Lover Prowess Test

We often forget that the complete goal of life is to love.  That is a startling truth once considered; our chief aim is to love, love God first and our neighbor second.  How are you doing?  Ask God.  If He doesn’t answer walk across your yard and ask your neighbor, “Do you believe I love you?”   There’s a pretty good chance their answer is God’s also.

The Yawn Heard Round The World

The earth quakes at the trauma played out upon it; infants being cut up for their wonderfully knitted organs.  Our culture has become so primitive.  Even if one did not believe in an after life they should hope for one where babies can rise up and call their butchers to account.  How long will we “yawn”* while the butcher shop around the corner packages infants in Styrofoam and clear plastic priced by the pound.  

If the headline had been “SeaWorld harvests dolphin organs to supply the exotic medicine industry in Asia” the outcry would be heard around the world.  But killing children with precision to save their organs for resale elicits only a “yawn.”*

*Writing at Cosmopolitan magazine, abortion supporter Robin Marty said that she had seen the video. Then she said, “Now, frankly, I’m just going to yawn.”

Dr. Albert Mohler blog

Oh God how red the water is in the bowl we wash our hands!

Dear Britt;

“You (God) cleaved the earth with rivers.”  I read that verse this morning and was struck by the beauty of the sound of the word “cleaved” and of the meaningfulness of it.  I looked it up to encourage me.

“To split or divide by or as by a cutting blow, especially along a natural line of division, as the grain of wood.”

Our family reunion has been this week.  We have been in a stone cabin beside a roaring creek cleaved long ago by God.  But there is a great mystery occurring in our family.  Zac’s fiancée, Britt, was unable to come.  Each of us has felt an expressed a great loss that she is not here.  Our hearts has been cleaved along a natural grain of God’s love to welcome her into our abiding care.  This cleaving is God’s gift, His way to abundantly add to the joy of our family’s existence in Him.  Britt is our new “river” cleaved long ago by God to water and bringing new life to our family. 

We miss you Britt!

Your family,

The Bensons

Our family missing one!

Heat Advisory

It is as still as lint.  The humid heat of mid summer as been dragged over everything and nothing is exerting energy.  Not a leaf or limb moves, the whole earth is stagnant except for the primping sun proving its dominion over all the south.    

Heat Advisory is only something you want describing your wife, your honeymoon and your marriage bed.

Olafur Eliasson's The Weather Project
at the Tate Modern

Sparkles And Wiggles

Last night for our family devotion we watched the following YouTube video;

http://inspiremore.com/nasa-just-released-the-largest-photo-ever-taken-what-it-shows-will-shake-you-up/

This morning in my personal devotion I read in Jonah,  “But God appointed a worm…”  Jonah 4:7

Who is this Great God we love and serve?  From Galaxies to worms, everything sparkles and wiggles at His command!  God I love You!!!

A Sparkle with a little wiggle.