Tuesday Morning

The Lord has amazed me and taught me so much as I have been reading through 2 Corinthians. It has gone along with so many of the issues I am dealing with in my heart. I look at the way Paul writes to the Corinthians and think of the deep love he had for these people. He longed for others to know Jesus. You can tell the passion and urgency he writes with. It makes me look at life and see that I totally don't get it at times. I don't live with a true urgency that this day could be all I have and who needs to have the glory?
If we all lived that way things would look entirely different. I wondered if we respond to life as much as we respond to death? When we loose those around us our hearts go through a lot and we are reminded of how precious our time is on earth. However, most of the time that realization rubs off sooner than we hope. I would type out all of 2 Corinthians right now because it is incredible....but I will leave you with where I was yesterday in hopes that it will encourage your heart this day.

2 Corinthians 4:7-15
7 But we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this all-surpassing power is from God and not from us. 8We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; 9persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed. 10We always carry around in our body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body. 11For we who are alive are always being given over to death for Jesus' sake, so that his life may be revealed in our mortal body. 12So then, death is at work in us, but life is at work in you.

13It is written: "I believed; therefore I have spoken."With that same spirit of faith we also believe and therefore speak, 14because we know that the one who raised the Lord Jesus from the dead will also raise us with Jesus and present us with you in his presence. 15All this is for your benefit, so that the grace that is reaching more and more people may cause thanksgiving to overflow to the glory of God.


Update on Eli:
Preschool seems to still be going well.
His teacher said he was such a good friend.
He learned to play duck duck goose yesterday at Kidsplex and it was priceless!
He attempts to say the pledge and always says amen, amen at the end...it's so funny.
When we are out together he says Daddy so loud that no one could miss it...it cracks me up...Chris doesn't like any attention, but thinks the way he says his name is precious!
More to come...it's time for Eli to wake up and head to another day of school!