Thursday, June 25, 2009

Talents (according to the twins)

Lindsey - dancing, teaching, being a cool lady
 
Sydney - singing, coloring, making food
 
Charlie - cooking, spelling, reading, math






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Tuesday, June 23, 2009

Kate's Wedding

June 20th was Kate Woodby's wedding. It was beautiful! I got to go down to Schaumburg on Thursday night with the Woodby family, since they consider me part of the fam. All day Friday we spent doing wedding stuff, including manicures, pedicures, and lunch with the bridal party. I was honored to be part of the festivities! During the rehearsal, Rachel, Luke, and I played Scrabble Slam. Fun game! The wedding was gorgeous, the challenge to the bride and groom was the best yet - very original, and the reception hall was stunning. Such a fun time. Thomas' girlfriend, Rachel, came down from Wisconsin on Friday so she and I spent alot of time together while everyone else did wedding-y things. Friday night we stayed up talking til 2:15am since we could sleep in the next day. Hehehe! After the wedding on Saturday, the rest of the Woodbys, Rachel, and myself went to a Schaumburg Flyer's baseball game. We had intended to go downtown Chicago, but train times and our schedule didn't really work together. The baseball game was a blast, though. We even saw Batman! Not the real one of course, which was a bummer. =) After the game, we five kids - Thomas, Rachel, Mikey, Kristin, and I - went to eat at Chili's before dropping off Rachel at a friend's house. Sunday we slept in and went to church at eleven. Got to see Dr. J. another time. Olive Garden for lunch, then home again, home again, jiggity jog. The ride home with Kristin, Tomo, and Mikey was a blast of course. It was a splendid weekend!

Thursday, June 11, 2009

Do You Know What Jesus Did?


I have been studying John 13 in my new Bible study. Do you know what Jesus did in the first few verses? He made Himself as a lowly servant and washed the feet of the disciples. This task was so menial that the disciples would not have even washed each others' feet, much less have their Master wash their feet! Jesus gladly, purposefully stooped below the status of the disciples to demonstrate true humility and servanthood. But there's more. Jesus washed the feet of His betrayer. Jesus knew Judas was going to betray Him, yet He lovingly cleaned the feet of that man.  Would not you and I be more than offended if we served a person who later betrayed us? Yet Jesus already knew it and He served the traitor anyway. What love, what humility, what a lesson. The King of the universe stooping to the feet of proud, ignorant, sinful men and making Himself their servant. No person is too lowly for you and me to serve. If Jesus can do it, so must we.