Here comes the sun....

Well it seems the cold is over somewhat here in the okanagan. We have had a couple of double digit days and i dont think its even getting frosty at night anymore. yeah!!!! Our adoption course starts next week and ive had a lot of calls about work this week so things are good. God is good! It really is strange how that works. Phillip Yancey says when you pray quite often your not sur eif God has answered your prayers but if you do it on a consistent basis you sure see alot more "coincidences". Ive never been that good at praying out loud because my thoughts are always so random. They never finish and are usually fragments. So if I have to pray out loud I lose my train of thought pretty easily or I cant think of the next word to finish the sentence. Maybe its practice. I had the opportunity to meet with a pastor yesterday and when we had finished chatting he said he would like to pray for me and whats going on these days. It was like he had pre written what he was going to say and it was long and legible. I was a little jealous but then I thought hes supposed to know how to pray! And now after thinking about it we all know how to pray its just like we all know how to talk. And praying is us talking to God. Reading the bible on the other hand is a trick I was reading recently that we didnt have verses and chapters untill the 1500s which made me wonder how did people before that time read the bible? And how would you preach a sermon if you didnt have verses to quote. You could only really preach on whole letters from the apostles because it would have to be referenced as to what was being said. You dont open any book and just grab two lines out of it and make that mean something. The whole wives obey your husbands would never be able to be preached as a male shovenist because you would have to read the whole thing. I didnt know there was a second part to that until I was 33. And what should "church" look like? Thats another one that messes with our current model. If we have designed our church services after early greek pagan ceremonies are we missing out on some important parts of our walk with God and others? We have a book full of teachings and it would seem we have very little true understanding as to what it really means. We have history in it. We have future in it. And then we have present. But where are the dividing lines. What is old law and what is new covenant? And does one really overrule the others? Lots of questions but few answers. and noone really does seem to have the answers. Strange.