Monday, April 19, 2010
Boating in April
So this weekend Travis and I had big plans to meet my family in Waco and drive to Belton for a wonderful day of water skiing and tubing on the lake. It didn't really work out... at all. We got to Waco a little late and drove through rain to get there. Travis's puppy Cash came with us and I was so impressed at how well behaved he was! He is so precious and a fun road trip traveler. David's girlfriend Hannah came over and we all piled in the car and drove to Belton. Dad hooked up the trailer and pulled the boat out of the enclosed stall. Immediately a rotten smell permeated the air. We all knew there was something dead in the boat. Gross. Dad rips the cover off, Travis jumps in to investigate and announces that he has discovered a dead coyote in the ski compartment in the floor of the boat! We mapped out what must have happened because we've all seen CSI. The coyote must have gotten hit by a car and crawled in our boat looking for a place to die dragging blood with him across the floor. Travis grabbed a garbage sack and Dad got one of the paddles and together they were able to get it out. We vaccumed and bought gloves and bleached and scrubbed down the whole thing. Now the boat has been thoughly disinfected and is ready for an outing next time. We launched the boat for about 15 minutes but it was raining hard so we came back in. I can't wait to try it again next time on a sunny day. I love tubing!
Tuesday, April 6, 2010
Health Missions Engagement Team
I am going to be one of the leaders for the health missions engagement team at church. I'm really excited about it! This is a new team and mostly what we're doing this year will be forming a team and mission statement. Then planning and creating strategy for how we will roll that out. There are going to be people from all kinds of health backgrounds on this team like nurses, audiologists, fitness trainers, physical therapists. There are so many directions we could go in impacting ourselves, our church and our community for Christ through health!
So I've started praying and thinking about what connections Jesus and health care have. When we get sick it's not the worst thing that could happen because we have hope in Christ and death is not the end of the story for believers. Sickness also doesn't mean that we've done something wrong and we're being punished specifically for that. Sin entered the world in Genesis and God allowing sickness and evil to happen is not an overreaction to that sin. God is that holy that all the amount of devastation that can happen in this world cannot compare to His glory. I don't think we'll be able to understand that until we are with Him in heaven. Whether we are sick or well God is still good, and Jesus is still more than enough! We can pray for each other for health and healing and God will hear our prayers and maybe answer them the way we want Him to and maybe He has a different plan.
We also need to be good stewards of our bodies so we can glorify God with our strength. Good ways to do this include regular excercise, eating healthy
food and getting checkups with a doctor (and following the doctor's advice). That's definitely all easier said than done. This team could have a lot of fun with these ideas like playing games outside! Community is easily built around playing together and having a reason to gather together! Of course Meredith and I would tell anyone who wanted our opinion on how to eat to start doing Weight Watchers. Maybe Mere would start a group at church ;). Talk about accountability with eating healthy food and excercise, there it is. How much fun would that be!
Then there are always health fairs where we'd line everybody up and check all their numbers and tell them if they're fine or it's time to go see the doctor and get your diabetes or blood pressure under control. That would be a good way to get our church and community altogether at once, and a lot of work...
Anyway, those are just a few ideas. I'd like to look up verses that support these ideas and whatever else scripture has to say about health too. Feel free to post scriptures friends :)
So I've started praying and thinking about what connections Jesus and health care have. When we get sick it's not the worst thing that could happen because we have hope in Christ and death is not the end of the story for believers. Sickness also doesn't mean that we've done something wrong and we're being punished specifically for that. Sin entered the world in Genesis and God allowing sickness and evil to happen is not an overreaction to that sin. God is that holy that all the amount of devastation that can happen in this world cannot compare to His glory. I don't think we'll be able to understand that until we are with Him in heaven. Whether we are sick or well God is still good, and Jesus is still more than enough! We can pray for each other for health and healing and God will hear our prayers and maybe answer them the way we want Him to and maybe He has a different plan.
We also need to be good stewards of our bodies so we can glorify God with our strength. Good ways to do this include regular excercise, eating healthy
food and getting checkups with a doctor (and following the doctor's advice). That's definitely all easier said than done. This team could have a lot of fun with these ideas like playing games outside! Community is easily built around playing together and having a reason to gather together! Of course Meredith and I would tell anyone who wanted our opinion on how to eat to start doing Weight Watchers. Maybe Mere would start a group at church ;). Talk about accountability with eating healthy food and excercise, there it is. How much fun would that be!
Then there are always health fairs where we'd line everybody up and check all their numbers and tell them if they're fine or it's time to go see the doctor and get your diabetes or blood pressure under control. That would be a good way to get our church and community altogether at once, and a lot of work...
Anyway, those are just a few ideas. I'd like to look up verses that support these ideas and whatever else scripture has to say about health too. Feel free to post scriptures friends :)
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