I am sitting here after lunch thinking about the upcoming sermon series in Joshua. For some reason, that particular book in the Bible quickens my spririt. The Israelites drive me crazy because God has provide miracles and showed up among them and delivered them from so many circumstances and yet they doubt Him and they go their own way and then something goes wrong and they cry out to Him again and He is faithful. And when I read it I say "What is wrong with those people?!?" but how different am I from them? How many times has God provided miracles, showed up, kept His promises and yet I get scared and I doubt and the enemies I face seem too big. I am ready for a good dose of Joshua, Caleb, and those Israelites over the next 6 weeks. I also suggested to Roger this morning that he might find some good clips for his series out of Veggie Tales Josh and the Big Wall. If you haven't seen it I highly recommend it as a resource for the coming series. I am not kidding. There is some good theology in Veggie Tales. Plus those little French peas crack me up.
Anyway, on to the blog question of the week. We have a small plastic box of little cards on our counter called the Chat Pack. It is a bazillion random questions that we sometimes use to spark conversation at our house at dinner time. I long to do these questions with more adult thinkers because half of my kids don't have the ability to think in the abstract and the other two compete to be silly. I enjoy all that and that is valuable but some of these questions are really interesting and I would like to know what an adult brain besides my husband's thinks about them. So I am going to draw off of my Chat Pack this week and maybe over the next few weeks.
I am thinking about spring coming and with spring of course, comes rain. I always appreciate the smell after a good rain however I don't love the smell. It is basically wet dirt. So the question I am posing is, If you could pick the way rain smells what would it be?
Have fun with that one. Don't stress about it too much. I pick vanilla. It sweet. Its comforting and I love it . If I could have that smell everywhere I go I think I would like it. But maybe I don't want to associate it too much with something I don't like such as rain. Maybe it should be a smell I don't particularly like. Hmmmm. Maybe this will be a challenge. :) I am anxious to hear your thoughts.
Blessings to all of you,

joy