The Streetpoet

Wherein Ian discovers that he can push the door open and get into MUD!!! And afterwards enjoy a warm bath and a teething biscuit.

We have been inside for a week, it seems. Like Seth says “It’s pretty sure windy!” we couldn’t go out in it comfortably, and then the rains came for days, which I love, but now there is mud. The boys love mud…I don’t. And it’s cold. But the orchard is finally passable and that’s what really counts around here!

This blessed me today:
http://www.stage6.com/user/guitarpunk/video/1836382/Louie-Giglio—How-Great-Is-Our-God

“Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering.”
— Saint Augustine

It is always good to look back and see how far we’ve come and what God has brought us through. But it’s oh, so fun with children to see how they’ve grown! I found these shots of the boys from January 2007:

‘Tonight I close my eyes and see
A strange procession passing me –
The years before I saw your face
Go by me with a wistful grace;
They pass, the sensitive, shy years,
As one who strives to dance, half blind with tears.

The years went by and never knew
That each one brought me nearer you;
Their path was narrow and apart
And yet it led me to your heart –
Oh, sensitive, shy years, oh, lonely years,
That strove to sing with voices drowned in tears.’