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. . . but it could be.

We made an offer on what will hopefully be our first owned home today.
God is so unbelievably and undeservedly good to us.
Prayers are appeciated immensely.

(Visited another church today, so there will be a new Church Search post in the next day or two.)

(Thanks to Girl Talk for this. Yes, I read a blog called “Girl Talk.” Shut up. It’s by the Mahaney ladies.)

I plan on praying this over Zoë (and our future kids) regularly before I put her down for bed . . .

“Apply Your redemption to her heart, by justifying her person, and sanctifying her nature. Teach her to place her happiness in Thee, the blessed God, never seeking life among the dead things of earth, or asking for that which satisfies the deluded; but may she prize the light of Thy smile, implore the joy of Thy salvation, find their heaven in Thee.”

I might even leave the “Thees” and “Thys” in there.

Again, no Sunday reflection . . . no Church Search update. For the first time in a long time, we didn’t go to church anywhere on Sunday. Last week was because it was Fathers’ Day, and we just decided to hang out as a family all day; this week, we were in the car, on our way to Grace Central, but as we were approaching, we saw that the streets were lined with cars and that tons of people were walking around. Seems that we’d forgotten that Comfest, Columbus’ big hippie-LGBT-and-general-liberal brouhaha, was this weekend and that GCPC is right in the midst of it all. Funny thing was, I actually wanted to go to Lifepoint tonight, but Amy wanted to go to Grace Central. Since she actually gave me some input, I gladly went where she wanted. Guess it just wasn’t to be tonight.

The lack of corporate worship the last couple of weeks has made me realize that Sundays have indeed become my weekly “personal time with God with other people around” (one of the very things I railed against in this very blog a few weeks ago). Daily time for personal (and family) worship and prayer has become almost non-existent. Sure, I’ll sit for a while and read some scripture pretty much every day, but it’s really gotten to the point where I’m doing it just to say that I’ve done it. Very little has taken root lately. I need your prayers . . . especially if I expect to be this family’s spiritual head.

A momentary diversion to wish my little girl a happy second birthday!