The Bible

 

Teaching kids in Master Club is thrilling!  They love the games, the songs, and the stories.  To help them with Bible memory verses, I have resorted to the old-school flannel board.  I print Bible verses, cut the words apart, spray glue on the back and glue them to flannel.  The kids enjoy putting the verses in order on the flannel board.  Occasionally I have a “tornado” come through and destroy the verse.  They have fun.  Saturday, I was working on a verse and I became pensive.  It was amazing to see me type a Bible verse and print it out, and then watch the printer produce the everlasting Word of God!  And as the kids memorize the Word of God, its power influences another generation!  Hebrews 4:12, “For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.”  Read it.  Memorize it.  Make it a part of your life.  You’ll never be sorry that you did.

Wool Dryer Balls

 

Marleen likes to use wool dryer balls for two reasons: They’re cheaper and they don’t use chemicals.  But we were down to 4 dryer balls.  But then she found one in the sleeve of my dress shirt just before she ironed it.  How that dryer ball got into the sleeve of my dress shirt without me knowing it, I’ll never know.  So, now we’re back up to 5 dryer balls.  I brought 2 dryer balls from my old house, so now we have 7.  But Saturday, I set a record!  I got the sheets out of the dryer and found no dryer balls in the dryer!  That’s never happened before!  All 7 wool dryer balls were hiding in the corners of the fitted sheet!  I should have known that’s where they would have been found!  The perfect place for them to collect!  Hey, where will you be found on Sunday morning?  Will you be in church, or will you be missing?  It’s easy to sleep in on Sunday morning; it’s easy to go fishing on Sunday morning; it’s easy to sit at home and read the morning newspaper or to watch Meet the Press.  But you should be found in your place at church on Sunday morning!  Hebrews 10:25, “Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.”

Plans Change

 

Thursday, I had my day all planned out.  Marleen was working, and I had a woodworking project that I was anxious to get into.  But alas, the drain in the kitchen sink had other plans for me (note the picture).  I got a plunger and tried the simple fix.  No good.  I crawled under the house – no simple matter because the crawl space access door was under the back deck: a little lower than my back in a crawling position.  Did I mention the gravel under my knees?  Using my 15-foot sewer hand auger (commonly called a snake), I rodded as far as I could.  Then I noticed a sag in the sink drain line going to the main sewer line.  The original plumber assumed that water ran uphill, because the drain line went downhill and then uphill for 10 feet.  I used installed hangers to attempt to straighten out the sag.  But it had taken 10 years to get the sag, and I wasn’t going to get it out in one afternoon.  After my 3^rd trip to Lowe’s, I replaced the entire sink drain line.  When Marleen came home, the sink drain was flowing freely, and I was her hero.  Well worth the backbreaking work.  Hey, plans change.  Are you flexible?  If the Lord has another plan for you, are you willing to go with the Lord’s plans?  James 4:13-15, “Go to now, ye that say, To day or to morrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain: Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that.”