kingdom travelin'

wouldn’t a simple life be great?

my sweet anna and i went for a walk around the pond last night… as you can see it was growing toward darkness… the colors were beautiful…

around this pond is a path on which we walk…

we know the path well… it is clearly marked… it is really a pavement

life’s path is not always so clearly marked… but there is One who we can follow… last Sunday, anna and i went for a hike… i let her lead the way because i wanted to follow…

so she led the way…

all i had to do was follow…

i knew she knew the way through the forest…

i trusted her to lead me in the right direction…

following God is like that, knowing He knows the way and

trusting him to lead in the right direction… all we have to do is follow Him…

why is trusting so hard for us sometimes? when we figure out the answer to THAT question we will be able to follow Him better… so… what IS that answer?

Look at this picture…

this kid, let’s call him Sasha, is looking out of a “window” in the basement of an apartment building in a very COLD Ukrainian city… note the snow… Sasha is a ‘street kid’…

I’ve been there many times when it was so cold that when I took my gloves off to shoot a picture, my hands were tingling from the cold before I got my gloves back on…

I was just visiting… I slept where it was warm…

Sasha (look at the picture again…) lives on the street…

There are soooo many of these kids who need help… I have friends who are making a REAL difference in these kids lives…

This morning in the church I attend, a couple told their story of adopting a kid from an orphanage from Kazakhstan… as they told their story, tears welled in my eyes as I was reminded of Sasha…

A great deal of help is needed… if you would like to help just go to the ministry website to learn more… please, let’s give kids like Sasha a chance to sleep in the warm.

this is my water bottle…

from it i drink water…

but when it is empty, i can’t pour anything out…

we are just like that…

we can’t pour into people when we are dry…

it takes regular filling to have anything to pour into people…

so we must be sure to keep ourselves spiritually hydrated…

with the living water!

do you ever get spring fever?

spring is a really busy time for me…

but I think I have spring fever… here, from my front garden (yard to Americans) is the bursting forth of color from the dead leaves from last fall…

new life bursts forth from the ground…

in some conversations yesterday the topic of does God answer prayers came up… I said yes… I believe that God listens, cares and acts… but sometimes… we have to go through winter to get to spring… we need to pray and wait sometimes… so we need to hang on… spring is coming!

ok, no attempts at interesting thoughts… just a couple of pix from my trip west… near Santa Cruz