Wes asks Sophia after she's been visiting her grandparents, "Did you like the food Grandma cooked?"
Sophia replies, "Yeah. Everyone likes pretty much everything Grandma makes, so maybe she should become a chef when she gets older..."
Feb 25, 2013
2nd Sunday of Lent
This week we had Jewish Honey Cake, as the Bible stories we're reading each day for our 40 Days of Lent Calendar happen in the Land Flowing with Milk and Honey. One story from last week was about John the Baptist preparing the way for Jesus, and one of the main things John is recorded as eating was honey. (Next year maybe I need to throw a plastic locust or two into the batter and see what the girls make of that!)
Feb 21, 2013
Sorrow & Joy
Sophia discovered a wobbly bottom tooth last week, and we've been waiting expectantly for it to come out. Unfortunately, it appears to have gone down with a Twix bar Sophia was eating, never to be seen again. Sophia had wanted to keep her first baby tooth, so she was quite upset about this development. However, the money under her pillow the next morning was a good consolation...
Feb 18, 2013
1st Sunday of Lent
I try to use Lent to prepare my family to more fully appreciate Jesus' death and resurrection when we remember them on Good Friday & Easter. So each Sunday in Lent, we have a pre-Easter treat to get us thinking about/thanking God for who Jesus is and what He has done for us. This week I made edible candles to remind us of the words about Jesus from the gospel of John, chapter 1, verses 1-18 (below).
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God...Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.
There was a man sent from God whose name was John. He came as a witness to testify concerning that light, so that through him all might believe. He himself was not the light; he came only as a witness to the light.
The true light that gives light to everyone was coming into the world. He was in the world, and though the world was made through him, the world did not recognize him. He came to that which was his own, but his own did not receive him. Yet to all who did receive him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God--children born not of natural descent, nor of human decision or a husband's will, but born of God.
The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth...
No one has ever seen God, but the one and only Son, who is himself God and is in closest relationship with the Father, has made him known.
There was a man sent from God whose name was John. He came as a witness to testify concerning that light, so that through him all might believe. He himself was not the light; he came only as a witness to the light.
The true light that gives light to everyone was coming into the world. He was in the world, and though the world was made through him, the world did not recognize him. He came to that which was his own, but his own did not receive him. Yet to all who did receive him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God--children born not of natural descent, nor of human decision or a husband's will, but born of God.
The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth...
No one has ever seen God, but the one and only Son, who is himself God and is in closest relationship with the Father, has made him known.
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