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Teachable Moments

Safe Submission

by Sunny on January 20, 2010 · 6 comments

Submission. Often said with scorn, dread, or fear. If you are submissive you are likened to a cowering dog. Weak, fearful, useless.

Yet that isn’t God’s view of submission.

horse-jump-d-lund-2003As a rider, when I select the ideal horse to spend a day on, it is a submissive horse. One that is full of power and agility. Confident and quick. Intelligent and brave. Submissive and obedient. None of the strengths of a horse are worth anything to the rider without submissiveness and obedience. When they are there the rider can take a mediocre horse and do great things.

The other options are a boring horse, a dangerous horse, or a spooky horse. The boring horse has given [click to continue…]

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Cleaning out the fuzz!

by SunnyDecember 16, 2009

I was sitting here trying decide what to write for today’s post… and drawing a blank. So I started typing something cute that happened with one of my kids. But my h kept sticking. Well, not exactly sticking. It wasn’t depressing all the way. Grrr. My n has been doing that for a while but [...]

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Yum!

by SunnySeptember 11, 2009

The kids have a new hobby. Collecting bugs for the turtles. Yum. I haven’t had the pleasure of observing. I’ll pass. I have however, noticed the resulting change in the behavior of the turtles. Whenever anyone walks near their cage they dive in the water and swim frantically near the top… watching for a hand [...]

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Fearless!

by SunnySeptember 8, 2009

We went to Gimli yesterday! Finally we had weather nice enough to enjoy the beach. It was windy and the water was whitecaps and waves… very pretty. Kinda scary for the kids though. I carried Merry out into it and she screamed and laughed and begged me to take her back. Zach tried walking out [...]

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Thunder, Lightning, and a still small voice

by SunnyAugust 13, 2009

Last night was a spectacular show of God’s power! Wow! Thunder cracked so loud it sounded like the boom of fireworks going off in the house. Lightning flashed so bright it made my eyes hurt. I don’t know if there were several storms all packed tight together or if the one was spinning over us, [...]

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