“The RoseBouquet”

Well, building my Mission displays at the office has grown into a more complicated venture all the time. I had hoped to get the smaller nostalgia one finished last week. I’ve made good progress, but I couldn’t get finished yesterday either. Now I’m hoping I can complete it this afternoon, and then I’ll have three afternoons left to finish the larger one showing what our mission has on the go right now.

This Friday evening I am to pack all this up and take it to my old home church at Neuanlage Grace Mennnonite. That’s about a 40 minute drive north of the city. I may have to snitch time promised to other things to get this finished. I keep seeing more that could be done, and I may just have to set some parts or ideas aside to add later.

Other than that, I am keeping up my usual work agenda with most mornings on my own web businesses, and evenings on clients’ sites.

I do have an invitation to speak on behalf of the mission next week Tuesday morning, but I will try to get the RoseBouquet ready ahead of time. I may just post it before I leave for that mid-morning appointment.

Last week I decided to set myself a new Bible study series for my own devotional time, and then to use those thoughts and observations for articles to use here in the Ruthe’s Roses section. My basic thinking is this; my novel and my site are focused on the theme of friendship, so I should be writing more articles on that theme. Each one becomes another page in my site, and thus pushes my main goals forward.

But this morning I noticed a unique trend in these studies. As I hunt through the main stories of the Bible from Genesis forward I see that over and over again, God is looking for an intimate relationship with us individuals. We found last week that God came to walk and talk with Adam and Eve in the cool of the evening. Don’t most of us like to socialize after our work day has ended?

Next I found that God walked and talked with Enoch too, and one day God just took Enoch home with Him. So we will look at this relationship in the article below today. But looking ahead I see that Abraham was called a friend of God. We will likely find that this happens over and over in the Bible, and that excites me, because the theme of my testimony and life is that God wants to have that kind of relationship with each of us!

Have you started on your friendship with Him?