Blowing the Whole Day

Both grandbabies visited me today. The youngest one and her mother spent the whole day because they have no heat in their home and it’s cold out. 

I did nothing on my to-do list except one load of laundry. We were all sitting in the living room at 4:30pm and I remarked, “I basically blew a whole day.”

“Well I guess if you call spending time with your granddaughters blowing it!” said my daughter. It was a reprimand I deserved. Which is more important? My list of chores or cuddling the babies?

I have a couple of blog posts planned. You’ll see them when I have a day without important interruptions. But it’s still cold, and I suspect the youngest granddaughter will be here all day again tomorrow. I’ll probably be busy holding a baby.

Thankful Thursday

We got the first real snow of the year last night, and it looks like it will stay, at least for a few days. I’m not thrilled, but the dogs love it, and it does give everything a pretty winter light. So I’m thankful for snow to make the dogs happy and snow to brighten things up. And I’m thankful for the beautiful, long fall we had. 

Granddaughter Amelia and her mother spent the afternoon with me. They’ll get the new furnace in their house on October 17, but until then, they have no heat, so they came here to be warm. I’m thankful I can provide a warm place for them, and I’m thankful for little Amelia, who entertained us all afternoon with her squeals and giggles.

I’m thankful the dog’s foot seems to be healing. He cut it badly on Sunday afternoon right before our big Thanksgiving dinner. We had to delay everything while we stopped the bleeding and bandaged it up. He’s still hopping around on three legs, but the wound looks good. I’m thankful for the my daughter-in-law the nurse who helped us bandage him up. 

I’m thankful for all God’s material provisions for me, but most of all, I’m thankful for the provision of salvation in Christ for me.

Always Being Together, and Always Working Together

Quoting from Delighting in the Trinity: An Introduction to the Christian Faith by Michael Reeves: 

Before creation, before all things, … the Father was loving and begetting his Son. For eternity, that was what the Father was doing. He did not become Father at some point; rather, his very identity is to be the one who begets the Son. That is who he is. Thus it is not as if the Father and the Son bumped into each other at some point and found to their surprise how remarkably well they got on. The Father is who he is by virtue of his relationship with the Son. Think again of the image of the fountain: a fountain is not a fountain if it does not pour forth water. Just so, the Father would not be the Father without his Son (whom he loves through the Spirit). And the Son would not be the Son without his Father. He has his very being from the Father. And so we see that the Father, Son, and Spirit, while distinct persons, are absolutely inseparable from each other. Not confused, but undividable. They are who they are together. They always are together, and thus they always work together.

So the Father could not exist without the Son or the Spirit. His very identity comes from his relationship with them. Same thing for the Son and the Spirit. The are who they are because they are eternally in relationship with the other members of the Trinity.