... in estes park, co.
hiked up to 12k feet, snowy, icy patches throughout... add to it winds at 45mph+! this, coming from sea level and 90(something) degrees. :)
yesterday we mountain biked a super-technical route which included getting a tad detoured and being forced through 18% grade hills and switchbacks. toughest. ride. evar.
but tomorrow... tomorrow... is the big one!
replenishing with lots of good home-cooked, locally sourced food. mmmmm.
happy remembrance day!
so it's two international flower deliveries this year... happy mother's day from afar.
and happy b-day to y this past week.
this story was a "gift" to both of us: i&l.
now reading this momentary marriage together.
too many quotables to share (thus, MUST read the whole book!) but this one really spoke and ministered to us this past week:
"...marriage is a model of Christ and the church—namely, that this gives
marriage a solid basis in grace, since Christ obtained and sustains his
bride by grace alone...since Christ’s
new covenant with his church is created by and sustained by blood-bought
grace, therefore, human marriages are meant to showcase that
new-covenant grace. And the way husbands and wives showcase it is by
resting in the experience of God’s grace and bending it out from a
vertical experience with God into a horizontal experience with their
spouse. In other words, in marriage you live hour by hour in glad
dependence on God’s forgiveness and justification and promised future
grace, and you bend it out toward your spouse hour by hour—as an
extension of God’s forgiveness and justification and promised help."
praying that we put "the glory of Christ’s covenant-keeping love on display" as we grow old together...
...to nothing. who are we to demand that things go this way or that way in our lives? it's not about us. for His name's sake alone. thanks for the reminder, b.holmes.
a tough-in-a-good-way weekend of serving the forgotten, plunging deeper into commitment and authenticity with our community group, and pondering the recent call of discipleship being presented before us.
