Snapshots, strawberries, and the supremacy of Christ

Caption: The first picture is more evidence that I am blessed. Picture #2 is of my baby and five-year-old. The third picture was taken recently at the Imax movie at the Space Center. There is a free local resident day every year in September for all my Floridian friends. The picture below is proof that I wasn’t kidding a few posts ago when I said that we take waiting for our guests seriously. We had company this weekend, and the picture is of my third child waiting in the cul-de-sac.

The picture layout is evidence that I am HTML challenged. Sorry to RSS readers.

To follow-up on the post below, I checked local garden centers and Florida strawberry websites (for any shipping possibilities) and found no strawberries. I did, however, find starters of pumpkins, watermelons, and various other things that are not appropriate to plant now. For most things, I plant seeds indoors so that I can have them on hand to put in the ground at the best time, but strawberries are planted by runners. Which I will continue not to have.

So, I am looking on the bright side: I can know for sure that it is not the Lord’s will that I grow strawberries this year. Yep, I’m getting it right in this area. For whatever He calls us to do, He always supplies. Elisabeth Elliot encourages us on the subject in this way, “Sometimes I am asked to speak to young people who are toying with the idea of being missionaries. They want to know how I discovered the will of God. The first thing was to settle once and for all the supremacy of Christ in my life, I tell them. I put myself utterly and forever at His disposal, which means turning over all the rights: to myself, my body, my self-image, my notions of how I am to serve my Master…I tell these earnest kids that the will of God is always different from what they expect, always bigger, and, ultimately, infinitely more glorious than their wildest imaginings.”