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Love Is Here

Sudi — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 13:36:20 +0000

I’m taking a Systematic Theology class this summer. We are studying the Life and Works of Christ. It is a very intense study, one that can not be a mere academic exercise, at least not when you know Jesus intimately as Savior. This morning I am getting ready to read my chapter on Salvation. Steven was playing Christian radio in the background and this song came on. I stopped what I was doing to listen. I felt incredible gratitude to realize that because of Him, LOVE IS HERE, LOVE IS NOW, LOVE IS NEAR, indeed!

LISTEN HERE

come to the waters, you who thirst and you’ll thirst no more.
come to the father, you who work and you’ll work no more.
and all you who labor in vain and to the broken and shamed:

love is here.
love is now.
love is pouring from
his hands, from his brows.
love is near,it satisfies.
streams of mercy flowing from his side.
cuz love is here.

come to the treasure, you who search and you’ll search no more.
come to the lover you who want and you’ll want no more, no.
and all you who labor in vain and to the broken and shamed,

yeah:

love is here.
love is now.
love is pouring from his hands, from his brows.
love is near, it satisfies.
streams of mercy flowing from his side.

yeah

and to the bruised and fallen,
captives, bound, and broken hearted.
he is the lord
he is the lord,
yeah

by his stripes he’s paid our ransom
from his wounds we drink salvation

he is the lord
he is the lord

love is here.
love is now.
love is pouring from his hands, from his brows.
love is near,
it satisfies.
streams of mercy flowing from his side.
streams of mercy flowing from his side. cuz love is here
love is here.

Love is Here- Alleluia!
MARK 10:45 “For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”

The Benbrook Bandit

Sudste — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 03:25:37 +0000

And now, our Feature Presentation…

The Windy City

Steven — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 21:55:50 +0000

I’m fascinated by weather. Wind is weather and so I present you with these numbers from weather.com. It’s exceptionally windy right now.

Benbrook, TX at 4:45 PM

Wind: 35 MPH, gusting to 50 MPH
40% Humidity
94 Degrees

It doesn’t feel like 94 degrees. Must be the wind!

Windiest Big Cities

We also must debunk the myth that Chicago is the windy city. I present you with average wind speeds from big American cities.

Milwaukee - 11.5 MPH
Dallas-Fort Worth - 10.7 MPH
San Francisco Airport - 10.6 MPH (I don’t think airports should count)
Minneapolis-St Paul - 10.5 MPH
Chicago - 10.3 MPH (hah!)
Detroit - 10.3 MPH
Philadelphia - 9.5 MPH
Miami - 9.2 MPH
Seattle - 8.9 MPH
Houston - 7.7 MPH
Los Angeles - 7.5 MPH

You Learn Something New Every Day

Steven — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 02:10:01 +0000

Today I learned that in North Texas you can edge your lawn during Spring at 9 PM because it’s still bright out. I also learned that battery powered edgers work! Since I don’t have a cordless electric blower yet I’m going to see if the wind blows the clippings away overnight. There’s pretty much been a constant stream of 20 MPH wind all Spring. Eat your heart out Chicago.

Benbrook Lake

Steven — Mon, 19 May 2008 01:41:02 +0000

I took this shot of Benbrook Lake from a parking lot atop Longhorn Park which is next to Benbrook Dam. It’s 8:38 PM and 83 degrees right now. We saw a big frog in our yard today. The last two bits of information were random. Yup.

Birthday At The Harbor

Sudi — Mon, 05 May 2008 01:29:03 +0000

Today is my birthday! My baby love took me to a place he discovered east of Dallas, called The Harbor at Rockwall TX. We ate delicious Italian food at the Valore Restaurant and were served by a real life Italian waiter that took our picture. We got coffee and white cake at The Celebrity Cafe and Bakery. The Harbor is truly a beautiful place! It made us feel right at home by the water. The weather was perfectly warm and breezy. O Happy Day!

A while back I told Steven that I wanted a tennis ball to hang from our garage as a mark for the car to not go further, not because of it’s practical use but because I always thought was a very “american dream” type-a-thing to do. I also told him I wanted the tennis ball to be pink instead of green, which by the way I never knew existed. So this morning I opened this little package and there it was my pink tennis ball.

Little things that say “I love You” are the ones that mean the very most.
This song by Amy Grant says how I feel today:

You can thank the Father
For the things that He has done.
And thank Him for the things He’s yet to do.
And if you find a love that’s tender,
If you find someone who’s true,
Thank the Lord –
He’s been doubly good to you….

April Fun Photos

Steven — Mon, 05 May 2008 01:14:36 +0000

Here are some photos from April. We went to Lake Granbury, a Southwestern Seminary picnic, a “Mexico City” restaurant in Plano. There’s also a picture of Sudi operating a power tool (cool, huh Dad?) and some shots of visitors to our backyard.

Texas Wildflowers

Steven — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 12:46:24 +0000

“Texas Highways” by K a i r o s

“Curiosity Becomes Him” by slight clutter

There are wildflowers popping up all around here - white, pink, yellow, red and blue. They grow on the grassy areas along the side of the highways and in fields. We’ve noticed people taking pictures of their kids in the blue flowers and now I know why. Bluebonnets are the Texas state flower and they are only going to be around for a little while. Here is a nice flickr set by Jeff Clow called The Bluebonnet Trail.

Petuniaville, TX

Sudi — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 01:11:59 +0000

Spring is here and we have succeeded on our first gardening experience. We started three weeks ago by having Weed-Man come over and remove some old shrubs and other ugly landscaping the previous owner left behind. We wanted to start fresh and do our own thing. We bought all our supplies, plants, soil and flowers at the THE PLANT SHED a local greenhouse. There we met Libby, who tutored us and told us all we needed to know about planting a flower garden. So here it is, 30 bags of top soil, 10 bags of manure, 1 bag of hardwood mulch, 3 Forsinthia bushes and 71 white and purple petunias later, our masterpiece.~

It’s beginning to look a lot like…Spring???

Steven — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 02:21:35 +0000

This past week we noticed the neighbors’ trees starting to grow leaves and bloom flowers. The grass in our backyard by the door is starting to wake up and turn green too. Wonderful. Spring is here!

But, Texas weather is really exciting. One day it’s 70 degrees and sunny. The next day, while listening to the radio, you hear “csssssh… beeeeeeep! This is an emergency alert…” and an hour later you’ve got two Christmas ferns in your front yard! On average, Benbrook gets less than an inch of snow each year.

Here are some pictures and a video (below the slidesnow- I mean show)from our street. Don’t forget to look at General Wintermix, a snowman who showed up in our backyard today. Did I just say that? What, “our backyard” or “snowman?” Both!