Pillar of Preservative

I have had Lot's wife in my head for weeks now. I just can't stop thinking about her. I find myself writing this blog post in my mind over and over in my daydreams (which usually occur only in the shower or after I should be in bed). I find myself fearful of being Lot's wife.

I think about the city they lived in and the rampant sin all around. How she had to make a life in it, do the best she could. I picture her being the good helpmeet, keeping the house and home in order, when just outside her door is a vicious animal of sin ready to devour her and her family. I think... I am doing the same thing, just trying to be the best wife and mom I know how.

Then I think about the mandate to leave. Now, just go, and don't look back. NOW, DO NOT LOOK BACK. What do you think she said...

Um, really, God said go now? ... Lot, are you sure he said now?... Lot, I am in the middle of dinner and the clothes need hung to dry, give me just a minute... Really Lot, we have all our things here, grab the family menorah, oh and don't forget the oil, we will need that... Maybe she just hesitated and looked at her life in the walls of her home. Wouldn't you do that... take one last look on the way out the door.

Maybe she was the dutiful wife. Maybe she walked right out the door with Lot and never hesitated. Maybe she just wanted to remember her home there. To look at the surrounding one last time. If I could know that a tornado was coming to my house but I could get in the car and drive away before it happened, you bet I would be looking out the window. I would be looking to see if it really was close to my house. I would be guessing the place where it was landing. I would be glued to the window, I know I would. So was that her reason for turning around?

She turns around and poof, she if a pillar of salt. Have you ever thought about her turning into salt? Scripture repeatedly uses salt as a good thing and here it is a sandy death, or is it. I wonder if her changing into salt was seen as a preservative? Did they see her death as useful in some way? It fascinates me that God chose to make her a pillar of salt. So does that mean she was a Godly woman that made a deadly mistake. What if the salt was to remind us that a simple mistake can be used for the preservation of the righteous, yet the consequences on earth can be sudden and deadly.

How many times do we look back... All those what ifs and should haves. I bet I do it daily, so does that mean I am not living in God's will, am I not Godly enough, am I going be an example of what not to do, like Lot's wife?

Thankfully there is grace, undeserved favor. I use much more than my fair share, but God keeps dishing it out. Just because he loves. Me.

I pray I can be like Lot's wife... not the sandy death part and the big uh oh part, but the preservative part. I pray I am able to leave one Godly example here on earth that will be talked about longer than my years. I pray that even if it's all about what not to do, that others will learn from my mistakes.

Anything to be used by God.

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Progressive Christmas Part 1 & 2

So we are having a progressive Christmas... One night we put up the tree and we read about evergreens and how they represent the eternalness of Christ. We also talked about the shape of a triangle and how that reminds us of the trinity. How it points up to heaven. How it's a tree cut off from it's place like Christ was cut off from heaven for a time. How it's been brought into a home to bring us a message, just like Christ was brought to earth to give us a message. And that was just about the tree it's self!

A few days later we put the lights on the tree and talked about the story of Martin Luther walking through the woods and seeing the stars through the trees wanted to recreate it on his own tree. It's nice to look at the light on the tree and think of the stars in the sky.

This has been so much fun, we haven't even gotten any further that that but, I can hear the kids talk about what we have learned and they enjoy the process too.
We have been a bit crafty as well, we made a candy train to countdown the days to Christmas. Reign has made a wreath out of origami paper, although it was blue and orange. (War Eagle!) Boy has been the "mailman" to the advent calendar. I found a great one but now I can't find where I got it so I can't share it with you (bummer). I will let you know if I can find it! I pray that when the season is over, we have made a great tradition and more than that... good memories!