flood edition of "it's the little things"

yep. Dec 28th, we came home to the sound of rushing water downstairs. combination of a frozen pipe and a poor soldering job.

this was not lost on me as i sat there, smiling in the midst of chaos. knowing our Lord had been preparing me for this. a stripping. a purifying. an eternal vs temporal focus.

making the most of hotel living...

the playing of games on new years eve

opening the door to a freshly made bed that i didn't make!
(keep telling myself to enjoy it now, yet to NOT get used to this!) 

upon one of our visits to the house, we discovered they took ALL the clothes, bedding and linens to be professionally cleaned!!

what you are looking at here is the LACK of wood on the walls! due to the water damage, they took it all off around the fireplace! 
this was something we wanted to do someday, if/when we could afford to.

utilizing this guy

dude. they have the BEST crumbly-top blueberry muffins here!
every.morning.

:behold crumbly-top goodness:


grateful for the provisions of our Lord through insurance and others giving of themselves

around the web:
*Live for Jesus, and not for yourself, and things will fall into the right priority.
*Persevere! Let’s not be quitters! God would rather us make it to the end of the year still stumbling over some words than throwing our hands up and quitting at the first imperfect recitation. Even if we don’t get our verses down perfectly, the pursuit itself is the very art of meditation. Nothing about it is a waste of time. Just think of how it helps to break the mental loop of rehearsed offenses. We’re going to be fixated on something. That’s how our minds often work. But we get to choose what.

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