Another week down with Caleb in Birmingham! Before I could drive up to visit, I had to help out with Baker's last football game broadcast. Afterwards, we treated the kids to Taco Bell (we're big spenders), but the lobby was closed. Being ridiculous teenagers, they walked through the drive-thru. Geez.
When I finally got home and got the broadcast upload going, it was midnight and I was pooped! About an hour into my sweet dreams, PJ started barking like crazy and she was sprinting back and forth to all the doors. Being alone, this SCARED ME. Every Criminal Minds scenario started going through my head. She finally quit barking and I went back to sleep for another hour until she woke me up again. This time, she was barfing everywhere. So at 3am, I got up again and started cleaning up her doggie barf.
Needless to say, I was super grumpy on my drive up to visit Caleb in Birmingham, but when I finally got there, we ended up having a really great weekend.
Birmingham is GORGEOUS this time of year! In Mobile, the leaves don't change colors, they just die and fall. Not in B'ham. It's awesome. Perhaps we'll be living there this time next year, who knows! We got to spend a good chunk of the weekend with our friends Tyler and Arielle which obviously made the weekend perfect. Here's me and Caleb at his home away from home.... the Medical Inn.
And here's the Church at Brook Hills where we went Sunday. This is where David Platt (wrote "Radical") preaches so we were really interested in checking it out. He basically preached on what their vision of a church is and what they're all about which is basically glorifying God and making disciples to impact the world. He preached on Psalm 67 and I'd encourage anyone to download the podcast and listen. It has really made me think on a lot of things this week. I haven't heard a sermon in a long time that really stuck with me like that.
On that note, I've also been thinking a lot about Prop 26. I'm not a resident of MS anymore, but a lot of blogs I read have been talking about it. It's left me feeling really weird about how Christians are reacting. Most of what I read from the viewpoint of Christians who support P26 quote the Bible verse about how we were "knit together in the womb" and go on to talk about how every life is precious. Of course I agree with that- only monsters think a human life is not precious.
What leaves me feeling weird is that it stops there.The argument is against abortion, but I feel like people's passion for the unborn child fades once the baby is born. An unwanted baby typically becomes an unwanted child, but where's the fight for them?
If we claim every life is precious, I feel like we as Christians need to follow through in a major way... volunteering at after school programs and daycares, adopting a Mississippi child into our home and family, giving food on days other than Thanksgiving and Christmas, making sure children have warm coats and aren't living with child molesters... the list is endless. It's easy to be against abortion, but if we're going to fight it so vehemently with our words, I think it's only fair to say we should actually help make things better. This probably offended someone, although it wasn't my intent.
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