Sunday's Hymn: Christ, We Do All Adore Thee

Christ, we do all adore thee, and we do praise thee forever;
Christ, we do all adore thee, and we do praise thee forever,
For on the holy cross, hast thou the world from sin redeemeth.
Christ, we do all adore thee, and we do praise thee forever. 

Christ, we do all adore thee. 

Other hymns, worship songs, sermons etc. posted today:

• Blessed Fountain of Blood at By Grace Alone
• O God, Our Strength in Weakness at Conjubilant With Song
• Crucible of Grace at Theology for Girls
• How Deep the Father’s Love at Gospel Grace
• From Glory Unto Glory at The Happy Wonderer
• Lifting Up Our Hearts - 12 at The Upward Call
• Too Much Sunshine at Tried With Fire
• Lord’s Day 2, 2014 at The Thirsty Theologian
• Your Weekly Dose of Spurgeon at Pyromaniacs: God must help

Have you posted a hymn (or sermon, sermon notes, prayer, etc.) today and I missed it? Let me know by leaving a link in the comments or by contacting me using the contact form linked above, and I’ll add your post to the list.

Tossing Snacks

This month’s theme at Out of the Ordinary is reading, and today was my day to post, so I told a true story about me and my fiction reading habits.

One day, when my oldest children were toddlers, I found myself reading a novel, sitting in a rocker I’d pulled into the kitchen beside the fridge. When one of the children fussed for my attention, I’d open the fridge door and toss a snack to keep things quiet while I read just a little longer—to the end of the chapter, then a few paragraphs into the next, and with yet another tossed snack, the rest of the new chapter, too.

Read the rest.

Status Report: January

Sitting…on the couch in the living room.

Drinking…mint tea. Because it’s almost bedtime, so no caffeine for me.

Feeling…tired from a day spent with my two toddler granddaughters—and a couple hours with my almost toddler grandson. It was a great day: We took a long woods walk/sled ride in our perfect winter weather, played hide and seek in the house afterward. All day long, there was almost no whining or squabbling. (Recently there’s been some cousin rivalry happening, but not today.) Still, I’m tired, because even well-behaved toddlers are exhausting.

Enjoying…perfect winter weather. I’m repeating, I know, but it’s January in the Yukon. Good weather gets double mention. 

Also enjoying…nights warm enough to sleep with the bedroom window open. I like sleeping in a very cold room under a mountain of quilts and blankets.

Liking…the string of Christmas lights I left up on the mantle. I could not go from well-lit tree to nothing lit at all. I leave them on all day long to curse the winter darkness. 

Saddened…to hear that the father of one of my youngest daughter’s elementary school friends has been missing since December 19. I can’t imagine what it would be like to have a family member disappear and not know what happened. I’m praying there’s a happy explanation, but afraid there won’t be.

Thinking…about taking a trip. I’ll say more if (and when) it happens.

Reading…this book (half-way through 600 pages now) and, when I need a change of pace, The House of Wittgenstein: A Family at War, which I highly recommend, too. And to the granddaughters, this afternoon, I read Ezra Jack Keats’ The Snowy Day (library edition), which came in the mail today. (I ordered two other library edition picture books, too—Peter’s Chair (Keats again) and Make Way for Ducklings (Robert McCloskey)—but they are coming in a separate shipment.)

Anticipating…the end of the kitchen project. All the bottom cabinets are painted now, and when the paint has set for a week, they will be installed. The countertops can be installed then, too, and I will have half a working kitchen.