Hahaha My Lovely Wife and My Blog

My lovely wife, Cheryl, critiques my blog for me. She tells me if she thinks a picture will bother someone or if she thinks I've insulted someone or if I sounded like a total nerd, and so I go back and change things or I tell her the picture looks OK to me or whatever.


So tonight she said, "Are you depressed? What's wrong?"


"Huh?"


"I read your blog. It was very dark."


"Huh?"


"You quoted Romans 8!"






"Hahahaha!" She's so funny. So I guess it was a bit of a stretch to compare a dogwood winter with the bad things that happen in life that you have no control over. I really didn't mean to overstate the cold weather with doom and gloom and weeping and gnashing of teeth. (Although if I lose all of my iris again this year I may be a little depressed.) I was simply pointing out that there are things that happen in life that we have no control over and how in all those things - granted we usually think of huge things like war and famine and yellow fever and a plague of locusts - but even the little things that annoy us can't separate us from God or His love.




The iris on Bear Hollow last year.

Hahahaha. I'll try not to be quite so over the top in the future. Not that I've ever really - you know - been "over the top". I probably have only exaggerated once or twice in my whole life, hmmmm, well, once or twice last week, hmmmmmmm, welllllll, OK, once or twice today...

Dogwood Winter

I'm all against dogwood winters, but that doesn't seem to stop them from happening. It actually snowed on Cheryl this morning when she drove through Joelton. I guess I'll need to cover up some plants tonight and tomorrow night.

Like this beautiful bleeding heart.


I suppose there are many things in life that I'd just as soon not happen, but they happen anyway. That doesn't mean life is bad. It doesn't mean anything really. I just hope my bleeding heart survives this cold snap.

On a totally different note...
For the first time since I have been to Hilldale, the second service choir was bigger than the first service choir. Way to go 10:30 choir! The choir sounded great both services. Thanks to everyone who sang with us this morning. I'll be looking for you all Wednesday night. Bring someone with you.