Well,
It's been a while. Ups, downs, the usual.
We have been inundated with snow such that the snow banks from shoveling my roof are taller than the eves. The last snow i had to shovel down the snow banks so i could shovel the roof. Jinkies! The good news is that it has been in the forties so far this week. The iffy news is that there has been almost no direct sun. So the snow is melting, but veeeeeery slowly.
All this snow has inspired me to spend more time on the excercise bike. i like the fact that i can ride and read - kills two birds with one stone.
This time has been like a new spring for our family spiritually, and i think also for our fellowship. i am eager to see how things grow. On this note i wanted to share some thoughts that i read (while getting all buff on the bike) from Eberhard Arnold:
"If you love your neighbor as yourself, you will wish for hum the same as you have, the same luxury and comfort that is given to you."
"The point is not whether we give up or property, but that we do no less in any area of life than what is demanded here: that we surrender our money and our life so completely to God that we will be ready - today or tomorrow - to sell our fields and our goods, to give up our business, our investments, and our bank account, and give everything to the Lord and to the poor."
Jesus' love would rather be struck twice than return a single blow."
Love that is complete presses on to voluntary poverty, because it cannot keep for itself anything that a neighbor lacks. Love is defenseless because it has given up self-preservation and revenge."
"Nonviolence reveals the love that overcomes all."
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