Ryan has been visiting us all week. We have have been building a loft bed for his new bedroom at home. It has been a lot of fun and work. Ryan has done a lot of work and I have learned a lot. We completed the construction today and got started on painting. We will take him home Saturday and help him set it up. Tomorrow after we finishing painting we will find some time for fishing.
Yesterday I was invited to join a guys’ night out. The Crockett, Walt and Long men/boys went to Lake Herrington to fish, swim, tube, eat hot dogs and smores and celebrate David Walt’s eighth birthday. The evening was topped off with an Indiana Jones movie which did not keep me from going to sleep. We returned home today about 1 pm. I really enjoyed being along. The kids were great and had a wonderful time. We had good conversations and I appreciated getting to know Fred Long and J.D. Walt.
There is ultimately no justification for a private piety that doesn’t work out in actual mission, just as there is no justification for people who use their activism in the social, cultural, or political sphere as a screen to prevent them from facing the challenges within their own lives – the challenge, that is of God’s kingdom, of Jesus’s lordship, and of the Spirit’s empowering. If the gospel is not transforming you, how do you know it will transform anything else?
N.T. Wright – Surprised by Hope