Fall in Indiana

Just a shot taken this morning as I got out to walk in the fall colors.

New Puppy

So my wife talked me into getting a puppy and now we have welcomed Lily to our house.
Lily is a Goldendoodle that my wife found out about from Ohio. So we drove the 60 miles + to pick her up and then headed home. It was a tough choice between the two sisters but my wife picked out the smaller one of the two.
Then we headed home only to find out that Miss Barfzilla gets car sick! So 60 + miles and seven stops later we are home everybody is cleaned up and she has a whole new place to explore.
The picture is of Kacie who came home from college for the night so that she could see the new puppy.

Listen

This week our focus in the services is on listening. It is something that most of us don't do very well I'm afraid. It is so much easier to talk and to anticipate what is going to be said in return than it is to truly listen. So this weekend we will be looking at two scriptures in particular, 1 Kings 19:11-13 and John 10:1-6.
I regularly reflect upon the Kings passage and have to go away in one way or another to a mountain and listen to the stillness for the voice of God speaking into my life. Today I'm going to that mountain even if it is just in my mind as I desperately seek the voice of God.