I just updated what I’m reading and what I’ve read. I’m tempted to get rid of those lists, though. This is the third year I’ve kept track of what I’ve read (sort of… I started mid2002), but now that others are doing it, I’m just embarassed at how short my lists are.

Try for a moment to imagine the status of Israel in the ancient world. In a world where famine was commonplace, God commands His people to have regular feasts every year. All around them people are starving because God has given them judgmental famines, and yet He tells Israel to have several feasts, each of which lasts at least a week. Today, we would not consider this a very “fair” arrangement. Feeling guilty because of our own prosperity and great use of resources, we would suggest sending all that extra food to the surrounding, less fortunate, pagan nations. But we fail to understand God’s purposes in Israel. He wanted to show the world that if a people serves idols, they will starve. If the people repent and come back to the living God, there will be abundance. God testified to this every year before the whole world, so that the world’s jealousy would be provoked. They too would want a god like Him � a god who fed them and did not feed “on” them. (Steve Wilkins, Face To Face)

A few fun things that happened this weekend…

Last night, when big G was going to bed, I asked her if she wanted ice in her water sippy. She answered, “Maybe I’ll have some ice”. So I asked her ‘Maybe you want ice, or yes, you’re sure you want ice”? And her answer? It’s the pure cuteness of Geneva… she said, “Maybe I’m sure”.

Also, Sunday afternoon while the girls were napping, Megan and I played a game of Yahtzee. Megan kept trying to get a long sequence, which is five numbers… all the dice. She tried and she tried and every time she’d fail. Usually by only one number, too. So evenutally she had only two open spaces on her scorecard, long sequence and yahtzee, and her roll produced neither. So, since she couldn’t get the sequence after so many attempts, she filled in a zero for it. I said, “Wouldn’t it be funny if you next roll you got a large straight on the first try?” We laughed.

Her next roll came… large straight, right off the bat. We laughed more. She picked up all the dice for her second roll. Large straight, again! Then her third roll was one or two off from the large straight, and we were disppointed that it wasn’t another one. That would have been too good, though. Nothing can be as funny as that.

Man…. if you want people to read your blog, what you need to do is get Barb to post a link. 15 of the last 20 referrals to my blog are from her.