Praise God From Whom ALL Blessings Flow.

It's been a while, but here I am again.

Last month we went to visit our family in Bloomington and then headed down to Marion, IL.
It was a baby shower for our cousins M & H. They are expecting their first biological child. They already have two precious adopted ones. Jon and I are VERY excited for them, specially because we will be having our first borns so close together andd we really enjoy spending time with them. We have so much in comon. And so much fun together!

Leap Year

This past weekend, by God's grace, we were able to go home.
Jon's second round of tests went great.
God is good and helped him remember everything he had studied weeks before.

Our weeks had been good. Until our car broke down...again.
This time with no lasting or even reasonably priced repair. It was a frustrating time. Discouraging.
Something in the engine broke. Anyways, we've been without a car since last Tuesday.

It is amazing how a blessing can turn into a curse, just to turn into a blessing again.

Alabaster Jar.

This blog was insipired by a sermon by Pastor Leonard Ravenhill.

Most of us have heard the story of the woman and the Alabaster Jar in Matt. 26:7, Mark 14:3

The disciples were astonished not by her devotion to the Lord, but by her "wasting" of a very expensive perfume. It is said it was worth around a year's wages.

Then in another occacion - not sure if it was the same woman ,

In John 12:3 it says that "Mary took a pound of ointment, genuine nard of great value, and anointed the feet of Jesus and wiped his feet dry with her hair. And the house was filled with the fragrance of her ointment."

Again, the disciples (in this case Judas Iscariot) complaint about her "wasting" an expensive perfume with the excuse that it could have been sold and the given to the poor.  Sounds like a pretty noble idea right? I am sure that in any other occation Jesus would have agreed to that. However, he did not. This time things were different. This time Jesus was to be his disciples priority.