God Bless Ben Stein

Shawn and I went to "Expelled" today. It was an intriguing documentary to say the least. It is basically about the persecution scientists receive when they present Intelligent Design as an option for the earth's origin. And these are not even necessarily Christian scientists, but just scientists who see the flaws in the theory of evolution as Darwin saw it, and who want to look at the possibility of a designer for the obvious intricate design of our world.
He also interviewed Richard Dawkins, the author of The God Delusion. Ben was able to get him to acknowledge that he could not be 100% sure there was no God. I must say it was somewhat depressing, however, the question continues to run through your head, at least, my head..."What can I do?" And Ben Stein eventually asked that question to one of the scientists. And the answer was basically to work to get the word out of the persecution that is taking place. Thank God Ben Stein has the platform to do so. And I encourage everyone to see this movie, if you can handle being called an idiot, as one of the scientists does for our belief in God and the Bible. So what CAN I do? To start, I can pray. I will even pray for Richard Dawkins; that he would have a "Road to Damascus" experience.

Good advice

Proverbs 3: 3 Let not mercy and truth forsake you, Bind them around your neck, Write them on the tablet of your heart, 4 And so find favor and high esteem In the sight of God and man.
I read this verse the other night and found it interesting in the NKJV that it read "mercy and truth" because I had memorized it in the NIV as "love and faithfulness." I went to the concordance to try to get to the bottom of it, but my lack of training in Hebrew hinders me. :) What I came up with is both words there refer to some sort of faithfulness. Don't get me wrong...all four traits are beneficial! :) I love reading through Proverbs. Sometimes it can be overwhelming, but if there is any advice needed...it's in there! Just think: Solomon was told he could have anything in the world and he asked for wisdom and God gave it to him... and then he wrote it down to give to us! If you haven't read "The Riches Man Who Ever Lived", you should.
I love all of Proverbs chapter 3, but I'll sign off with just a portion of the rest of it.
v5 Trust in the LORD with all your heart,
And lean not on your own understanding;
6 In all your ways acknowledge Him,
And He shall direct your paths.
7 Do not be wise in your own eyes;
Fear the LORD and depart from evil.
8 It will be health to your flesh,
And strength to your bones.

Weekend in Cody

We're in Cody for the weekend to check on things and pick up some stuff for spring. Although I'm beginning to wonder if they have a spring in Bozeman! :) There is still snow on the ground. We are having a beautiful spring day here in Cody, but it sounds like there will be snow for our drive back to Bozeman tomorrow. It's a nice break to be in "our house." We do have a showing tomorrow afternoon. Pray with us! :) I know you all are and we appreciate it. His timing is perfect.
I had a good meeting with the pastor's wife from the large AG church this week. Also pray for direction for us for ministry there. There is a new church plant we will also be looking into. We are excited and asking the Lord for His vision for Bozeman and how we can be apart of it! What a privelege!

Where I am

Here is a video of where I'm staying. I'm standing in the middle of the driveway. Allison has a Catahoula named Teka. She is the sweetest thing. She has a weiner dog too named Nellie, but I couldn't find her to take her picture. It's pretty funny... Nellie and Teka have the same color coat. And Sadie actually let me take her picture!

My crazy weekend

Anybody want to buy a couple of dogs? Friday night I let them out one last time to go to the bathroom...when I called them to come in only Rocky came. I called and called to Sadie but she didn't come. So about 10:30 I bundled up and got a flashlight and went strolling through the pastures with Rocky telling him to take me to her. I sometimes like to think he is as smart as Lassie. There was a dog barking a little ways off so I started in that direction thinking Sadie may be making it bark. The closer I got the more it sounded like Sadie barking, and sure enough it was. She was trapped in a chain link fence. So I found the gate and let her out. Boy was she excited to see me! So I got the dogs home just before 11. We went to bed and Rocky was restless all night. Finally at 5:40 he was whining like crazy so I got up and let him out and he only made it up to the kitchen and pooped in the middle of the floor. So I cleaned it up and let them out and he took off. I let him go and went back to bed. So at 7:30 he jumped on the door so I got up and let him in. I went back to bed and got up later and started laundry. Then around 11 am I let them out and a few minutes later I went to check on them and they were nowhere to be found. I kept checking for them and by 2 pm I started to get worried. I was suppose to go into town to meet Shawn so I called him to let him know I couldn't find the dogs. I went trekking through the pastures again and didn't see them. By 3 pm he came out to help me and we drove the near-by neighborhoods and didn't see any sign of them. And by the way, it was a blizzard outside. So visibility was not good at all. I thought there was no way those dogs are out there in that weather. So I called the Humane Society and Animal Control and they hadn't heard anything but took down my info in case they did. So at 4 pm I got back in the car and went door-to-door to the row of houses next to us. Everyone was so nice, but noone had seen them. I left my name and number with them in case they did. When I got done with the last house I went around the block and there they were running across the street right in front of me!!! I honked my horn at them and they stopped and looked. I opened the door and hollered at them and they came running to me. They were a mess! They were soaking wet and downtrodden. The direction they were going was back towards the house, but who knows if that's what they were doing. I like to think so because they didn't seem too happy. I started bawling and called Shawn. When I told him I found them he asked me if they were dead because I was crying so hard. I don't know why...stupid dogs. So we locked them up in the kennel and went to our bbq with Shawn's friends and watched the game. The Tarheels looked about as lost as my dogs on the court those first few minutes! Ha!
We had the biggest flakes I'd seen in a long time falling last night. We got almost a foot of the heavy, wet stuff. Today turned into a nice day, but I think we're suppose to get more snow tonight. Yeah.