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Name: Kathy
Country: United States
State: Virginia
Metro: Loudoun County
Birthday: 2/8/1960
Gender: Female
Interests: Books, mostly OLD books: C.S. Lewis, George MacDonald, Anne of Green Gables (could you guess??), Elisabeth Elliot, Robert Louis Stevenson, H.A. Guerber, Olive Beaupre Miller...and way too many more to name. Also, some new books: John Piper, Michael Phillips, and Francine Rivers. Music: old and new: Third Day, Caedmon's Call, Michael Card, Newsboys, Steven Curtis Chapman, Trans-Siberian Orchestra, Bruce Springsteen (even though most of his lyrics are morally bankrupt, but a Springsteen concert was the first date with Rick!!), and most of all, BABY VS. RHINO (which needs a new name!!)
Occupation: Education/training
Message: message me
Member Since:
5/3/2005
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| Just in case anyone still reads this blog...will have more at Libertas.
Sorry
this is the best pic I have of the two of them...seems appropriate that
it's with their youngest siblings! Karen and others have much better
pics, but I didn't have my camera so handy at the wedding. So, more
later.
It was a lovely and spectacular day. It was one of the
most picturesque spots I can imagine for a wedding, overlooking a
vineyard, and with the Sierras in the distance...topped off by a full
moonrise over the vineyard later in the evening. Bride and groom were
lovely, happy, and beaming. We are so happy and blessed to have such a
sweet new daughter, the perfect wife for our son! It was amazing to
watch our son take his solemn vows with this godly and lovely young
woman...the baby girl/toddler/child/teen/woman that we have been
praying for the last 20 years. God has answered exceedingly abundantly
beyond all that we could have asked or desired.
A few more of my pictures:
 Groom and Best Man with cigars..
 all groomsmen with cigars
 handsome group...but they made me cry...where did those little boys with guns go??
 Josh and Dad
 the rest of us
a
big treat...our dear friends (and one set of Joshua's godparents) Kevin
and Laura Nary (from our early married days) came from So. CA for the
wedding...we had a great time visiting and catching up...haven't seen
them in 7 years!! Their grown up kiddos Megan and David (our godson)
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| and I'm too lazy to post them here. :)
In other news...
She said YES!!! And we couldn't be happier. Looks like an August wedding...
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| I don't seem to get around to posting here too often...but I post a bit more often on my other blog. So, if you actually read this and are interested in my ramblings, you might want to bookmark this and check it about once a week or so. :) There's a link on the sidebar here too, I think.
Here's a copy of what I posted today over there:
This morning we read in Pilgrim’s Progress about Pilgrim’s conversation at the Palace Beautiful with Prudence. The little bit below really impressed me, especially with the current scandal raging around Ted Haggard and his confession. Tim Challies, in his excellent piece on the scandal,
made the point that all Christians should be saddened and horrified,
because, knowing our true Adamic nature, we know that “there but for
the grace of God go I.” There are many things to consider in the wake of this sad situation, but this one resonates with me. Here’s my little retelling (all my Classical Writing readers will know what I mean :) Prudence asks Christian whether he does not till think some about his former home, the City of Destruction. Christian
acknowledges that he does, indeed, to his shame, remember his life
there, but that his desire now is for a better city (Hebrews 11:15-16). Next Prudence inquires if Christian still thinks of some of the things he left behind in the City of Destruction. Sadly,
Christian agrees that he does sometimes think about those things that
formerly delighted him and his companions in that doomed city. Now, however, these thoughts bring him grief, and he wishes that he would never think on them. He echoes St. Paul (Romans 7:15, 21) “For what I am doing, I do not understand; for I am not practicing what I would like to do, but I am doing the very thing I hate.” So Prudence asks him if he can remember what it is that makes those loathsome thoughts disappear at times. Christian knows exactly what they are: ~ “when I think what I saw at the cross, that will do it” ~ “when I look upon my broidered coat, that will do it” ~ “when I look into the roll that I carry in my bosom, that will do it” ~ “when my thoughts wax warm about whither I am going, that will do it” These are the thoughts that will deliver me from the futile and vain imaginations and desires that assail me daily (hourly!): Christ’s
death to take the penalty, the curse, of the law for me; Christ’s
clothing me with His righteousness instead of the old filthy rags of my
sin; the Word of God which always points to Christ; and the hope I have
of a heavenly Mt. Zion, where:
“I
hope to see Him alive that did hang dead on the cross; and there I hope
to be rid of all those things that to this day are in me an annoyance
to me: there they say there is no death (Isaiah 25:8; Revelation 21:4)
and there I shall dwell with such company as I like best. For, to tell
you the truth, I love Him because I was by Him eased of my burden; and
I am weary of my inward sickness. I would fain be where I shall die no
more, and with the company that shall continually cry, Holy, holy,
holy.” My prayer today for myself, and for all who find this Pilgrim’s Way difficult: Almighty
God, You alone can bring into order the unruly wills and affections of
sinners. Grant Your people grace to love what you command and desire
what You promise: that, among the swift and varied changes of the
world, our hearts may surely there be fixed where true joys are to be
found: through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with You and
the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever. Amen. (Book of Common Prayer, Collect for the Fifth Sunday after Lent)
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Lord Jesus,
Give me a deeper repentance,
a horror of sin,
a dread of its approach;
Help me to chastely flee it,
and jealously resolve that my heart
shall be Thine alone.
Give me a deeper trust,
that I may lose myself to find myself in Thee,
the ground of my rest,
the spring of my being.
Give me a deeper knowledge of Thyself
as Saviour, Master, Lord, and King.
Give me deeper power in private prayer,
more sweetness in thy word,
more steadfast grip on its truth.
Give me deeper holiness in speech, thought, action,
and let me not seek moral virtue apart from Thee.
Plough deep in me, great Lord,
heavenly Husbandman,
that my being may be a tilled field,
the roots of grace spreading far and wide,
until Thou alone art seen in me,
Thy beauty golden like summer harvest,
Thy fruitfulness as autumn plenty.
I have no Master but Thee,
no law but Thy will,
no delight by Thyself,
no wealth but that Thou givest,
no good but that Thou blessest,
no peace but that Thou bestowest.
I am nothing but that Thou makest me,
I have nothing but that I receive from Thee,
I can be nothing but that grace adorns me.
Quarry me deep, dear Lord,
and then fill me to overflowing
with living water.
~ from The
Valley of Vision
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