My Morning Thus Far....

So, I started this routine only yesterday. I get up at 5:30 AM with Nathan and get his lunch ready and get him out the door, and then I do my Bible Study and start cleaning some things that would be difficult to get done if Jonas were awake. Well, this morning, instead of sleeping until 9:30, Jonas decided to get up with us! So, thankfully most of the house is already clean, all I have to do is straighten things up and my big project to work on today is getting our room cleaned and organized! We'll see how far I get! :)

This is a photo of Jonas playing with the laundry basket this morning, he crawled in there and then couldn't get back out! It was funny!

UPDATE!

Okay so its been forever since I posted so I will just give a quick update. Jonas was born at 34 wks 5 days on November 3 2008. I was in the hospital before that for almost two weeks trying to stop the preterm labor. Went home and a few days of being home on bedrest my water broke. Jonas was born healthy with no real problems. He was only on the feeding tube for about 24 hours before he started eating on his own. He had to stay in the hospital for about 10 days so Nathan and I and our mothers were going back and forth to the hospital several times a day to see him and feed him. He finally got to come home and has been doing great ever since! Here are some pics! He will be 3 mos old on Februrary 3.

Baby Jonas!!!

Well I went and got an ultrasound done today!! It was great! Everything is looking fine...I have to go back at 34 weeks to check to see if he is breech or not. I got one 4D pic and the rest were regular ultrasound pics...I wasn't supposed to even see him 4D but she did it for me which I thought was so nice! But he is so beautiful!! He looks like his daddy!!!! And he's got some BIG lips!!! LOL! Not sure where he got those from! haha! He's a cutie tho!! I"m just so thankful that he's doing good in there and everything looks good so far!

Peter's Denial of Jesus - Luke 22:54-62

Luke 22:54 ¶ Then they seized him and led him away, bringing him into the high priest’s house, and Peter was following at a distance. 55 And when they had kindled a fire in the middle of lthe courtyard and sat down together, Peter sat down among them. 56 Then a servant girl, seeing him as he sat in the light and looking closely at him, said, “This man also was with him.” 57 But he denied it, saying, “Woman, I do not know him.” 58 And a little later someone else saw him and said, “You also are one of them.” But Peter said, “Man, I am not.” 59 And after an interval of about an hour still another minsisted, saying, “Certainly this man also was with him, for he too is a Galilean.” 60 But Peter said, “Man, I do not know what you are talking about.” And immediately, while he was still speaking, the rooster crowed. 61 And the Lord turned and nlooked at Peter. And Peter remembered the saying of the Lord, how he had said to him, o“Before the rooster crows today, you will pdeny me three times.”62 And he went out and wept bitterly.

I read this today and it made me very sad. I never knew that, altho they were a distance apart (54), Jesus and Peter could still see each other(61). And Peter denied ever even knowing Jesus 3 times! That's sad and...just...sad I guess. And it made me look at my own life and question whether there are things that I do or say on a regular basis that portray me as someone who doesn't know Jesus. Because if there is, and any sin in my life is just that, a denial of Christ, its no different than what Peter did. That just brings tears to my eyes. And thankfully my sin have all been taken care of on the Cross, but I still need to confess those sins to God and repent!

If your reading this, I truly hope this causes you to examine your own life for sin that needs to be confessed and repented of! We all need that kind of conviction in our life.

Luke 20:27-39

Luke 20:27 There came to him some Sadducees, those who deny that there is a resurrection, 28 and they asked him a question, saying, “Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if a man’s brother dies, having a wife but no children, the man* must take the widow and raise up offspring for his brother. 29 Now there were seven brothers. The first took a wife, and died without children. 30 And the second 31 and the third took her, and likewise all seven left no children and died. 32 Afterward the woman also died. 33 In the resurrection, therefore, whose wife will the woman be? For the seven had her as wife.”

Luke 20:34 And Jesus said to them, z“The sons of this age amarry and aare given in marriage, 35 but those who are considered worthy to attain to that age and to the resurrection from the dead neither marry nor are given in marriage, 36 for they cannot die anymore, because they are fequal to angels and are sons of God, being sons* of the resurrection. 37 But that the dead are raised, even Moses showed, in the passage about the bush, where he calls the Lord the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob. 38 Now he is not God of the dead, but of the living, for all live to him.” 39 Then some of the scribes answered, “Teacher, you have spoken well.”

Okay I know this is kinda a long passage but it finally gave me an answer to a question I have had for a long time now. I wanted to know how the whole marriage thing worked after death. I know the vows say "until death do us part" but with my thinking, even tho you only vow till death, you still connect on a spiritual level, it goes further than just a physical thing, so it made me wonder if you were still connected in that way even after death. But from this passage I learn that no, once your dead, that's the end of the marriage and the connection. Heaven is a whole new and different life, and the focus is no longer on our needs as humans or desires as humans, we will not have any of that stuff. Christ and the life of Heaven totally completes us as beings.

All this time I could have just read this passage and had my answer! Even tho its really hard to imagine being happy without Nathan as my husband, I know that its not even going to be a thought in our minds when that time comes. Its going to be totally different, a whole new mindset for eternity. I'm thankful that the Lord showed me this and brought me to the place where I can accept this fact :)

Still working on Luke 5:1-11...I'll post it soon! Thanks for reading!