What a wonderful world...

Louis Armstrong, his velvet voice filling the room "I think to myself, what a wonderful world", always brings a smile to my face. I have told my family for years I want this song to play at my funeral. It is such a joyful, bittersweet picture of life. What would I do if I knew I only had two weeks to live, give or take a week? No one really knows when they will die, some have a time frame, a season, most of just hope it is much later then now. The older I get the more I appreciate the verse Philipians 1:21 "to live is Christ, to die is gain". This becomes expounded in my brain to this: to live in this world with all this hurt, joy, and people requires the grace of God to keep breathing, His strength for me to fulfill His purposes; but if I died, when I die, I will see Christ, I will gain everlasting joy. I will gain.

So, the last two weeks? I want to be at home with family and friends. I want to make sure all the important stuff is shared, passed down to the next generation. I want to remember and my children to remember what God has done for us. I want my flowers early to enjoy, along with the faces trying to say good bye without saying good bye. I want to remember it is just fare thee well, till we meet again.

Little House - The Rockie Season

Homer is a faithful Rockies fan. You can imagine his disappointment when we heard the game would not be on tv. Ah, like the old days we pulled out the radio, found 850KOA on the dial and cranked it up. Each beautiful Rockie run was punctuated with a celebratory clap. Marge worked on her afghan while we waited for them to win. Alas, a painful ending, we followed every pitch, every call, and yet we fell to Philly.

Now, about those Broncos..

Grandma & Grandpa's big weekend!

When Homer & Marge lived in Colorado years ago they attended a little church called Harvest Fellowship. It met in a storefront between the liquor store and the pool hall on main street Brighton. They grew enough to need to move to a local school and dreamed of their own building. Homer & Marge helped in their own small way with fund raising and donations, as did all the members of the church. The long awaited building was completed in April. This weekend Homer & Marge attended the Saturday night service with Shirley and the Sunday morning service with Susan. The door greeter asked if they were visitors, and we said "No, they have come back home." Many people recognized them and they were showered with hugs and kisses.

Sunday was Josiah's birthday and Rebekah hosted a great party for their friends and family. We saw 1116 pictures of their Alaska trip, had great food, great fellowship, and fantastic cobbler and cake. Homer & Marge enjoyed an evening with their grandkids and longtime family friends.

The house hunt continues, we want to make sure we get them in a good location in a great house. Plus, we want to make sure Grandpa has the garden weeded and grandma has crocheted us all the afghans we want before they move! She just finished one and is about to start another.

We're engaged!

Rebekah and I got engaged on May 9th, 2009! After a long hike up Green Mountain in Boulder, around the Flatirons, we settled on a good rock (now dubbed Ring Rock) for a picnic lunch. After munching, Beka reached in the pack for desert and found the ring box. After I opened the empty box, I found the ring where Maria had hid it in another box in my pack. Thanks, Maria, for keeping it interesting!

Tentatively we have set the date for July 18th. View photos from the day here.

Giving glory to Creator through creativity

Her world-class art is selling for between 50,000 and 1 million dollars. She's 12 years old. She's been on every imaginable tv show. She says she has seen heaven (who can argue with her with paintings like that?). She's a devoted believer who desires to tell and show others about the love she's experienced.

Akiane, an amazingly gifted and anointed young girl, is showing what happens when a person is truly gifted, and then anointed, to carry out their task.

Check out her photos, poetry and bio at her site, http://www.akiane.com

let in the warmth

The day has beckoned me to throw open the doors and windows, let in the warmth,
freshen the stale winter air, and clean the house! I have let the few bees out that got
lost and wandered inside - where do these bees come from?- and proceeded to dust,
vacuum, sort out, throw out. This I have done, but only one corner of the sunroom is clean.
Hmm. I think I need a three day weekend.