Lewis Family & Friends
A place for friends and extended family to share thoughts and activities…blog away…
Happy Easter!
0In Christ alone my hope is found
He is my light, my strength, my song
This cornerstone, this solid ground
Firm through the fiercest drought and storm
What heights of love, what depths of peace
When fears are stilled, when strivings cease
My comforter, my all-in-all
Here in the love of Christ I stand
In Christ alone who took on flesh
Fullness of God in helpless babe
This gift of love and righteousness
Scorned by the ones He came to save
‘Til on that Cross, as Jesus died
The wrath of God was satisfied
For every sin on Him was laid
Here in the death of Christ I live
There in the ground His body lay
Light of the world by darkness slain
Then bursting forth in glorious day
Up from the grave He rose again
And as He stands in victory
Sin’s curse has lost its grip on me
For I am His and He is mine
Bought with the precious blood of Christ
No guilt in life, no fear in death
This is the power of Christ in me
From life’s first cry to final breath
Jesus commands my destiny
No power of hell, no scheme of man
Can ever pluck me from His hand
‘Til He returns or calls me home
Here in the power of Christ I’ll stand
‘Til He returns or calls me home
Here in the power of Christ I stand
Here in the power of Christ alone
Written by Stuart Townend and Keith Getty
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Sean in Spain
4Sean arrived in Spain this morning around 0400 our time (1100 Spain time). They plan on posting notes to this twitter site. More pics and updates as I get them.
Website updated
1Let me know how you like the look of the website.
I’m using a new theme and a new comment tool
Time to clean out the electronic closet!
5I have the following items for sale (friends have priority) and I’m not above giving them away for free…
- DLINK DSM-520 media center.
- Current Price – $50
- Current bidder – Snewpy
- Bidding ends – SOLD…make arrangements with me.
- RCA 5 Disc CD changer (RP-8065) - The eject button does not work, but there is a work around. You can only put 4 discs in and select the empty one and push play and it will eject. This could probably be fixed by someone willing to take it apart.
- Current Price – $0
- current bidder – none
- bidding ends – SOLD, first to claim it owns it.
- Insignia DVD Player (NS-DVD1)
- Current Price – $5
- current bidder – aischad
- bidding ends – SOLD…make arrangements with me.
- Kenwood CD Player (DP-47)
- Current Price – $0
- current bidder – none
- bidding ends – SOLD, first to claim it owns it.
- Allegro DVD/VCR player (ABV341)
- Current Price – $5
- current bidder – Duane M.
- bidding ends – SOLD…make arrangements with me.
Bids open at $0.00. You have to respond to this post to bid.
Always Now
0This is an excerpt from Mere Christianity (C.S. Lewis) and helps, in my mind, explain somewhat the concept of everything you do being known by God.
Everyone who believes in God at all believes that He knows what you and I are going to do tomorrow. But if He knows I am going to do so-and-so, how can I be free to do otherwise? Well, hear once again, the difficulty comes from thinking that God is progressing along the Time-line like us: the only difference being that He can see ahead and we cannot. Well, if that were true, if God foresaw our acts, it would be very hard to understand how we could be free not to do them. But suppose God is outside and above the Time-line. In that case, what we call ‘tomorrow’ is visible to Him in just the same way as what we call ‘today’. All the days are ‘Now’ for Him. He does not remember you doing things yesterday; He simply sees you doing them: because, though tomorrow is not yet there for you, it is for Him. You never supposed that your actions at this moment were any less free because God knows what you are doing. Well, He knows your tomorrow’s actions in just the same way — because He is already in tomorrow and can simply watch you. In a sense, He does not know your action till you have done it: but then the moment at which you have done it is already ‘Now’ for Him.
Forty-Five
0I am Forty Five today, thanks to you good friends that got me this far and celebrated with me…
Bear with the musings of an old man….I found this poem titled 45.
Forty-File by Hayden Carruth
When I was forty-five I lay for hours
beside a pool, the green hazy
springtime water, and watched
the salamanders coupling, how they drifted lazily,
their little hands floating before them,
aimlessly in and out of the shadows, fifteen
or twenty of them, and suddenly two
would dart together and clasp
one another belly to belly
the way we do, tender and vigorous, and then
would let go and drift away
at peace, lazily,
in the green pool that was their world
and for a while was mine.