My Mega Plant

Last night we compared Caleb to his dad at the same age, 7 months. Tonight we are checking out the change in a Philodendron plant we had when John was 7 months old with what it looks like today. It is my Mega Plant. If I didn't have a great room, there would be no place to keep it. But I'm glad to have it here. It covers a large expanse of floor that looks rather bare without it.

Today Ron and I went to hear his cousin preach his farewell sermon. He is retiring and moving to Florida for the winters. He has done a wonderful job building a small church into a large one. One reason it has grown so well is, he does not hesitate to preach the Bible as it is. His sermons are on the point. He can hit you hard with the truth and yet help everyone realize that God offers grace and salvation for all who will follow him. He also laces his sermons with humor.

Today he concluded his lesson by saying that our country is in the mess it is in now because we have not obeyed his law. And I say a big amen to that.

And then there are some of us who really try to do what God would want us to do.

In the Bible study I'm doing with the Beth Moore book on the Psalms of Accent, I read a passage this morning, written on the Jewish pilgrimage to Jerusalem: "Have mercy on us, Lord, have mercy on us, for we have endured much contempt. We have endured much ridicule from the proud, much contempt from the arrogant. " Psalms 123:3-4

As Conservative Christians, we have been living under a cloud of contempt from the arrogant in our political parties. But we must remember that we are on God's side. "If God is for us, who can be against us?" Romans 8:31