Schneider Kids 2011

Schneider's Being Us

Okay... we are a normal American family :)... a little scary, but nevertheless it is definitely us!

For Amy, my friend.... so your eyes may have rest.

Winter's First Snow

 

First Snow!

Covers the Grass.

No School.

Shovel. shovel. shovel.

Quiet streets.

Hot chocolate.

Christmas music.

Smiles.

Taste of winter.

Washed as white.

Pure white.

First snow.

From "Breaking Free" by Beth Moore...

"Breaking Free"

Question of the Week:

 

Why do you think Isaiah readily responded to the call?

"I saw the Lord sitting on a throne, lofty and exalted, with the train of His robe filling the temple... (with the Seraphim crying,) 

'Holy, holy, holy, is the LORD of hosts, the whole earth is full of His glory.'  

The foundations of the thresholds trembled at the voice of him who called out, while the temple was filling with smoke. "

Isaiah sees himself against this backdrop and cries out 

"Woe is me, for I am ruined!"

In the midst of this splendor,  in the midst of the glory of God,  in the midst of the Seraphim expressing worship, Isaiah sees his makeup.

Isaiah becomes acutely aware of his uncleanliness before a holy God.

After receiving cleansing of his iniquity and sin being forgiven, then the voice of the Lord speaks...

"Whom shall I send, and who will go for Us?"

"Here am I.  Send me!" is Isaiah's response.  Here am I, send me.

Uzziah the king has died, Isaiah sees the King of kings high and lifted up, he cries out in his awareness of his uncleanliness, his iniquity is taken away and his sins are forgiven... then he responds to the call with "Here am I, send me!"

Do we see our exalted Lord or are we blinded by ourselves?  

Do we sense our unworthiness and sin or do we hide in self-righteousness? 

Do we cry out to Him or are we too proud? 

Do we recognize we are forgiven or do we wallow?  

Do we respond to his call on our lives with "Here am I, send me?" no matter what the cost...
Are we ready to be sent?
Are we willing to respond to Him?

Here am I, Lord, 

Here am I.

Our friend Micah Tuttle

 

Alek just studied the boa that resides in South America.

The next day, he comes up to me and shows me a lego man

saying

"This is Uncle Micah!" 

Then he points to our map where we have depicted a man with a boa.

I had shown him the picture of Micah and their large boa they had seen.

The image isn't an exact replica... but you can see similarities.  

Alek with his sense of humor and enjoyment of Legos did a fairly good job, I think! :)

Call to Know

How little I know You.  How little I long to know. 
Let me know you even in my faithlessness,
For from you and through you and to you are all things.
You have chosen to show mercy on me an object of wrath prepared for destructions...

Help me to long for you, to search for you, to thirst for you...
Though I cannot understand the depths...
I want to understand all I am able
As deeply as I am designed to know you.

Open my eyes that I may see wonderful things in your law.
Jesus, I want to know you.
In my regenerate self, I want to know you.
My flesh wars within.  It wages in deception.

I am a stranger on earth;
Do not hide your commands from me.
This world is not my home.
I am a stranger here.

Romans 11
 ³³Oh, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God!
      How unsearchable his judgments,
      and his paths beyond tracing out!
 ³⁴"Who has known the mind of the Lord?
      Or who has been his counselor?"
 ³⁵"Who has ever given to God,
      that God should repay him?"
 ³⁶For from him and through him and to him are all things.
      To him be the glory forever! Amen.