Jehovah "Draws" Us

For all of you who struggle with yourself spiritually, have someone in your life who has no spiritual commitment or has abandoned their spiritual commitment, my friend Heather reminded me of something said at the District Convention:

There is always hope for anyone and especially so for someone who truly loved (loves?) jehovah. . . jehovah is there waiting for him (her). it makes me think of the talk at the convention. do you remember the point about the greek word used for "draw" at james 4:8? it was only used one other time and it's interesting b/c it was when jesus had his disciples draw in their nets after a whole night of fishing and not catching anything...and the catch was so large that they had to pull with all of their strength to pull the nets into the boat. the brother made the point that that is how jehovah draws us today - that there might be resistance on our end for whatever reason, but he keeps "drawing" us that way. That is a new point for me, I think. you know you always hear how "you have to make the first step and then Jehovah will help you" which for many things I'm sure is true. however to draw us to him in the first place, he exerts tremendous energy even tho we resist b/c he sees something in us personally. i loved that point and it's heartwarming to know - nothing will keep jehovah from drawing us to him - but in the end, we have to get in the boat. he knows each of our situations and how they effect us personally. he knows what each person is going thru and has gone thru and only he knows - better than even the person - what his/her heart is capable of under better conditions.

House for Sale

It's official . . 90 days and counting until the house has to be sold or the Relo company is buying it . . . and Carey and Willow's pictorial comment on this:

It's a frog! It's Julie! It's Susan's!!

We went to Athens County to visit Julie who is back from Thailand visiting. She was out at Susan's, so we dined on coffee marinated pork, fresh veggies with ginger wasabi dip, and homemade coconut curry ice cream which was amazing. Julie looks great and you can see all sorts of happiness and good energy surrounding her.

We picked raspberries - we must have been there about 15 minutes when I realized there was a teeny tiny frog perched on a raspberry leaf if you can imagine that. He had been so very quiet and still that we hadn't noticed him even though we had been bending the raspberry bushes this way and that way.

Olentangy Caverns

My brother, Chris, came for a visit. We went to Olentangy Caverns - natural caverns where the Wyandot Indians wintered. It is pretty amazing. And then we partook of some of the overpriced tourist activities - mining for gems and the climbing wall - but it was all great fun and we had a riot.