BUT A POOR REFLECTION: Fun in the snow

Thursday, February 08, 2007

Fun in the snow

Girls just wanna have fun...

8 comments:

Art said...: Glad you got some snow too. The kids love it don't they? Have fun!; 2/08/2007 7:29 pm
Katrín said...: Hi there! Thank you for the encouragement :) Finals ahead, you know! There are stacks of notes and papers and books on my desk and although I feel like that girl in the pic I know that I will get through the pile... one page at a time ;) God give me concentration and discipline to study and not get overwhelmed. Thanx for reminding me of that verse too. It does help to know that I can draw my strength and help from God, also in this!

-Katrin

PS. Looks like your daughters had great fun in the snow!!! Cute pictures!; 2/08/2007 8:42 pm
Paul said...: Yep, but only the blonde girl is my daughter Pascalle - the other girl (with the green shawl and hat) is her friend Kimberley from school. They had a great time together this afternoon, and I enjoyed watching them - sitting and typing in a warm living room. The girls had red noses, red cheeks... but they just didn't care about the cold and the dirt on the ground, ha ha!; 2/08/2007 8:56 pm
Carolanne said...: Great photos Paul, from the last 2 posts. :)
I had the impression that Holland had snow more often than not!
My friend Arie (BMF) tells me stories of his childhood in Holland and mostly it's about snow, cold and dark and what they did in the snow, cold and dark!; 2/08/2007 9:33 pm
Paul said...: Yeah, it used to be slightly colder than the North Pole here, but due to global warming we will soon have tropical beaches and palm trees here... Fancy a coconut? ;-); 2/08/2007 10:16 pm
Vicki said...: Hmm, getting warmer in Holland? Palm trees and coconuts? Does that mean things will be topsy-turvy someday and that Florida will have snow and ice? Maybe I shouldn't have given away my snow shovel when we moved south.

Funny you should mention the North Pole...Doc and I were at the other North Pole (the one in Alaska) in 2004, and it was incredibly HOT! I think the temperature hit the low 90s (Fahrenheit) each day we were there.; 2/09/2007 2:11 am
Paul said...: Well, our snow is almost completely gone already :-(
It is clear that the temperatures are rising all over the world. Looks like mother earth has a fever. I'm sure we are (at least partly) to blame for it because of the polution of the air. I did hear that the ice on the South Pole is growing! (Didn't check this information) Maybe the changing temperatures are also caused by the changing activity of the sun? We've had ice ages too, so there is a long term climate variation too...; 2/09/2007 8:21 am
Rev Phil said...: I am jealous for all that snow, after some nice cold weather in Hong Kong its back to being humid.

Would love to give you more information about Crossroads and Sue & I. Email me on hkwarners@gmail.com; 2/10/2007 8:14 am

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Have you ever wondered why God gives so much? We could exist on far less. He could have left the world flat and grey; we wouldn’t have known the difference. But he didn’t. He splashed orange in the sunrise and cast the sky in blue. And if you love to see geese as they gather, chances are you’ll see that too. Did he have to make the squirrel’s tail furry? Was he obliged to make the birds sing? And the funny way that chickens scurry or the majesty of thunder when it rings? Why give a flower fragrance? Why give food its taste? Could it be he loves to see that look upon your face?

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Sadhu Sundar Singh

I do not condemn theologians wholesale, but it is unfortunately the fashion in Western thinking to doubt and deny everything. I protest this tendency. I never advise anyone to consult theologians, because all too often they have completely lost all sense of spiritual reality. They can explain Greek words and all that, but they spend too much time among their books and not enough time with the Master in prayer. It is not that I oppose all education, but education without life is certainly dangerous. You must stop examining spiritual truths like dry bones! You must break open the bones and take in the life-giving marrow.

Oswald Chambers

In the Bible clouds are always associated with God. Clouds are the sorrows, sufferings, or providential circumstances, within or without our personal lives, which actually seem to contradict the sovereignty of God. Yet it is through these very clouds that the Spirit of God is teaching us how to walk by faith. If there were never any clouds in our lives, we would have no faith. "The clouds are the dust of His feet" (Nahum 1:3). They are a sign that God is there. What a revelation it is to know that sorrow, bereavement, and suffering are actually the clouds that come along with God! God cannot come near us without clouds— He does not come in clear-shining brightness. (Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest, July 29th)