Pregnancy, Week 8

Well, almost the END of week 8…

We had a scare last night (Thursday). We got home from the Indianapolis Indians game, and Shannon had some bleeding. We called the after-hours emergency line for the Ob/Gyn, and the doctor on call told her to come in first thing this morning, and they would do an ultrasound (we were scheduled for one for next week anyway, the first one).

He said that if the baby had a heartbeat this morning, that there was less than a 5% chance that we’d miscarry, but if there was no heartbeat, then we already had. He also said to keep an eye on the bleeding, and if it worsened, to call him back.

Needless to say, we had a tense night. We prayed, we asked some friends to pray for us, and we waited.

This morning we went in, and there it was. Our baby. Just hanging there. Upside down. With a strong heartbeat in the 190′s. WOW. So everything is A-OK. Praise God! And a very special thanks to those who prayed with and for us last night, we deeply appreciate it.

While things were quite frightnening last night, the wonderful blessing out of this is that we got to hear the heartbeat and see the baby (or blob, really) a week early!

And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose. (Romans 8:28 ESV)

Reformation Theology: Plaeze wtach yuor Spellnig on htis blog

Reformation Theology: Plaeze wtach yuor Spellnig on htis blog

This is awesome.

I’ve seen information about this research before, but someone incorporated it into their blog as a posting. Shannon read it and just about freaked out. (That’s always a good thing in my house. Or should I say, Taht’s aywlas a good tnhig in my husoe.)

Hm, this would make an interesting software project. A “still recognizable word scrambler.”

Update: Too late. Someone beat me to it: Stephen E. Sachs, “The Jumbler”

The Harvest Truly Is Plentiful

And he said to them, “The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few. Therefore pray earnestly to the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest.(Luke 10:2 ESV)

In several parables, our Lord used the analogy of a sower and his crops, including, of course, the Parable of the Sower.

What a glorious picture this is for evangelism! The sower does not try to avoid the wayside. He does not horde his seed near the stony places. He does not look upon the thorns and say, “The seed will get choked there.” He does not stop to test the soil, poke his finger in it, and say, “Here I will get a good yield.”

No, he does none of these things. He takes the seed, and casts it far and wide. He knows some will fall along the wayside. He knows that some will fall on the stony places. He knows that some will be choked by the thorns. And he knows that some will fall on good ground and yield a crop.

Does the sower know which particular seeds will fall where? He does not. But he trusts in the providence of God to say, “This seed will yield a crop.”

Let us spread the seed far and wide. Some will fall on the wayside. Some will fall on stony places. Some be choked by the thorns. But some will fall on good ground. Therefore let us go out and gather the harvest, as our Lord commands.

Commuting, and Site News

If only there were a way that drivers could somehow signal their intention to turn… Perhaps some kind of specialized equipment installed on vehicles…

Ah, the joys of the morning commute.

Anyway, as you may have noticed (insert sound of crickets chirping), the site redesign is making progress. It’s still a work in progress, as is obvious from the right-side banner stopping abruptly half-way down the page. That will be corrected as soon as I can figure out how to either correct the HTML/CSS layout I’m using, or replace it. (Any fellow geeks out there with insight of how to stretch the div element, post a comment. Otherwise, I’m going back to “old-school” with a table layout. I’ll do it, too!)

Quote of the Day: Biblical Literacy

From Mark Dever, pastor of Capitol Hill Baptist Church, Washington, D.C.:

George Gallup reports that Americans revere the Bible, but they don’t read it. And because they don’t read it they have become a nation of Biblical illiterates. 4 Americans in 5 believe the Bible is the literal or inspired Word of God. And yet only 4 in 10 could tell you that it was Jesus who gave the Sermon on the Mount. And fewer than half can name the four Gospels.

- from the sermon “What Does God Want of Us? An Overview of the Whole Bible”