"Like Newborn Babes"

So very thankful for the Word of God and his people tonight. Bible study on Friday night was especially encouraging and challenging. That time and the truth in it has followed me into these last few days (which feels like the last week :P) with such strength and joy. I pray that it continues into this coming week. May Christ be our best thought, our burning desire, our deepest passion, our consuming thought. Those are strong words, but so is our capacity for desire. To the degree that we are passionate, feeling beings may our passion find it's goal and answer in Christ. May we thirst for the scriptures like a newborn crying out for nourishment. May we faithfully and intentionally purge our minds of what is not toward Christ so that we have maximum capacity to receive and minimum distraction from truth and genuine beauty. We have been created to strain toward and mirror eternity with Christ in these present moments. Austin and I jokingly say to each other "I have hunger!!" when we're starving for dinner. I want to keep growing until I wake up every morning and say "I have hunger!!" for the Word of God. My soul must be literally starving for truth of God and I cannot function properly until I have feasted deeply there.

I've been captured lately by a phrase from a recent sermon by Josh Moody out of Romans 4. After a long description of all that Christ is and all that he has accomplished in the Gospel, he said "when we see this we will find that contentment is too weak a word!" This has been echoing in my mind over and over. If I truly see who Christ is then all else gains unutterable significance. Ordinary beauty is doubled, tripled, infinitely multiplied. In Christ, contentment is too weak a word, not too much to ask in this life. Remaining in Christ is so far from my current state. But tastes of it seem to be glimpses of heaven. I know what I'm fighting sin for now.

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Shopping list: I must be teaching boys! :) 

A Saturday afternoon treat from my co-worker Ms. Lisa. 

Austin played an incredible weekend of hockey! These pictures are super blurry, but they are just proof of how much his handwork has paid off! He skated hard, made tons of awesome plays both nights and lead the team so well as chaplain. I couldn't be prouder of the man in that #11 jersey!

Dressed for the rink

Coffee with Kelsey. Such a treat with a wonderful woman! It's so much fun to get to swap new teacher and "grown up life" stories :) 

A Suzette's treat from one of my students

This afternoon brought 3 hours of String Academy of Chicago recitals including about 8 students of mine.  

Dinner, dessert, movie and a walk with this man. So thankful for and blessed by him!