Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing?

Our family is being refined. Just as the Bible speaks of his children going through the refiner's fire to be purified as silver and gold...we have felt the fire...and now we come through with hopes that our Maker can see his reflection in us!

I've been going over some verses lately...and transformed...yes! In 1 Thess 5:23 the Word says, "Now may the God of peace Himself sanctify you completely; and may your whole spirit, soul, and body be preserved blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ." Notice here the order these are written. First SPIRIT, then SOUL, and BODY is last. Have you noticed the world puts the body first...we eat all kinds of rich and delightful foods, we obsess over our body images, we focus on the appearance of ourselves - what we will wear! I've come to grips that I have also fallen short in this area...whoa.

Then Jesus speaks about this very issue in Matt chapter 6.....

“Therefore I say to you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing? ²⁶ Look at the birds of the air, for they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they?

³¹ “Therefore do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ ³² For after all these things the Gentiles seek. For your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. ³³ But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.



I believe these things of the flesh, the food, the clothing, the drink....they can cause our relationship with the almighty Father to become murky, distant, vague....

When was the last time you gave up a meal to become LOVESICK with the Father of Creation?

Patrick's 35 Birthday

Happy Birthday Daddy!

Surprise!

Paintball...the best gift ever!

Luke's version of paintball!

Nevan & Luke

These brothers are now actually starting to play together! I love to see how Nevan watches every move Luke makes....learning always! I continue to tell Luke he must be a great role model for Nevan!

Our sweet little Thanksgiving

We had the honor of sharing this precious time with our neighbors, friends, and well....family! Beau, Marcella and Baby Gabriella Rightmeyer invited us to have a wonderful thanksgiving with them! We had a marvelous time...two turkeys...Patrick deep fried one, and Marcella baked one! And all the sides you can think of!

Marcella made indian headdresses for all the kids! Sooooo cute!

After dinner we all went over to Station #2 to celebrate dessert with Ed and Sherie and their fam! We had so much fun there, where Ed was giving rides in the basket of one of the fire trucks! It was sooo much fun!