Until I can fit into normal clothes again, I plan to wear a lot of scarves. Now I have some ideas to keep the look from getting boring!

Oh – and someone add scarves to my Christmas list…

Allerbling – fun name, first of all. And secondly, highly practical. My friend, Emily, sent me a link to their website a couple years ago and I bought a bracelet for Bryce immediately. He was 3-years old, recently diagnosed with a dairy and egg allergy added to his nut allergy, and we were looking ahead to situations such as a week at Maranatha, where he would be supervised by college students and fed snacks daily. He was a little young to trust to communicate his allergy or to evaluate if something was safe, and just writing down or telling the person at check-in seemed inadequate. So we trained him to show the child care workers his bracelet (which he loved and was so happy to wear! made him feel special I think) when it was snack-time, so they could remember about his allergies and confirm the snack was safe. I also checked in ahead of time to see what was being served, read the ingredients, and make contact with someone in the room familiar with food allergies and label-reading, but this was a good double-check. He still chooses to bring it to school, kept primarily in his backpack, but he’ll slip it on occasionally too. There are so many things he can’t have that others can that I kinda like when there is something he has that others don’t, even if it’s a bright orange rubber bracelet.

“Time is so short, and the work which we have to do in it is so great, that we have none of it to spare. The work which we have to do to prepare for eternity, must be done in time, or it never can be done; and it is found to be a work of great difficulty and labor, and therefore that for which time is the more requisite” (Jonathan Edwards).

Well, here’s a cheater post if I ever wrote one! The above quote is a a snippet of a longer quote from a blogpost referencing another work! So it’s like a third-hand sentiment but I read it on the Cripplegate page last week, and have been thinking about it since.  So if you have 2 minutes, redeem the time and read the original post (Time Management in Light of Eternity). And if you have 30 minutes, consider it a time investment to read the sermon (The Preciousness of Time and the Importance of Redeeming It)!

For all my friends of both sexes who could desperately use this. Enjoy!

Last week I had the pleasure of stumbling across a blog called The Cripplegate, whose contributing team includes many guys Jason went to seminary with or whom I otherwise knew through TMS & GCC connections, all of whom were (and apparently still are) critical thinkers and eloquent writers who love the Lord and treasure His Word. Nate Busenitz’ post on the proper understanding of Philippians 4:13 last week was something I wanted to write about at some point, but seeing as there is nothing I could add to it, let me just direct you there. Browse around the site while you’re at it. Good stuff.