Easter and family
Mar. 24th, 2008 09:48 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
imbecamielFirst off - happy slightly-belated Easter! Hope you all had a wonderful one.
My own was really, really good. I've been reading a lot of C.S. Lewis lately (mostly his essays on stories), and between that and yesterday's service, I was just... I don't know, it's hard to put into words. Struck again by how real this is, I suppose. It's like... all the most wonderful and epic stories and legends you read, and desperately wish were true, that there were heroes and adventures just like that, how wonderful it is to see the good guys triumph, and the bad ones utterly defeated - and this, this story that we base our lives on, it is. Worse villains, more wonderful Heroes than anyone can fully imagine, greater victories, and more real than anything else around us. And it not only exists, we're part of it. Maybe not a big part, most of us, or what seems like an important part, but we are important to the Hero and Author of the story - and He loves us and knows us as individuals, and wants us to know and love Him. It's... mind-boggling.
I don't know, maybe it sounds disrespectful, like I'm trivializing the gospel. It's just hard to find the right words for impressions like this sometimes. What I felt was more like awe. I can't be the only one who's read Narnia and just ached to go there. And then to realize that it is real, Aslan does exist here, now, greater than any author can capture Him - and yet here it can be so hard at times to really see and feel that reality. Sometimes I get so impatient and homesick for heaven. As weak as my faith is, as completely messed up as my priorities so often are - how could I survive without this foundation?
And that's all for now - must get back to work.
My own was really, really good. I've been reading a lot of C.S. Lewis lately (mostly his essays on stories), and between that and yesterday's service, I was just... I don't know, it's hard to put into words. Struck again by how real this is, I suppose. It's like... all the most wonderful and epic stories and legends you read, and desperately wish were true, that there were heroes and adventures just like that, how wonderful it is to see the good guys triumph, and the bad ones utterly defeated - and this, this story that we base our lives on, it is. Worse villains, more wonderful Heroes than anyone can fully imagine, greater victories, and more real than anything else around us. And it not only exists, we're part of it. Maybe not a big part, most of us, or what seems like an important part, but we are important to the Hero and Author of the story - and He loves us and knows us as individuals, and wants us to know and love Him. It's... mind-boggling.
I don't know, maybe it sounds disrespectful, like I'm trivializing the gospel. It's just hard to find the right words for impressions like this sometimes. What I felt was more like awe. I can't be the only one who's read Narnia and just ached to go there. And then to realize that it is real, Aslan does exist here, now, greater than any author can capture Him - and yet here it can be so hard at times to really see and feel that reality. Sometimes I get so impatient and homesick for heaven. As weak as my faith is, as completely messed up as my priorities so often are - how could I survive without this foundation?
And my sister, Sue, and her family came over and spent the afternoon with us. My niece seems to be doing well. It was really good talking with her, and she's actually been much more open and talkative than usual lately. She's doing well in college, actually got an A in her accounting class (one of the only three people in the class to get one, it sounds like most did pretty badly), which was both a wonderful surprise and a relief, considering how much she struggled in high school.
Also found out that her due date is July 22nd. Talked baby names, and she's planning to follow family tradition and give her the middle name Ann (my mom's middle name, Sue's middle name, Ashley's middle name, my middle name... *g*), and for a first name she's thinking of Lexie - she liked Alexa or Alexis, but her boyfriend wanted Lexie, so that's at least the tentative decision. And yes - rather surprisingly, he is still committed. No talk of marriage yet, but he's neither abandoned her nor withdrawn, and is involved in planning and preparing for the baby, so any positive's a blessing. But wow, it's coming up so fast... I'm really looking forward to holding my little great-niece! :)
Also found out that her due date is July 22nd. Talked baby names, and she's planning to follow family tradition and give her the middle name Ann (my mom's middle name, Sue's middle name, Ashley's middle name, my middle name... *g*), and for a first name she's thinking of Lexie - she liked Alexa or Alexis, but her boyfriend wanted Lexie, so that's at least the tentative decision. And yes - rather surprisingly, he is still committed. No talk of marriage yet, but he's neither abandoned her nor withdrawn, and is involved in planning and preparing for the baby, so any positive's a blessing. But wow, it's coming up so fast... I'm really looking forward to holding my little great-niece! :)
And that's all for now - must get back to work.
