightmares?
We’re asking why this happens
To us who have died to live?
It’s unfair.

Chorus:
This is what it means to be held.
How it feels when the sacred is torn from your life
And you survive.
This is what it is to be loved.
And to know that the promise was
When everything fell we’d be held.

This hand is bitterness.
We want to taste it, let the hatred know our sorrow.
The wise hands opens slowly to lilies of the valley and tomorrow.

(Chorus)

Bridge:
If hope is born of suffering.
If this is only the beginning.
Can we not wait for one hour watching for our Savior?

(Chorus)

So ya… good weekend, but lots to think on, gotta go, have a good one!  Oh, and Nikki, praying for you today babe… getting your wisdom teeth out is never fun, but I’m sure you’ll pull through!