Is that person really a Christian????

Bottom line, only God knows...but this  article by Ed Underwood is good  for if you are wondering where a person really is at in their journey....
http://us6.campaign-archive1.com/?u=14ef0b5c9a2b19b53f26c3e60&id=72694827db&e=d2c4cc85c9

What To Tell Your Kids About Growing Up

Great thoughts


http://www.aholyexperience.com/2014/08/what-to-tell-your-kids-about-growing-up-in-a-world-with-current-headlines/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.aholyexperience.com%2F2014%2F08%2Fwhat-to-tell-your-kids-about-growing-up-in-a-world-with-current-headlines%2F&utm_content&utm_campaign=A+Holy+Experience+Blog+Posts

Love

“Do you know what hurts so very much? It's love. Love is the strongest force in the world, and when it is blocked that means pain. There are two things we can do when this happens. We can kill that love so that it stops hurting. But then of course part of us dies, too. Or we can ask God to open up another route for that love to travel.” Corrie ten Boom

Education

“Whatever an education is, it should make you a unique individual, not a conformist; it should furnish you with an original spirit with which to tackle the big challenges; it should allow you to find values which will be your road map through life; it should make you spiritually rich, a person who loves whatever you are doing, wherever you are, whomever you are with; it should teach you what is important, how to live and how to die.”
– John Taylor Gatto

Welcome to my table...

“Hospitality means primarily the creation of free space where the stranger can enter and become a friend instead of an enemy. Hospitality is not to change people, but to offer them space where change can take place. It is not to bring men and women over to our side, but to offer freedom not disturbed by dividing lines.”   Henri Nouwen

My Guy....Riley

I already dread that day since my guy just had his 8th birthday....but when the time comes this will bring me comfort.  In the meantime, I will focus my energies on being grateful and enjoy each day as it comes.

Treasured Friend
I lost a treasured friend today

The little dog who used to lay

His gentle head upon my knee

And shared his silent thoughts with me.

He’ll come no longer to my call

Retrieve no more his favorite ball

A voice far greater than my own

Has called him to his golden throne.

Although my eyes are filled with tears

I thank him for the happy years

He let him spend down here with me

And for his love and loyalty.

When it is time for me to go

And join him there, this much I know

I shall not fear the transient dark

For he will greet me with a bark.

                          Author Unknown

 



I love Ann Voskamp....she has such a great way of wording things....

http://www.aholyexperience.com/2014/08/how-to-really-send-the-kids-back-to-school-out-into-the-world

 Life is about one thing: Coming to His table and inviting as many as you can to come with you and feast on the only Living Food.

 And don’t live safe. How many times have I thought safe mattered when Jesus died to save us not to make us safe. No one ever got saved unless someone else was unsafe.