Her 1st Look

     This week I was listening to a song by Kari Jobe and the lyrics "Lord heal our land" stood out to me because this is probably something that a lot of people are praying for.  I kept listening and the lyrics to follow were "That every eye will see, that every heart will know, the one who took our sins.  The one who died and rose."  This is a very fitting song for Easter but this prayer "Heal our land" can go two ways.  It makes me think of the story of Jesus healing the paralytic.  When some men brought a paralytic to Jesus his initial response was to say "Take courage, son: your sins are forgiven" - Matt. 9:2.  The scribes considered it blasphemy but Jesus response to them was ""Why do you harbor evil in your hearts?  Which is easier: to say, 'Your sins are forgiven,' or to say, 'Get up and walk?'  But so that you may know what the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins..." Then He said to the paraly...

    We have a running joke in our house about hand soap.  Somehow we always have way to large of a stock of hand soap and for a long time anytime Joel (my husband) would make a trip to the store for me he would come home with a thing or two of hand soap because just thought we might need more.  Once he finally realized we were set for a year he still would bring home hand soap just to be funny.  I do have to admit, I have a really hard time passing up a good deal on bath and body works soaps, even if we do have a bucket load of soft soap at home.  With all of the extra hand washing to avoid this virus and with being at home a lot we are going through soap more than ever.  We are down to our last 3 bottles of hand soap.      Last week our 1 year old son, Corban, started moving his hands in a motion that looked like he was washing his hands. So I asked if he was washing his hands and now he just does it all the time..  Joel w...