Romans 1-4 / Challenge

boy oh boy oh boy......a great weekend....lonnnng weekend culminating in a chaotic mess last nite...Not w/us but being in it w/them, while chaotic...you just start thinking about the Story You write and seeing 'things' that way brings a healthier perspective and hopefully..prayerfully we will be able to be in the chaos with them or at least until....just guide us Abba and don't allow us to get in Your way......that may sound stupid or crazy but it's what is going through my mind this am.....

Romans 4: 16 This is why the fulfillment of God's promise depends entirely on trusting God and his way, and then simply embracing him and what he does. God's promise arrives as pure gift. That's the only way everyone can be sure to get in on it, those who keep the religious traditions and those who have never heard of them. For Abraham is father of us all. He is not our racial father—that's reading the story backward. He is our faith father.
17-18 We call Abraham "father" not because he got God's attention by living like a saint, but because God made something out of Abraham when he was a nobody. Isn't that what we've always read in Scripture, God saying to Abraham, "I set you up as father of many peoples"? Abraham was first named "father" and then became a father because he dared to trust God to do what only God could do: raise the dead to life, with a word make something out of nothing. When everything was hopeless, Abraham believed anyway, deciding to live not on the basis of what he saw he couldn't do but on what God said he would do. And so he was made father of a multitude of peoples. God himself said to him, "You're going to have a big family, Abraham!"
19-25 Abraham didn't focus on his own impotence and say, "It's hopeless. This hundred-year-old body could never father a child." Nor did he survey Sarah's decades of infertility and give up. He didn't tiptoe around God's promise asking cautiously skeptical questions. He plunged into the promise and came up strong, ready for God, sure that God would make good on what he had said. That's why it is said, "Abraham was declared fit before God by trusting God to set him right."

I sent this email to my kids first thing this morning...and sharing it with you here....I don't really think too many people read but if you do...I appreciate you...


Just wanted to say Good Morning and encourage you in your communications w/each other….may sound random but then again maybe not…..spent an evening w/________ last nite….a marriage rife w/miscommunications and unsettled differences…..two people who don’t know each other….and now they want to or least they want to want to….I pray….

So driving to work wanted you each to know how wonderfully wonderful and complex He made you …..and your spouse…..

That’s it……well that and in being fearfully and wonderfully made….learn to…strive to….seek more to understand than to be understood…..He understands YOU perfectly and loves you right where you are…..

That’s it…love you all mor’n my luggage….MOM