Hello friends! This is a busy weekend, so not much commentary from me today to go along with the web links I have been collecting this week!
My 18 year old daughter Joanna is graduating from our former church's home school program, The Regent Academy, tomorrow. My parents are flying in from Maryland this afternoon, just in time for the grad banquet tonight! So I've got to finish cleaning house, make a pineapple pie, go over to the church office to staple and fold the programs (which I designed with a vintage typewriter theme), and help Joanna with her graduation display board.
How do you like the cloud pictures I snapped on my iPod? Nice follow up to last week's fog photos, yes?
Paris - 16 - 19 aprile Amazing photos from Rachel and Joanna's sidetrip to Paris while living in Italy for three months. Louvre, Notre Dame, Eiffel Tower.... I'm jealous!doOLIN, IRELAND {PERSONAL + TRAVEL} by Kristen Leigh at http://www.imkristensblog.com/
As long as we're doing pretty pictures from Europe, I found this blog on my computer screen recently -- one of my daughters had been looking at it. I'm hooked. Kristin is a wedding photographer, but this post is not about a wedding. A very creative blog, especially since my daughter Julia is getting married on October 15!
Love Like Crazy by Sarah Clarkson at http://www.thoroughlyalive.com/"Love like crazy. Love like this wild storm. Live with this goodness rushing through you. I could see a picture of God’s wild love before me in the unbounded beauty of the storm and rush of the wind; saw the unfetteredness of his life in the tangle of new vines and profusion of leaves and zip of the birds. There is nothing that holds itself back either in springtime or in the unexplainable mercy of God’s love for me. And to love like crazy, to love as Christ did, means to love freely, in unbounded gladness. Love must be rampant in its goodness, an untameable force of new life that broaches no resistance. I must love like crazy; love like the blue of the sky in its vast blueness, in its endless drama of color."
Call Me Jacob by Sarah Clarkson at http://www.thoroughlyalive.com/
"If I follow Jacob’s story, then I will cling to God until I am blessed. I will clutch at his arms until he claims me as his own and gives me a name as his child. But I am afraid to end like Jacob, for the tale of his fight is a strange one, and the ending of it, more than I understand. Of course, God won. Jacob could not out-wrestle the one who made his own muscles, nor out-argue the one who gave him speech."
Hope in the Storm #5: God Will Restore by Ginny Jacobson at http://makingthemostofeveryopportunity.blogspot.com/
Ray Ortlund unpacking these verses: “And after you have suffered a little while, the God of all grace, who has called you to his eternal glory in Christ, will himself restore, confirm, strengthen and establish you. To him be the dominion forever and ever. Amen.” 1 Peter 5:10-11
Learning from the Bible's Unsung Heroes by Trevin Wax at http://trevinwax.com
"Nympha opened up her home and let the church meet there. She gave of her resources for the sake of the gospel. You may think you have nothing to give. But Christ can take the most ordinary thing and shape it into a tool for the advancement of His kingdom. He asked to use the boat of some fishermen, and that simple boat became a pulpit to preach to the masses."
Free Desktop Wallpaper with Calendar for June 2011 My daughter Mary sent me this link, and now I have a poppy calendar on my laptop's desktop! Almost 30 others to choose!
Curiosity Journal: June 1, 2011 by Ann Kroeker at www.annkroeker.com
Question for you, folks: "What is this art made of?"
Florida Field Trips #4: Secret Lake Park by Virginia Knowles (Yours Truly!) at www.StartWellHomeSchool.blogspot.com You may not live in the Orlando area, but this post might give you inspiration to visit around at your own local parks with your kids this summer! Catching little fishies with their bare hands? Sure! But I just bought them a net for next time!
And speaking of enjoying nature, last but not least, a bit of birdsong from my morning walk the other day. Why don't we stop to notice little beauty like this more?
Virginia Knowles
www.ComeWearyMoms.blogspot.com
Thank you for including the Curiosity Journal in this fun round-up of great reads! :)
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