Where Games of Knockout Meet Grace...and a Chance to Launch Lisa-Jo's Book

Hey Friends,

As much as I try to write more consistently, there are deadlines and proposals and lesson plans, and rounds of knockout to watch. Some of those have consequences if I don't do them...For example, if I don't do my lesson plans, the hands-on activity about David and Goliath might only consist of coloring a free printable rather than searching for the perfect stone outside and relating it to the way God searches for each of us and we are perfect because of what He did on the cross. Now, which one seems more fun to you?

And some of my choices may have personal consequences. For example, I need to do more with my children than just be a drill sergeant and check off what chores they did before they are allowed their electronics for today. I want to cheer for them when they make a basket from the middle of the lawn and show the appropriate surprise when they put Maddie, our Shih-poo, on the skateboard.

And yet, that is why I write...to take the ordinary and see how God weaves the message of His Son dying on the cross into every interaction we have. It is not just the dying, but the raising.

It is the hope after the hurt.
It is replacing the wonder for the worry.
It is the stepping out and seeking out.
It is the magic of the moment when the moment is ordinary, but also very extraordinary.

xo,

Angie