I'm just posting a couple of photos so that I can use one of them as the photo in my profile. This is the way that the Blogger instructions say to do it and I'm not technically sophisticated enough to figure out another way!
This is my granddaughter Elliot (22 months at the time) and me September 9 in a restaurant in Port Angeles, WA. Elliot thought she was tickling my neck, and I was pretending to react in an exaggerated way. Elliot loved it! And so did I.
This is my granddaughter Elliot (22 months at the time) and me September 9 in a restaurant in Port Angeles, WA. Elliot thought she was tickling my neck, and I was pretending to react in an exaggerated way. Elliot loved it! And so did I.
5 comments:
Your granddaughter is beautiful Debbie. And so is her grandmother.
Love the pictures and happy belated birthday!
Cute photo, Debbie! One of these days we need to compare blogger notes. I'm not having much luck with photos either.
Hugs, Judy
I'd figure I'd post on this site, rather than on my 2004 blog post that you responded to a few days ago.
First of all, prayers, for you and your family as you negotiate difficult health issues.
I appreciate the corrections you offered. I always try to offer correct information, but for most of my blogging that comes second hand from the press.
I'm not upset at conservatives, read them often (reading Francis Schaefer today actually). But I do want to see the end of church trials and other coercive measures.
And I'd like to find ways to live together across the spectrum as the church, so that were connected not by agreement about this or that doctrine or practice but because we've been called by God to live together.
Dwight,
This is Jim Berkley, Debbie's husband, writing.
Concerning your final comment: "I'd like to find ways to live together across the spectrum as the church, so that we're connected not by agreement about this or that doctrine or practice but because we've been called by God to live together."
That sounds wonderful. Who wouldn't want that?
But there are immediate problems. For instance, without doctrine, who is this God who has called us to live together? Thor? Hermes? Or is this God the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ? Yeah, but what does "Father" mean in that context, and especially "Lord"? Immediately we get into doctrine.
The only time doctrine doesn't matter is when I get to determine what doctrine matters and everyone else just has to go along. Without that dictate, then doctrine will matter, and doctrine will be a topic of conversation.
And we can just forget differences in practice as we placidly live together--until my practice offends you. My practice of swinging my arms wildly may end up bloodying your nose, and about that point, I would guess that you would take practice seriously.
If anything we believe is substantive, rather than just a mind game, and if anything we do affects others, then belief and practice will be points of conversation and even contention.
They always have. They always will.
That said, however, just how we go about contending over doctrine and practice will say a lot about what our doctrine of God is, and how well we practice what we believe about God.
God's best to you, Dwight.
Jim Berkley
Bellevue, WA
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