Danger...

There are some things I am going to miss when we move to Guatemala. I used to think our popcorn popper was one of them. (We always pop popcorn when we watch a family movie.) Now, I have rediscovered the wonder of stove popped popcorn - and no, I don't mean Jiffy Pop. So, last night I was preparing to feed the new addiction...I brought the pot and bag of corn over to the stove (where I had sort of noticed Ken heating some noodles) and set them down. As soon as I sat the plastic bag of popcorn down (literally, like not even more than a second or two time delay) I realized that I had done so on Ken's recently used burner. I quickly grabbed it and pulled it off the stove - and as I did the kernels flew all over the place. Just that fast the bag had completely melted onto the burner. Thankfully I was able to rescue some of the kernels and feed the addiction.
It also led to some great family time as we crawled around trying to rescue the kernels from the floor. We didn't want to use the dirty broom in case they were salvageable. (Thing is - we have a dog, those of you who also have a dog know that no matter how often you sweep - there is always dog hair on the floor. I'm often amazed that the dog has not gone bald.) Abs and Mommy would get a nice little pile, and then Emma would try to help. Her version of pushing kernels into a pile was more like, well, scattering them out of the pile and laughing. At last she acquiesced to holding the bag open and we were able to finish the job. So, later this week the girls will be making some popcorn kernel drawings - a nice cheap craft that for some reason we have never done. See, God is even in the little things.
So, next time you go to set a plastic bag down on a stove - think DANGER and then think of me crawling around on the floor, and check the burner first.

We have been doing a lot of interesting reading for our class. A book recommendation for all of you is - Six Dangerous Questions to Transform your View of the World by Paul Borthwick. It has been very challenging to us (more so Joy who has actually finished the book.) One of Joy's favorite parts of the course has been the geography portion. My, the world has changed in the last say 2 decades since I had to learn it the first time. I now know where every country is in Africa though, and South/Central America, soon I will even know Asia and Europe. (There are sure a lot of new Stan countries...maybe we could just lump them all together and make a new continent called...hmmm...Stan.)
One of the other things our class has been concentrating on is the Unreached People Groups of the world. Soon we will be adding a daily prayer section to our blog. Those of you who check it regularly, I would encourage you to start praying with us for these people. If you have any interest in seeing more than that you can check out the website www.joshuaproject.org

Well, I still have about 100 pages of ancient missions history to read, and less than an hour to do it, so I should be going. Or, maybe I should catch up on thank you notes - yeah, that sounds like a better idea...ancient history isn't going to change much before tomorrow.

Stay tuned for kernel art....