The Burnt-Over Blog: Goodbye Spring

Friday, April 11, 2008

Goodbye Spring

Seeing as Seth is in Independence this weekend, I thought I would add some more pictures on the blog of our cute little kids. Seth took the camera with him so he should have fun pictures when he gets back!

Spring has come and gone now in Florida. It lasted a couple of weeks and now we are in the 80's all over again. I can't complain though as we had a great winter! If you can even call it that here; wouldn't seem fair too with family and friends in Utah! Nonetheless it is over and now the flowers are blooming and its hot weather. Hopefully when we come out to Utah in a month we can relive a little bit of spring all over again.

Here are the cute pictures of Ella in her other Easter dress from "Amma" Sue. Link is in his easter outfit as well, a couple weeks late but oh well.

4 comments:

The Prices!! . said...: Your kids are adorable Jenn!! I hope you are well, Be careful and don't melt in that heat!; April 12, 2008 at 1:54 PM
Sarah said...: She looks SO cute in her Easter dress!!; April 12, 2008 at 9:26 PM
Stewart Family said...: They are beautiful kids!; April 14, 2008 at 2:27 AM
MARIE said...: Jenn, why is your email not working anymore? since I'm leaving I decided to throw a party for myself... hehe! jk. We're going to the Olive Garden on Thursday at 8pm. You must come! It will be so fun. You could come over to my house and we could carpool. Let me know if you're in. oh ya, and you have to wear your hair like Tracy Turnblad on Hairspray. jk! But seriously I'm just to be a HAM!; April 15, 2008 at 7:13 AM

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The Meaning of Christ on the Cross

At the heart of divine love is sacrifice-the willingness to be diminished so that another may be increased. This is the meaning of Christ on the cross. God, who could have insulated himself from pain, descended to earth, assumed the aspect of his children, and bore the greatest pain in his own person. Rather than hoard the heavenly feast for himself, he invites beggars to his table. He breaks bread with us and drinks from the cup our lips have touched. When he speaks to us, it is no longer from a great white throne, centered in a vortex of light, surrounded by celestial griffins, warding off the unwashed. He speaks to us eye to eye, from a traitor’s gibbet, with his blood and sweat and shame upon him for all to see, and with his wounds forever open. He comes not as king, but as slave. He comes not as judge, but as accused. He comes not as patriarch, but as bastard. He comes not to punish us, but to let us punish him. He does not ask us to love him until we are first certain that he loves us. He is the great failure who saves us from our success. He is the great fool who spares us from our wisdom. He is the rejected lover who will not, in turn, reject his love. He is a prophet without honor, a citizen of a despised nation, a poor relation, an unwanted guest. He is the voice of one crying in the wilderness of every human heart. He is the God of grief and sorrow who is the joy of our desiring. He is utterly good because he loves us in our sins and imperfections, because he freely made himself equal to us, and because he freely opened the way whereby we may be made equal to him.

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Conversion is a permanent process in which very often the obstacles we meet make us lose all we had gained and start anew. The fruitfulness of our conversion depends on our openness to doing this, our spiritual childhood. All conversion implies a break. To wish to accomplish it without conflict is to deceive oneself and others: "No one is worthy of me who cares more for father or mother than for me." But it is not a question of a withdrawn and pious attitude. Our conversion process is affected by the socio-economic, political, cultural, and human environment in which it occurs. Without a change in these structures, there is no authentic conversion. We have to break with our mental categories, with the way we relate to others, with our way of identifying with the Lord, with our cultural milieu, with our social class, in other words, with all that can stand in the way of a real, profound solidarity with those who suffer, in the first place, from misery and injustice. Only thus, and not through purely interior and spiritual attitudes, will the 'new person' arise from the ashes of the 'old.'"
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