First, The Paynes want to wish everyone a Wonderful Good Friday. Take the time today to truly remember what this day is. BP doesn't do that enough. We (including BP) take for granted what the Cross truly means. It is so easy for our hearts to become numb and for the Cross to simply become a word to us. How often do we truly let the word Cross pentetrate to the depths of our heart to unleash a love and spirit that is life changing. It is like how we can say "I Love You" to our spouse, mother/father, brother, friend, etc so many times that it is unintentionally becomes a "habit" word. It is not that we don't love them, because we do, but our day or days may have become so busy that we have become nume to how we can truly show them that we love them. We have walked onto the path of taking our love and their love for granted. And in the same way the word Cross can so easily become the same thing. Sure we speak of it but do we cling to the word everyday? Do we let it break us everyday? Or do we simply say "God thank you for the Cross" and carry own without truly taking a moment from the day to let the love our God had for us that He laid down his life on that Cross to rebuild a doorway for us that we initially tore down. The key word in that is HE. Christ wasn't forced, wasn't tricked, wasn't bribed to lay down on that cross. He willingly laid down. For BP, a reawakening to this fact needs to be present everyday. So many times BP says "Thank you for the Cross" and doesn't look further into it. It is like a kid unwrapping a present for Christmas but not taking it out of the box. Sure, simply unwrapping makes the kid excited and he can see what it is from the advertisement on the box but the real excitment is the toy inside. So not to compare the Cross to a toy but open the Cross up each day and get excited. Let the real present of Christ defeating sin and death bring you a love that is loud.
Anyway, you can tell what is on BP's heart today. Rick and Bubba played "Worth is the Lamb" this morning and what a moment that was....chills.
So onto some updates the quick and dirty way:
1) BP is building a book case for Ro-Dawg or as Rowan likes to call himself now (as you saw from his blog) Ro-licious. BP feels like Tank Dawg now. Pics will be coming.
2) Ro-Dawg is tearing some formula up now. $60 per week and half. Yeah, tell BP about it.
3) Erin is healing up very nicely now. She has been going to a wound specialist in Albertville. BP has actually been changing her gauzes now.
4) Going to get Erin a china cabinet we found off Craigslist tomorrow morning. BP is addicted to Craigslist.
5) Yard work and easter egg hunt on tap for tomorrow.
6) Cooper has been on vacation on the farm this week. He called last night and said he ready to come home though. Be there in the morning buddy!!!!
7) Looks like Belinda is going to be called Grana B or B for short!!!
8) Rowan, sorry Ro-licious, is blogging now. BP restricting him on how much he blogs though but his Review of Role Models will be coming soon
9) Ro-Train is addicted to watching TV. Is this bad?
10) Go check out what is happening on Dr. Awesome. http://gotmanswers.blogspot.com/
Some pretty funny stuff going on
More comedic relief later!!!
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