What Public School Can Never Do

The Coram Deo thought for February 8 from Tabletalk Magazine:

"The fact that God has revealed Himself in nature gives a meaning and purpose to education that is impossible with non-Christian approaches. When we study science, math, photography, business, or any other subject, we are studying laws the Lord has revealed in and through the created order. All truth is God's truth, whether we discover it in the Bible or in the nature sciences or in the liberal arts."

Dr. R.C. Sproul

1 and a Half Years

We will never again be married for 1 year & 6 months. So today, today we bask in this once-in-a-lifetime event and slowly sip and savor our unconditional love.

Our unconditional love that has brought us - by the grace of God - to this point in our marriage: where we have gone through so much in the last year since these two posts (1; 2). Where we have gained and lost our first puppy as husband and wife. Where we have lived and moved from everything we had ever known as husband and wife. Where we have gained our second puppy along with the steadfastness to learn new levels of patience as well as love for an animal we are called to have dominion over (Gen. 1:26). Where we have spent the last seven months praying for and anticipating the arrival of the new life our LORD is forming within my womb.

I look forward to spending many more ____ and a half years with you, Christopher. I am so happy and blessed to have you as my husband. (And not just because you brought me this wonderful slice of cheesecake home yesterday when you arrived home from work, which I ate in celebration of our once-in-a-lifetime milestone.)

Happy 1 and a half years of marriage, husband! I love you! I look forward to looking back to this post one year from today and seeing where God has led us.

Not Me! Monday

Embarrassed that you ran out of kibble for your dog? Feeling bad about taking the garbage to the curb in your jammies? Well, here's the place to air out all your dirty laundry and get it all off your chest! Join in on some "Not Me!" Monday fun, and feel better about yourself when you read what everyone else has not been doing.

I am a great wife. I get tons of housework done while Chris works during the day. So I would never let our laundry get so backed up that I don't have any maternity pants to wear. I mean, hello? Those are the only pants that fit me now. Since I never let this happen, I did not wear a pair of my husband's 1969 GAP jeans last week. They were not too small to fit around my belly that I left the top button unbuttoned. Oh, and I did not go to town wearing said jeans to eat dinner and go grocery shopping with my husband. Nope, I'd never walk around town in boy jeans that were unbuttoned!

I used to have perfectly flawless skin. No, really, it was great. And then I got pregnant, and my hormones reverted back to puberty and my face turned into a middle school fiasco again. I recently had a pretty painful bleeding bump on my cheek, and decided I would put Neosporin on it to kill off bacteria and encourage it to heal faster. After slathering it on before bed, I did not decide to put a waterproof band-aid over the bump to hold the Neosporin in place. I then did not remove the bandage early the next morning and forget to wash my face. The bandage did not leave adhesive that irritated my skin so badly that I didn't have a square red mark on my cheek the entire next day. How embarrassing would that have been?

I know, right? Good thing I didn't do either of those things last week!