My new *other*blog

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the one that says The Musings of the Iceberg? Well, that's a less serious blog for me. Just random thoughts. Insights. Whatever. Mothing really personal. Just more general thoughts and random ideas. It's not going to be nearly as in depth as posts here are, just questions and brief observations. Thanks!

Potty Training

Why does the first part of Potty Training feel more like the child training the parent, rather than the other way round?

A great day to be alive

Today was a good day. Not because something really great happened, (though just being with my family for any part of the day is great) but just because God continues to smile on me and my family. Didn't get much chance to pray today, but I did read God's word, and learned new things that I'd probably heard before, but forgot, about Joseph. (You know, the guy with the amazing technicolor dreamcoat?) Work wasn't overly stressful, and I made it home safe to my family once again (this time without missing my bus stop!)

This almost seems like a time of rest, but I can't take time to rest too long. If I rest beyond what I should, I get complacent, and don't do the work I know needs to be done. So God, grant me my full measure of rest before giving me the will to do the task set before me.

My wife went back to the gym today (YAY!) but didn't get a chance to stay long, because our son, still potty training, had a messy diaper, and my wife forgot to bring in the "equipment" to change him... But I know she'll go back... I think she's getting addicted (yay!).

Anyway, it's late, and we're going to see family tomorrow. So it's off to bed for little old me.

As always, keep me and my family in your thoughts and prayers!

Getting cold fast

I told everyone after the hot snap we had back in July that there'd be frost in mid-September. Most people laughed at me. Well, it's now only 63-64 degrees out, and we are going to have the next few days be below 60 for a low... Sounds like global warning to me! That frost sure seems more likely tonight thatn it did 3 weeks ago... Oh well, we'll see who's right in the end...

The mystery of God's way...

How is it that God can fulfill needs without us even asking for them? And why would He do it anyway? Ok, this is a weird one for this blog, but, hey, I figure, it's a musing, it goes here...

I couldn't be more proud...

...of my wife, that is!

What a marvel it's been to be her husband these past few days! God is speaking to her in a great many ways, and I love to see the change that He's bringing about in her.

I've often been told by her that she doesn't know how to change, but by God's own grace, she is changing even so! We may not know what we need to change, but God does. He fills in where we fail, if we let Him. And my wife is living proof! Oh, how I love to see the transformation God has begun, and will complete in His time. I'm beginning to see that it's not always what we do, or what we planto do, but by what we allow God to do in our lives that really matters when change needs to take place. A simple act of submission and surrender to Him can make all the difference.

Bless my wife with your prayers the rest of this week, and next week, if you can spare the time. (I can never do it enough myself!) Lift her up, so that she can see that God's will is beginning to show in her. You can also pray for me, that's always welcome, but I need help in putting into action what I see in my wife.

Thanks for listening!

Is this weird weather, and am I wrong?

Ok, by everything I'm seeing, what with the unseasonably cool weather we're having here, (in Minnesota) and me hearing the frost bugs way early this year, I think we're going to have the first frost this year about early- to mid-September. Do you think I'm nuts? And we're beginning to have to close up the house at night. That's just plain wrong...

A heart-warming morning

I had the great pleasure this morning of having my prayer time with my daughter. Hearing her sincere prayer and childlike faith made the whole time so much more meaningful. It reminded me of the faith that God talks about, that childlike faith. Not assuming anything, just glad to talk to Him.

Thank you, sweetheart, for teaching me what God wanted to teach me today...

Random thought...

I was just wondering if any aspiring physicists or astrophysicists could answer me this:

Could Gravity be nothing more than  the EM attraction of a larger mass upon a smaller one? 
Or maybe the attraction between opposing strong forces? 

Just a random theory I came up with last night...


Discuss...

The Weight of Glory

I was told recently, by a friend, that the word "glory" also means "weight." I believe I am beginning to feel the press, the weight of God in my life, and I'm so glad for it. I've made it two mornings in a row now waking long before my kids, and before my own wife, and praying and reading the Bible. While the reading has not spoken to me, yet, (because I fully expect God to reveal Himself to me this way at some point. I wait on Him.) The prayers are becoming a craving, a passion. Everytime I do pray, I am beginning to feel God press into me. I feel Him aching to keep talking to me. Well, more importantly me talking to Him. And I really think I see that God craves our voice as much or more than we crave to hear His. When we pray, He draws nearer, catching us in His arms, drawing us near to Him, wrapping us in His boundless love. That is the press that I'm talking about. Right now, my heart is aching because of that brief moment of coming to Him "just as I am". I've short-changed God for too long. And though I don't know when the deep meaning of His word will speak to me again; rather, when I will understand again what it's always been telling me, I know now that I will continue to hunger and thirst for God's time with me in the morning.

A spot for random thoughts.

I have another blog called "A Huge Blog of Ice". This is not the same thing. This is where I'll post my random things. Thoughts, humourous or not. I just need a place to get my mind out and see the world! So if you liked my other blog, see if you like this one. THANKS!

God is so good

Don't ask me why I titled this post this way. Suffice it to say that I'm seeing why this is the case everyday, more and more. He is always faithful!

I don't know what this day, or even this very hour will bring. I only know that God knows my name. I only know that He loves me. I only know that He is forever patient with me. I only know that He has not forgotten me, nor even given up on me. God's greatness is always seen in our pettiness. His strength found in our weakness. His love evident in His ever-enduring love and patience toward us.

God doesn't look at our past failures and use them as excuses or reasons not to love or not to bless or not to comfort us. God loves us even when we have failed Him at every turn. Or at least when we feel like we have.

"What is man that Thou art mindful of him?" I may never know the answer to that question untilI see Him face to face. Obviously more than I give "man" credit for. What are we that we deserve such a precious gift? Actually, I'm not sure that He loves us because we deserve it at all. He just does.

I may never know the answers to these questions while I'm here, on this earth. And, you know what? I'm not all that bothered by it. In fact, I don't want to know. Because in knowing, I'd lose that awe, that amazement in Him. I'm sick of leaning on my own foolish wisdom. I want to truly reflect His glory. I want to show...whoever...God's beauty. Maybe I should start that right here at home, since that's where He probably wants me to start. Yeah, maybe I'll do that...

Ok, ok, ok... I get the point

Ok, so I haven't posted here in ages. I'm so sorry. I don't know what came over me... Oh, yeah I do... That little thing called life.

It's funny how that little thing keeps popping its little head up whenever it wants to, and steals all your time. But I'm back to say that things are...well, if not looking up, at least looking level for a while. I like that feeling. Things going steady for a change. I hope that this starts a gradual slope up, which would be really good. God continues to bless me and my family even when we (ok, I) don't deserve to be. Ok, at least I don't feel like I deserve to be blessed much of the time, but of course, that's why He's God, and not me. If I was God, well, I'd have scrapped the whole thing long ago and wrote it off as a bad idea. But then again, that's why I'm glad I'm not God.

So, anyway, that's how life's been in my world. And, yes... I'll try to be a good boy and let you all know what's going on more often.


By the by, have I ever told you all how proud I am of my dear wife? She's awesome in that she has somehow found out how to change without really knowing how to change. She used to say to me, "How can I change if I don't know how to?" Well, apparently you do it by changing... What a circle, and what a concept! Just start doing something different! That's cool, and before you know it, things will have changed, too. Hopefully for the better, since the reason you changed was probably because you didn't like where you were in the first place.

Sweetheart, I love you! You inspire me on so many levels! God continue to bless us as He blesses you more!