We have begun an incredible year. I hope to tell you all about it soon but for now I am running with 'a picture is worth a thousand words.' For certain they are better than the words I could manage this week!
Author Archives: Kim Halloran-Fry
a sweet start
all you need
snowdrops
There has been no snow for the snowdrops to peek through this year so she saw them right off. She came in and asked if she could pick just a few of the green things with the white things on the top for me. I started to explain that wildflowers like these don't really last long once you cut them. She was still looking expectantly so I just stopped all that and said yes.
Yes.
I would love that.
How about just a couple today and then we will enjoy the rest when we play outside? She was off in a flash and returned with her 'just a few' for me. They lasted about as long as this moment, which is a blink and forever all at once.
12
He set his clock for midnight because he didn't want to miss a minute of his birthday. He was in such good humor he even sat for a few pictures. Sure. Why not right?
Just know that it's hard to maintain that almost 13 smoulder when your mom is such a crack up behind the camera. ; )
Yeah. That's it. There it is. : )
wait
I will take my stand at my watchpost
and station myself on the tower,
and look out to see what he will say to me,
and what I will answer concerning my complaint.
And the Lord answered me:
“Write the vision;
make it plain on tablets,
so he may run who reads it.
For still the vision awaits its appointed time;
it hastens to the end—it will not lie.
If it seems slow, wait for it;
it will surely come; it will not delay.
– Habbakuk 2
This jumped out at me in my reading this weekend. I was thinking about it during my walk this morning, about how often we give God very small and precise parameters to work within. We so often assess the Almighty's performance in regard to our complaints and find His responses tardy. We assume that since He has not responded in what seems to us a reasonable amount of time that He then is not planning to.
Scripture so often says otherwise. It says the vision is still good. It isn't delayed, it is just that our time is not God's time. So we are to wait, and not wait passively. We are to station ourselves, to take an expectant stand and wait with confidence to see HOW He will answer. For He surely will.
Trouble comes when we start to get hung up on the how. "I can't see how this can end well." "I can't see how this could ever be fixed." "I can't see how I can ever feel differently." "I can't imagine this (person, place, situation) will ever change." Lucky for us, God is not limited by our capacity to predict and direct.
This is my reminder to myself. This is all I have to offer in my letters to friends. We don't have to be able to foresee how God will work it all out. Just know that He can. He surely will. He, in fact, is. Romans 8:28
And His timing is perfect.
mornings with minnie
Just one morning in my life, frozen in time. Aerobics for me. A few minutes with Minnie for her.
All good.
an odd school
"These were the boys and they lived together as happily as lads could, studying and playing, working and squabbling, finding faults and cultivating virtues in the good old-fashioned way.
Boys at other schools probably learned more from books but less of that better wisdom which makes good men. Latin, Greek and mathematics were all very well but in Professor Bhaer's opinion self-knowledge, self-help, and self-control were more important and he tried to teach them carefully.
As Mrs. Jo said,
'It was an odd school.'"
– Little Men
Cintra
So, really, I never did post the pictures from Portugal? Well, that's just not right. Looking at these makes me take back everything I ever said about four seasons.
Someone get me back to Portugal please. : )
tipsy
What to say about the village of Lavenham? Well, it is famous for it's half-timbered houses perched at precariously wonky angles leaning over streets or into neighboring houses. "Everyone" said we should see this. "Everyone" does not speak for my older children, who said, yep. They are tilted.
This one, saying "hmm, what could POSSIBLY be around that corner? yesssss! Another crooked house!"
There were a lot of such corners.
yeah.
And then it was like, Mom. Mom? For real now. Can we go get something to eat? We promise the awesomeness of tippy houses is forever seared into our memories. Muah. Let's eat.
So we did.
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