Watch Toby dance with his good friend Tera. We think it is so funny that their dancing styles line up with their personality. Tera dances like a nice little girl while Toby dances like he is a true thug.
Tuesday, July 24, 2007
Wednesday, July 11, 2007
Best Friends
We took this picture when we were at Myrtle Beach visiting our Summer Beach Project. Our facility this summer is oceanfront and the boys absolutely loved going out to the ocean and playing on the beach. Occasionally Toby would disappear...but we always knew that we could find him digging in the beach bag for "cwackas". He is a true snack-master.
Fourth of July
As has become our annual tradition, we went to the Bradner Blue Heaven mountain house in Blue Ridge, Ga. to celebrate the 4th.
Dad and Sara really have done some amazing things with the house and land and we enjoyed it as always.
The house is now fully finished with the basement being completed right before everyone arrived. That now gives us 5 bedrooms and three floors including a living area on the main floor and the basement level. This really makes it comfortable for the ever increasing grandchildren to have another living room to play in.
Our week was full of fishing and a tube ride on the river, geocaching in the Blue Ridge area, the annual Bradner Fireworks show (taken to the next level), hitting golf balls on the pasture, a trip to the Atlanta Aquarium, playing UNO and just hanging with the extended Bradner clan.
I will post a few pictures from the week as well.
Dad and Sara really have done some amazing things with the house and land and we enjoyed it as always.
The house is now fully finished with the basement being completed right before everyone arrived. That now gives us 5 bedrooms and three floors including a living area on the main floor and the basement level. This really makes it comfortable for the ever increasing grandchildren to have another living room to play in.
Our week was full of fishing and a tube ride on the river, geocaching in the Blue Ridge area, the annual Bradner Fireworks show (taken to the next level), hitting golf balls on the pasture, a trip to the Atlanta Aquarium, playing UNO and just hanging with the extended Bradner clan.
I will post a few pictures from the week as well.
Tuesday, July 10, 2007
Here is a nice Proverb of Power that I have been chewing on lately.
Proverbs 24:30-34 has a great principle for us concerning what happens when someone gets lazy and distracted from giving the proper care for their fields. I think this idea of a “field” or “vineyard” can be applied to any area of our life; work, family, soul care…the list goes on.
This principle here is a very important one indeed…but that isn’t what I have been chewing on.
I have been chewing on how this principle became a principle. Let me explain.
Solomon tells us that he passed by the “field of a sluggard” and the “vineyard of a man lacking sense”. We don’t know where he was going; we just know that he wasn’t going to this field and vineyard. We know that because he passed by it.
As Solomon passed by it, he tells us that the field was overgrown with thorns and covered with nettles and wall of the vineyard was broken down.
At this point, I think we see insight into what made Solomon such a wise man. He could have continued right along on his journey not giving this neglected field a second thought. But he didn’t do that.
Proverbs 24:32 says the following:
“Then I saw and considered it; I looked and received instruction.”
Verses 33-34 record the insight that Solomon gained as he saw, considered and was willing to receive instruction from this neglected field.
I think that this is what separates the wise from the unwise.
The wise take the time to stop and think on what they see…
and in humility, they receive instruction from what they have seen.
In other words, as the wise pass by life…they don’t let it pass by. They learn from it.
Marriage, work, parenting, soul care…there are positive and negative examples all around us. Let’s be like Solomon; stop, consider and receive.
Proverbs 24:30-34 has a great principle for us concerning what happens when someone gets lazy and distracted from giving the proper care for their fields. I think this idea of a “field” or “vineyard” can be applied to any area of our life; work, family, soul care…the list goes on.
This principle here is a very important one indeed…but that isn’t what I have been chewing on.
I have been chewing on how this principle became a principle. Let me explain.
Solomon tells us that he passed by the “field of a sluggard” and the “vineyard of a man lacking sense”. We don’t know where he was going; we just know that he wasn’t going to this field and vineyard. We know that because he passed by it.
As Solomon passed by it, he tells us that the field was overgrown with thorns and covered with nettles and wall of the vineyard was broken down.
At this point, I think we see insight into what made Solomon such a wise man. He could have continued right along on his journey not giving this neglected field a second thought. But he didn’t do that.
Proverbs 24:32 says the following:
“Then I saw and considered it; I looked and received instruction.”
Verses 33-34 record the insight that Solomon gained as he saw, considered and was willing to receive instruction from this neglected field.
I think that this is what separates the wise from the unwise.
The wise take the time to stop and think on what they see…
and in humility, they receive instruction from what they have seen.
In other words, as the wise pass by life…they don’t let it pass by. They learn from it.
Marriage, work, parenting, soul care…there are positive and negative examples all around us. Let’s be like Solomon; stop, consider and receive.
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