Habhak

is the new blog by my friend, teacher, spiritual mentor Diana P.  In the space of 3 days she has gotten on Facebook and now a blog. I’m sure a podcast will be following soon (if she and Brett can figure that out   )

She will be teaching a class that she hasn’t taught in a number of years – well, since Cross Point started, called And God Made Woman.  It is a marathon… long, rough, tough, but soooooooooooooo worth it.  A woman’s relationship with God… with her mother… with her father… at the end of it – food and burning things.  What could be better?

When my mom passed away, the first people at visitation were the women in my small group from AGMW.  They had even organized a painting day at my house to help…  Since then, I’m still single (I hoped that the next time I took this class, I would be viewing it from the ‘wife’ stage of life) but I lost both my parents, my grandparents, got a major lesson in financial accountability, have 2 kitties now, bought a condo, took up dance, tore up the blogosphere, largely left the blogosphere, lost a bunch of weight, gained it all back, and am finally starting to understand what it means to love God and be loved by Him.

I’m glad you are on the journey with me, dear reader.  So, when you get a chance, go check out Diana’s blog.  She is very funny and very honest.

Well, two.

Jen got Buckley and started sharing kitten pictures from her volunteer work and all.  And then I started looking on PetFinder and found a brother/sister pair of kittens (12 weeks old now, which puts their b-day around Smith and Wesson’s) who are cute as buttons.

But does 4 cats make me a crazy, single woman, cat lady?  I don’t know.  I’m really conflicted about it all.

I just purchased the Reformation Study Bible in the English Standard Version. It is a word for word translation, which is different from my much beloved NIV study Bible which is thought-for-thought.

Last night, I sat on my back deck reading Genesis 1 and got about 4 verses in and nearly exclaimed outloud “HAVE I EVER READ THIS BEFORE?!” It was new. It was as though I had never read any of the Bible before. No notes from previous studies. New footnotes and explanations at the bottom.

I kept reading “In the Beginning, God…” over and over. Pastor Mark at Mars Hill hammered on that in his sermons on Creation recently. The Holy Spirit was there. Looking at John 1, we know Jesus (the Word) was there, too. And difference in creation methods.. He spoke and things came to be. He used His hands to make humans. His word is so powerful to make solar systems yet He tenderly formed Adam in the palm of his hand. The metaphor of the Potter’s Hands is even more profound when I think about it like that.