I am a contemplative soul looking for reason and common sense in this world. Occasionally I bump into people that keep these virtues tucked away neatly in their back pocket. These are the people that help keep me sane. Thank you.
I live in beautiful Bend, Oregon. If you haven't made a visit out here.....why not? Mountains, trees, rivers, lakes, trails, and lots of sunshine. You won't be disappointed. Promise.
Welcome to the annual Cheek Family attempt to take a good picture for prayer card purposes. Each year is a riot. Just when you think it couldn't get any worse....it does. Nice going guys--love the background, love the denim, love the red hair. Perfect for a prayer card that you will take all over the U.S.
Silas and Amanda are coming for a visit tomorrow. Looking forward to hanging out and making fun of them. It's gonna be awesome. Any suggestions from the crowd?
"When good and bad men suffer alike, they are different even though the sufferings are the same trials; though what they endure is the same, their virtue and vice are different. For in the same fire, gold gleams and straw smokes; with the same threshing tool the stalk is crushed and the grain threshed. So too, the tide of trouble will test, purify, and improve the good--but beat, crush and wash away the wicked. So it is that, under the weight of the same affliction, the wicked deny and blaspheme God--and the good pray to Him and praise Him. The difference is not in what people suffer but in the way they suffer." -Saint Augustine, City of God
Ever have a contest with your friends or siblings to see who could build the best Lego creation? This guy definitely would've kicked our you know what... Check this out:
