Is God Green? and Earth Hour

Is God Green?

This Friday is an event that our church (my hubby) has been working on for awhile and I am very excited about it. It is called "Is God Green" and we will be hearing from Dr. Timothy Pierce about how to think Christianly about the environment.

Earth Hour

Also, to make the weekend even more green, I am looking forward to participating in Earth Hour on Saturday night in which everyone turns their lights out at 8:30 local time. For those of you who are teachers there are also some worksheets available online.

Hope you all will join me in both events!!

Spring Break is over

random photo I took awhile back.

Well, I don't really even know what to post about but really wanted a new post on the blog. Maybe I should ask John to start posting...
Well, spring break is over. Sad day! Technically, I guess I don't go back to work until tomorrow but reality proves that I go back to work today. Yes, I do my lesson plans on Sundays. So, I just settled in at Jupiter House with my latte ( that I am not supposed to be drinking) and I need to start my lesson planning for the week.
This was my first spring break as a teacher and I really feel like it is such a tease! Maybe its that the weather has been so beautiful but it feels like summer. So, like I told someone this morning and I was half joking, spring break just leaves me angry. I am so ready for summer but I have 2 months of teaching left. And maybe me just saying all that reveals alot about my heart and the state of its contentment, or lack of! I saw on itunes that Josh Patterson recently preached on contentment, I really need to listen to it!
In other news, we are going to paint the laundry room soon! We were set to do it yesterday but John was starting to get sick, he didn't though- thanks to Influenza, a natural medicine! So hopefully we will get to that next weekend and I will post pics.
We also have bought several plants lately. I have decided that I love plants. They are so beautiful and add so much to a room! My latest purchase was 3 different succulents, I love succulents! I will post pics of them soon- they look so good!

Hopeful Doctrines- Take 2...

You may have noticed that I have deleted part of this post. I decided to edit it because I may have said too much in the previous post. I am so sorry if I made anyone feel betrayed or hurt by what I said.
I do still want to share The following which was found on John Pipers blog recently, I found it very encouraging especially when I find myself doubting!


J. Gresham Machen, one of the great proclaimers and defenders of the Christian faith in the early 20th century, went through a season of fearful doubt on his way to solid confidence. Remarkably, it was his mother who spoke one of the decisive words of rescue. He tells the story:

The question is not merely whether we can rest in our faith, but whether we can rest in the doubt that is the necessary alternative of faith. We pass sometimes through periods of very low spiritual vitality. The wonderful gospel which formerly seemed to be so glorious comes to seem almost like an idle tale. Hosts of objections arise in our minds; the whole unseen world recedes in the dim distance, and we think for the moment that we have relinquished the Christian hope....

My mother [spoke to me] in those dark hours when the lamp burned dim, when I thought that faith was gone and shipwreck had been made of my soul. “Christ,” she used to say, “keeps firmer hold on us than we keep on him.”

My mother’s word meant...that salvation by faith does not mean that we are saved because we keep ourselves at every moment in an ideally perfect attitude of confidence in Christ. No, we are saved because having once been united to Christ by faith, we are his forever. Calvinism is a very comforting doctrine indeed. Without its comfort, I think I should have perished long ago in the castle of Giant Despair. (J. Gresham Machen: Selected Shorter Writings, 561)

Culture and Theology

Friday night we attended The Village's Culture and Theology Event: Jesus and Politics. It was amazing. The open question time created great dialogue and it was often a little tense. I so appreciate that our church is willing to talk about where we are in this world and the issues that we face. Dr. Darrell Bock was the speaker, check out his blog here.

A first...

So, quick story:
John and I went to Costco today to do some grocery shopping. There was a guy there selling those "Little Giant" ladders, you know Costco always has companies in there selling their own product. Well, John and I walk by and the guy looks at me and asks "Are you grown?" I responded: "Yes." What else do I say. He just laughed after I answered. I was so taken back, mostly because I had never been asked that question before but partly because that is kind of a rude question to ask. Don't you think? Did he think I was a dwarf, or did he think I was young? It was just a weird question! Now, I got over what I thought to be a tiny bit rude but for the rest of the afternoon was just plain shocked that someone would ask someone that. I wish now, that I would have told him that I was 9 or something. I don't know what he would have thought then but...it might have been funnier for us to answer that way.

Update

Well, I am going to make a quick update...mainly so I don't have to see that same last post everytime I click out blog.
*John and I spent the last week and 1/2 in Portland. It was cold and snowy but we had a great time with little things scheduled. We hung out with a few friends but mostly relaxed, celebrated Johns birthday and saw family!
*John turned 30! We had a big party for him at the house Saturday night- thanks to Kimbo, Lyn, Diane and Emily it was a success!
*My brother had their second baby- Madison Grace. I heard she is adorable!
* I head back to school today- I am seriously struggling with this, I loved not working over the break and so I probably should go spend some time with the Lord and pray about being content where He has me...
This should be an exciting semester, it should go by really fast and I think that I will be working less than last semester- yay! ( which hopefully means more blogging!)

"How come she isn't pregnant?"

Coversation in my classroom today:

Scene: John came to school because he bought me a hot water dispenser. I introduce him to the kids and give them permission to ask him questions...

Briawna: "Do you have dogs?"
Dakotah: "You got a hair cut, I know it." ( he met John once after school)

There were more but I can't remember due to the next hilarious question:

Dakotah: "So, if you are married to Mrs. Warren why isn't she pregnant?"

Entire class (including John and I): erupting laughter!