Life of the Simmons

Can you keep up? We have a new little girl and live in Chapel Hill, NC ( a new town). Daniel has a new job and we're currently looking for a new house!

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Saturday, July 16, 2005

Cookout with supporters and my thoughts from it

We had a cookout last night with some of our supporters in Winston-Salem. I haven't been encouraged like that in a long time. It refreshed my heart to know that men and women of God are on our team and really want to be a part of what He is doing in us and at FMU. If you get a chance to support someone, do it, it blesses your life and the life of someone else. It made God bigger than I had known in the past, more real in His true self. I have been thinking often lately that in the college Christian community, God is small, even if we say He is big. I'm not sure we even know what a big God is. We can't wrap our minds around God's power or presence, or simplicity. I say simplicity because in JI Packers Knowing God, he talks about God cannot do anything unholy. There is no delimna to God like we have. Packer says we view God as too much like us. We have these very complex lives and come to forks in the road where we don't know where to go, and we are confused, and we wonder what the heck does God want me to do, and what is right in this situation. God does not have these situations. His character is more simple, He does the Holy thing. How do we follow this? I'm not sure. But I know that if I strive to know God, and go to His word, it will go a long way into allowing me to make the Holy decision when I'm in a hard situation. What does this have to do with my supporters? They want to know God, they want to see Jesus glorified, same as me, and same as God, and that just shows how simple God is in what He wants for us.
On a parting note, I want to say thank you to mine and Wendy's supporters. We appreciate you, and pray 2Cr 9:10 for you which says: Now He who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will supply and multiply your seed for sowing and increase the harvest of your righteousness
May your harvest of righteousness be great, God bless you, and blessed by the name of the Lord.

Tuesday, July 12, 2005

Man...shoot

Wellll, we left our camera cord to post pictures in our lovely Orlando hotel room, so we'll not be posting any pics soon. And those are what everyone gets on to see, right? Somone who reads this, please leave a comment telling me how to create links so that I can link to all you friends! Dan the man and I are doing well, back in Flo-town, OUR HOME, for the first time in 51 days. This is one of the mini-tough things in our otherwise awesome job. Hope everyone is doing well, knowing God more in their day to day life. AND, congratulations to Abby and Daniel Umlauf, our newly married buds. Their wedding was on the lake and AWESOME, I mean, what other wedding have you been to where the groom cuts the cake in his bathing suit and you get to ride the jet ski and chill in the lake while a cool band plays in the background?!?! Hope to get some picutres up soon! Peace out