6:30 AM

Up at 6 on a Saturday morning. Not attending leaders' meeting. Don't have to teach. So what am I doing?......

Waiting for my nephew to wake up. I get to watch the sweet little (large) thing this morning while his parents and grandparents attend leaders' meeting!

Also, today is Brad's birthday. A low key day is planned including a vet visit and house cleaning... it'll all be good.

I'll update more later after more has happened. So far it's been waking up to the smell of cat poop, coming over to the little boy's place for instructions from mommy, and now waiting with some coffee (bless that mommy).

Update:

Brad's birthday was a good day! We visited the vet to have some blood work done for mukmuk, came home and had a nap, did some chores, had dinner at the keg, and had a surprise dessert with some friends to celebrate three-zero. It also snowed a bunch and that was awesome.

It's now Sunday and I woke up with terrible cramps. I stayed home as I have another busy day that I needed to rest up for! Then I found out that it wouldn't be as busy because it got cancelled due to the snow. So I spent the morning listening to the 4th sermon in the series The Peasant Princess by Mark Driscoll.

Also read up a whole bunch on interesting theological topics. Here's something I came across this morning...

This is a response to recent controversy.

Sin will always appears as a trifle to those whose view of God is small. If you were to discover a little boy pulling the legs off of a grasshopper, you would think it strange and perhaps a little bizarre. If the same little boy were pulling the legs off of a frog, that would be a bit more disturbing. If it were a bird, you would probably scold him and inform his parents. If it were a puppy, that would be too shocking to tolerate. You would intervene. If it were a little baby, it would be so reprehensible and tragic that you would risk you own life to protect the baby. What’s the difference in each of these scenarios? The sin is the same (pulling the limbs off). The only difference is the one sinned against (from a grasshopper to a baby). The more noble and valuable the creature, the more heinous and reprehensible the sin. And so it is with God.

If God were a grasshopper, then to sin against Him wouldn’t be such a big deal and eternal punishment wouldn’t be necessary. But God isn’t a grasshopper, He’s the most precious, valuable, beautiful being in the universe. His glory and worth are infinite and eternal. Thus to sin against an infinitely glorious being is an infinitely heinous offense that is worthy of an infinitely heinous punishment.

We don’t take sin seriously because we don’t take God seriously. We have so imbibed of the banality of our God-belittling spirit of the age that our sins hardly trouble us at all. Our sin seems small because we regard God as small. And thus the penalty of hell—eternal conscious suffering under the wrath of God—always seems like an overreaction on God’s part. If we knew God better, we wouldn’t think like that.

[emphasis mine]