Looking at his notebook on his newly finished quilt (finally).

Playing in the tent with Laurel.

Allen likes to stack the pieces to his rocking moon game.

And of course the cuisenaire rods are a lot of fun.

Well make sure THIS hasn’t happened to you! How can you miss that for that many years? It’s just crazy!

Sometimes in this life there are happy moments, sometimes there are sad moments, and then sometimes there is sorrow that is mingled with joy. While we don’t always know God’s full purpose for the things he ordains to happen, we rejoice that he is indeed sovereign and that he does have a plan and purpose. And even while we sorrow in the death of fellow Christians, we rejoice that the Lord has taken them home.

I post to thank all of you who prayed for Eric Davis and to let you know that Eric has gone home to be with the Lord. We sorrow with the family he leaves behind, we rejoice that the Lord has indeed taken His servant home, and we rejoice in the legacy he leaves behind.

To God be the glory!

Today is my Birthday… I feel like I’m getting old all the sudden! I’m more than half way to 50 (well it’s true, last year I was half way to 50).

I’m supposed to celebrate at my parents house tonight.

Did anyone get me something from my wish list?

I have been made aware of this through a friend and don’t know how many this will affect of people I know, but I’ll post it here anyway. I do have some friends in Illinois, and I know it has been verified to have happened in Illinois. Anyway, here it is:

JURY DUTY SCAM :
This has been verified by the FBI (their link is also included below). Please pass this on to everyone in your email address book. It is spreading fast so be prepared should you get this call. Most of us take those summons for jury duty seriously .. a new and ominous kind of fraud has surfaced.

The caller claims to be a jury coordinator. If you protest that you never received a summons for jury duty, the scammer asks you for your Social Security number and date of birth so he or she can verify the information and cancel the arrest warrant. Give out any of this information and bingo, your identity was just stolen. The fraud has been reported so far in 11 states, including Oklahoma, Illinois, and Colorado. This (swindle) is particularly insidious because they use intimidation over the phone to try to bully people into giving information by pretending they are with the court system. The FBI and the Federal Court System have issued nationwide alerts on their web sites, warning consumers about the fraud.

CHECK IT OUT YOURSELF AND SEE Snopes site: says this is real fraud.
http://www.snopes.com/crime/fraud/juryduty.asp

FBI site: warns about the fraud.
http://www.fbi.gov/page2/june06/jury_scams060206.htm

Eric Davis, who is deacon in a church in our denomination suffered a major heart attack last night. The details have been posted on several blogs so I’m not going to type them out again here but link to a couple:

http://allelon.blogspot.com/2008/01/urgent-prayer-request.html

http://familyreformation.wordpress.com/2008/01/26/emergency-prayer-request-eric-davis-homeschool-dad-and-good-friend/

http://familyreformation.wordpress.com/2008/01/26/priase-report-and-update-eric-davis/

Under the circumstances it’s hard to feel joyous about anything regarding the situation, but one thing I am glad about is how folks are pulling together to pray for this man. You can see the concern and the care in all the blog posts from folks in our denomination.

Please pray for him and for his family as they walk through this trying time. We ultimately pray for the Lord’s will, but I know I at least pray that the Lord’s will would be to bring Eric through this!