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Ohh~ Thanksgiving!
The week started with the typical Thanksgiving preparations~~ none of which I participate in. You see Eric is the THE cook in the family. I am very THANKFUL that I don't have to cook!!
Kiara helped Eric prepare a delicious new recipe of gravy! This is them in their cooking apparel.
O.K., I lied, even though I don't cook, I love to host and I enjoy decorating and stealing ideas from magazines... So here is my shot at a Thanksgiving setting.
This year we had the great honor of having our fellow co-laobrs of SIlver City Mosaic and great friends join us for dinner. We decided that both families would cook and then we contacted our local Volunteer Center to find shut-ins that would need a meal delivered. We got a few names and the picture above shows Daniel and Christopher and Josh (who is taking the pic) delivering a meal to a local man... They had some challenges finding his house (can't always count on google maps)... but eventually they got there. I know he was very grateful for the opportunity to have a thanksgiving meal.
This is a pic of Danny and Jessica Osuna. They are an amazing couple who have been willing to partner with us in establishing Silver City Mosaic. They have spent endless hours of meeting, sharing, and working with us to dream the future. We are so very grateful for them. We had a great morning of serving others in our community with a few meals, and then we came together to eat, drink, and share life together...Exactly what Thanksgiving is all about!
A pic of me, Kiara and Jeanie Osuna (passionate jesus follower and lover of His people, who will be graduating this May from NMSU) and Michaela. My dad also hides well from pics, but of course he was with us for dinner and I have to mention how grateful I am for him, as he does soooo much for us every day. He helps with the kids, the cooking, the firewood, the fire making, the broken doors, the replacing of light bulbs, on and on I could go of all he does to help us!!
I hope all of you had a wonderful day of Giving of Thanks!!
Krys
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"Silhouette" ~~An outline that appears dark against a light background.
Tonight I took a picture of my daughter~~ It happens to be a silhouette. So I thought I would look up the definition of that word and write about it.
A silhouette is an outline that appears dark against a light background. Do you feel like a silhouette? I do. I am a outline that appears dark against the background of God. When I am in his presence the darkness that surrounds me... no, the darkness that is me~ appears. When I am aware of who he is, of how powerful his love is, how magnificent his love is, the darkness within my soul is evident.
Oh that I could love like he does.
Oh that I could give like he does.
Oh that I could forgive like he does.
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This excerpt is a passage out of the sermon that Kyle Lake, Pastor of UBC Waco, was to preach the morning he died of electrocution during a baptism. My prayer is that each of us would read these words, meditate upon them, soak them into our very being and live them!
Closing words from an excerpt from October 30, 2005 Sermon ~ Never preached by Kyle Lake
"Live. And Live Well.
BREATHE. Breathe in and Breathe deeply. Be PRESENT. Do not be past. Do not be future. Be now.
On a crystal clear, breezy 70 degree day, roll down the windows and FEEL the wind against your skin. Feel the warmth of the sun.
If you run, then allow those first few breaths on a cool Autumn day to FREEZE your lungs and do not just be alarmed, be ALIVE.
Get knee-deep in a novel and LOSE track of time.
If you bike, pedal HARD… and if you crash then crash well.
Feel the SATISFACTION of a job well done—a paper well-written, a project thoroughly completed, a play well-performed.
If you must wipe the snot from your 3-year old’s nose, don’t be disgusted if the Kleenex didn’t catch it all… because soon he’ll be wiping his own.
If you’ve recently experienced loss, then GRIEVE. And Grieve well.
At the table with friends and family, LAUGH. If you’re eating and laughing at the same time, then might as well laugh until you puke. And if you eat, then SMELL. The aromas are not impediments to your day. Steak on the grill, coffee beans freshly ground, cookies in the oven. And TASTE. Taste every ounce of flavor. Taste every ounce of friendship. Taste every ounce of Life. Because-it-is-most-definitely-a-Gift."
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My new favorite picture of Eric ~ Our daughter Michaela took this pic for our new Website Silver City Mosaic
Flashback:
A look back to my first week of blogging: This was posted in early July:
Several months ago, my husband Eric began a series on the Justice of God. It was life transforming for me. It revived my passion when I began to relearn what the Church is called to do. As I have said, I sort of forgot. I thought we were here to convert the masses, correct their theology and have great bible studies... But then I realized something revolutionary---that the body of Christ is really here to do justly, love mercy and to walk humbly with God. WØW!!! life transforming. I thought to myself, "You mean that I'm supposed to hold the hands of dying children in Africa who have no human touch? I'm supposed to be involved in movements that release young children and women from forced prostitution. I'm supposed to be a part of "redemption"?? Not just big picture, heaven and hell redemption-- but every day life- place some food, any bit of food on a table for a struggling single mom- kind of redemption. And that was when my own redemption of my faith took place.
A faith where:
Redemption Reigns.
Hope Heals.
Love Lasts.
Revolutionary Raw Religion.
It doesn't get any better than this.
This week Eric and my little family had our first "Mosaic" service here in our home. A new movement for Grant County was birthed in our living room. Eric taught about the work of the priests in the old testament- The dirty, nasty, raw, bloody, work of a priest. You know the cut the head off of a dove, pour out the blood on another dove and let it go kind of work. Or the spill the guts of the bull on the alter, place blood on your earlobe, keep the fires burning night and day, atonement kind of work. Eric keeps asking what all the deep theological (actually even practical would help) meanings are. I can't answer that except I told him. That is a picture of what the work of the church are today. Our work will be dirty, messy, nasty, hard, long, and yet we are called to be ministers of Christ's redeeming atonement for others- for each other-for ourselves. That is revolutionary raw religion.
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Now, here we are 4 months later, and I am getting anxious for movement. We have continued to meet, and now we have 4 others joining us in our meetings, but I am haunted by words from Octavio who stated when he started his ministry it was difficult to get started because of people who were used to meetings rather than movement... I think I have become one of them kind of people. That terrifies me. I want to be about movement, about mission, about ministry. I don't want to be about meetings. Have any of you out there planted a new church? If so, how did you move from meetings to movement? I'd love to hear your story.
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| Please be in prayer for the family and congregation of Kyle Lake, Pastor of Waco University Baptist Church who died this morning in an accident while performing a baptism. Kyle Lake was a speaker we recently got to see at the recent Catalyst Conference , and the Pastor of the church of the well known worship band, David Crowder Band. We have friends who attended this church for many years and who taught his children in Sunday School. Please pray for them as they travel back to the services. Kyle was a young, dynamic, catalytic leader and innovator for the body of Christ speaking to our generation. This will be a great loss to all...
My blog from 2 days ago stands as my thought of seasons of change. It sadly seems that it is a season of death...
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