haha - fooled you...i did decide to write tonight - sillies...

Today felt like a day for digging, hauling dirt and rocks, and conserving the mosaic floor – so that’s what our team did. Yay! I’m not sure there is anything super exciting to report about today…although every day up at the site brings something new and intriguing. Nancy, Arny, Jim, and I worked on conserving and cleaning the mosaic floor. Here is a picture of the mosaic I cleaned up!

Nancy made a really good statement today – that it takes perseverance to work on this floor for about 7 hours straight (well…we do get a half hour for breakfast, so that’s good)! I thought that was an interesting statement and decided to read the Romans 5 passage on perseverance:
“Not only so, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and character, hope. And hope does not disappoint us, because God has poured out his love into our hearts by the Holy Spirit, whom he has given us.”

Not that we are suffering when we work on the mosaic, but it is something to think about for our lives. Sometimes there are things we have to do that we don’t necessarily want to do. God can still use those things to develop us and to create us into the people He wants us to be. I think the most relevant or at least comforting statement in that passage is that “God has poured out his love into our hearts by the Holy Spirit, whom he has given us.” God loves us! He gave us His Holy Spirit, and not only that but His son - who suffered and died so that we might be redeemed. Wow. “And this is my prayer: that your love may abound more and more in knowledge and depth of insight, so that you may be able to discern what is best and may be pure and blameless until the day of Christ, filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ—to the glory and praise of God.” ~ Romans 9-11

Ok…that’s all I have for today. I’m going to get some sleep. I’m tired!