The lime green ski suit…

 The lime green ski suit….

As winter has hit big time in many areas, there are more and more comics about snow, snowmen, etc…I get “Tundra” created by a former Alaskan.   He always includes a fun spin or pun in his creations…or “BC” with their antics in the snow as “cave dwellers”.

My husband enjoyed these as well…he could have posed for one or the other in his lime green ski suit…

As a family we enjoyed cross country skiing for a time…my husband and youngest son went on to downhill and snowboarding…in the Cascades and later in Nevada …liking the adrenaline rush over the quiet, calm cross country…

My husband wasn’t into buying matching or trendy  skiing clothes, he used what he had on hand, a lime green suit, button-up Pendleton wool coat, and a huge warm brown fur hat with animal tails dangling around or a big black fur Cossack-style hat, both purchased in Mongolia….he was a “statement” himself…I think my son found friends quickly at the slopes  to distance himself from this “fashion statement “….but, he had fun…

I bring up these fun memories, because we all have pictures in our minds of past experiences, we all have stories to tell, things which tickle our funny bone and bring a tear, things that make us smile or maybe bring us to our knees…family history both good and bad,  light and heavy, events that we may need to move on from and press forward, forgiving….or those that help us grow…none are wasted…they may have built character, faith, relationships…life…

In the Word, we read of families, people and event all the way through…How God worked, how the people responded…examples of good and bad, encouraging words, building Words, admonishments, Transforming Words and situations…His Love, His judgment…His invitation…

Thank YOU….

But as for you, continue in what you have learned and have firmly believed, knowing from whom you learned it and how from childhood you have been acquainted with the sacred writings, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work.

2 Timothy 3:14-17

But you, O Lord, are enthroned forever; you are remembered throughout all generations.

Psalm 102:12

He has caused his wondrous works to be remembered; the Lord is gracious and merciful.

Psalm 111:4

I remember the days of old; I meditate on all that you have done; I ponder the work of your hands.

Psalm 143:5 

And they remembered his words,

Luke 24:8