I'm back -

That is all.

look out, here comes the house!

I bet the Wicked Witch of the West wished she heard that warning before she was smashed into a pancake... Luckily, the announcement of our little baby is warning enough for us.

This is just a little plea for prayer in our search for a house that both Aaron and I will be happy with and our little baby will have room to grow in. We've already seen some, and we go to look at another one today ...

♥

LaPita

I tried Arabic food today - and, may I say, "YUMMY!"

C.S. Lewis - Points to Ponder

“Love may forgive all infirmities and love still in spite of them: but Love cannot cease to will their removal.”
--The Problem of Pain

"We regard God as an airman regards his parachute; it's there for emergencies but he hopes he'll never have to use it."
--The Problem of Pain

"[God] is not proud...He will have us even though we have shown that we prefer everything else to Him."
--The Problem of Pain

"If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world."
--Mere Christianity

"The human mind has no more power of inventing a new value than of planting a new sun in the sky or a new primary colour in the spectrum..."
--Christian Reflections

"When you are arguing against Him you are arguing against the very power that makes you able to argue at all."
--Mere Christianity

"[Consciousness] is either inexplicable illusion, or else revelation."
--The Problem of Pain

"Of all bad men religious bad men are the worst."
--Reflections on the Psalms

"Those that hate goodness are sometimes nearer than those that know nothing at all about it and think they have it already."
--The Great Divorce

"There are no variations except for those who know a norm, and no subtleties for those who have not grasped the obvious."
--An Experiment in Criticism

"The moment good taste knows itself, some of its goodness is lost."
--Surprised by Joy

"Odd, the way the less the Bible is read the more it is translated."
--Letters (25 May 1962)

"We may ignore, but we can nowhere evade, the presence of God."
--Letters to Malcolm

"A creature revolting against a creator is revolting against the source of his own powers--including even his power to revolt...It is like the scent of a flower trying to destroy the flower."
--A Preface to Paradise Lost

"The gravitation away from God, 'the journey homeward to habitual self', must, we think, be a product of the Fall."
--The Problem of Pain

"All that we call human history--money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery--[is] the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy."
--Mere Christianity

"The natural life in each of us is something self-centred, something that wants to be petted and admired, to take advantage of other lives, to exploit the whole universe."
--Mere Christianity

"[The natural life] knows that if the spiritual life gets hold of it, all its self-centredness and self-will are going to be killed and it is ready to fight tooth and nail to avoid that."
--Mere Christianity

"Prostitutes are in no danger of finding their present life so satisfactory that they cannot turn to God: the proud, the avaricious, the self-righteous, are in that danger."
--The Problem of Pain (200)

"The terrible thing, the almost impossible thing, is the hand over your whole self--all your wishes and precautions--to Christ."
--Mere Christianity

"Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained."
--Answers to Questions on Christianity