Following God

    There's this post I read lately about following God and I thought it was a good topic.  We need to follow Jesus, because otherwise we are lost.  Have you ever been lost?  There's this scary feeling that comes over you and your scared that your on your way to hell, or sometimes people don't even know they're lost. That's how I was one out of the two times I was lost.   What happened was, I had something to do and while I was doing that thing, my family left me at the park (where we happened to be the sledding).  So, I came out of the warming house and I see a van pulling out that looks like our van.  So, I think that they are leaving me.  I start running as fast as I can and I'm headed for the van.  I notice that it is not Dad or Mom in the drivers seat.  So I'm wondering what's going on?  Then I see another car and it comes up to me.  I see that this one's ours'.  Well, I climb into the van and Dad tells me that they left me there, and half way home someone asks "Were is Grant," and they of course couldn't find me, and they came back to the park and there I was in the parking lot.

       That's how some people are, their running after the wrong car and and they don't even notice until they finally see that the wrong drivers in the drivers seat.  A lot of times others have show them that they are follow the wrong person, that's our job as followers of Christ. Well there is one of my stories, the other one is a lot more funny and in this one I do those not very smart things.  I'll use the other story as an illustration some other time.

My new knife

A few weeks ago my dad gave me a knife!

Here are some pictures.

A serious car crash

      Two of the children are discharged, along with the dad. Of the others, one had surgery to reconstruct her femur, and another had surgery on his face. The other girl was discharged, but she is vomiting and they can't figure out what is wrong, so she is back in the ER. Pray that they would be able to find the problem and do something about it. Thank you all!


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        A car crash happened to some people we know and I would like to ask you to pray for them.  It happened yesterday afternoon. They were driving somewhere, when the car in front of them spun out, and they hit it head on.  They had 5 of there 8 children in the car, along with the mom and dad.  All of them had an injury.  Mrs. Robbe has two broken ankles, and a collapse lung, Mr. Robbe has a broken wrist, Rachel and Caleb each have a broken collar bone, Caleb also has bad seat belt cuts.  Hanna has a broken femur, there younger daughter might have internal bleeding, and the youngest person in there family lost their front teeth (thank God he was not too young or he might have died).  That's about it, keep them in your prayers.

   That family came very close to dieing.  Are you ready to die?  If you got in a car crash, and God did not spare your life, would you go to heaven?  Click Here  if you are not sure, and find out for yourself.

 

What are family did over the last two weeks

      The reason why I have not posted very much for the last two weeks, is because our family has been extremely busy.  We've done three dance performances,  practiced for the performances at least once a day, school, had prayer time (which is something we do every night before we go to bed, it usually takes 1 to 2 hours), and since the weather has been nice, I have played outside every day (2 to 3 hours at least).  That's what our family has been doing.  What has your family been doing over St. Pat's Day? Leave a comment and tell me what you did.

We must lay down self

      This is a text from the book The Light and the Glory: "We must lay down self...  Therefore, because it is not in us to help our self, let us lay all at the feet of Christ...  because Christ and self service cannot stand together, to have self in anything is to put out Christ: no man can serve two masters..." Matthew 6:24
    "Thus you have seen the first means of becoming disciples, vis, self denial.  Now we come to the second; take up the cross.  You must not think to go to heaven on a feather bed;if you will be Christ's disciples, you must take up His Cross, and it will make you sweat.  By the cross, we understand troubles, because  the death of the Cross,was the bitterest and most accursed; therefore, it is put for all misery, trouble, affliction and persecution.  A man must take up his cross, because it is his own... We must not bring misery on ourselves; there is no credit or comfort in this.  The text does not say "Let him make his cross," no, it is made already.  So long as we have the world and our own corrupt hearts, and as long as there are devils in hell, there are troubles enough..."
     "Shall I not drink the cup which my Father gives?  There is the force of the argument. God prepares it, therefore drink it, so the Apostle Paul reasons... God would have us live. If the patient be persuaded that the Physician has the skill, he will be willing to receive the potions prescribed to him." 

Another performance

Our family is getting ready for another performance.

Here are some pictures from past performances we have done.

Haley

Lydia

Grant (or me)

Lance

Noela

Haley Lydia and I dancing a reel

Haley and Lydia

before the performance

Grant (or me) juggling

Haley and Lydia dancing a two hand reel

All of us who perform singing a song

photo credits: Richard Korgensen

Luke 9:23

"And he said to them all If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me "  Luke 9:23


          ......"Take up his cross daily and follow me".....  Another way to say it is, offer up (which means use them to make you focus more on God)  your sufferings (what ever your flesh doesn't want to do, that should be done) Daily (not just when you feel like it) and follow Jesus ( who had to suffer ultimately, on the cross, for our sin).  So let's try to take up our cross daily and follow our savior.