All 10 Popes

A certain dear Christmas-loving, English teaching, Mexico living, sister-in-Christ friend, Melody tells me it's time for another post. And since I have some of the best, most wonderful family-friends in the world who took our children for the weekend I have some "extra" time to plunk around here. And dear ones, you must know that that handsome man I call love is snoozing on the couch and so it is sort of a sacrifice to be typing here and not cuddled right up next to him. Nap or type? It was a hard call, but the computer won...just this once. You can thank me later...or not, depending on how much of your time you wasted, er, I mean spent reading in this place. Ok, enough rambling. The thoughts in my brain have been a bit scrambled lately. I find myself repeating myself a lot. And not just to people shorter than myself (AKA children.)  Pregnancy brain, I could blame it on, I guess. So that is just what I will do! ...

There she goes. Saying it again, better than I would ever dare. Yup, Ann says about this 2014 New Year: "She preached the Gospel to herself: Sure Mount Everest might loom in front of you, that mountain you have to climb in the next 364 days. But the deal is: Every mountain that every Christin ever faces, the Lord levels with sufficient grace: The Lord Will Provide . You don't have to climb mountains named I Will Perform. You don't have to climb mountains named I Will Produce. Jesus flattens that mountain before you with His Grace: The Lord will Provide. With enough strength. With enough wisdom. With More Than Enough of Himself . More important than you trying to muster up sufficient grit and determination for the new year -- is that you simply accept His sufficient grace and liberation every day ." ~Ann Voscamp (writing at A Holy Experience . Posted 1/1/2014) So when a dear friend asks, "HOW in the WORLD do you do that??!! How WILL you do that??...