Sunday is here
A day of rest!
Need I say more?
The temptation is always to fill times of rest with times of work. So, we will see how the day goes – and be intentional in finding rest and refreshment in this day!
Ahaz, Hezekiah, Manasseh and Josiah
All not so familiar names, but with a familiar story.
In the last years of the reign of the Jewish kings in Judah, these were some of the prominent names. They were subject to the prevailing society around them, while trying to maintain a purity of their of culture and religious background.
The cycle was almost predictable – from father to son – bad, good, bad, good.
I’m still trying to figure out how to live in a society that disregards or ignores their own spiritual plight. As I read of these kings, I’m reminded that the best leadership does not guarantee a good succession.
A trend one way may mean a complete reversal in short order.
On the surface, the whole thing leads to despair.
Underneath, I am reminded that God is in control. Nothing happens without God’s knowledge. I don’t need to know all the ingredients of life, I’m just called to be faithful to God with the life I live. And in that life, I am called to call others to God.
Changing modes – from building to cleaning
We move next week – Monday to be precise.
Up until this point everything has been towards renovation. Getting things ready to put tables and chairs into a room that is newly reset.
Now I’m in the mode of cleaning up things so that we can move.
Are we finished our renovations? Not by a long shot, or a short one as well.
But we are ready to be in the house and working out of the house as our place of both refuge and our place of advancement. I’m looking forward to these next few weeks as we complete work and go back to “work.”
Cementing
A quick comment for an extended work period!
In order to get the basement bathroom coordinated and to have a larger utility room in our new home, we had to move some plumbing. In the basement floor.
Which meant jackhammering out concrete, placing new pipes and finally replacing the concrete.
That was yesterday’s job. Backfilling around the pipes was the afternoon. The evening was smoothing out the area for cementing and the actual cementing.
I have not done a lot of cementing, but I was amazed how much I remembered from my father’s projects. Our evening ended at 2:00 in the morning.
In the end, the cement is in place and will be cured in the next few days.
Hallelujah!