Here are our weekend plans for those who are available...

Sunday Night @ 7 p.m. – Games at the Mulder’s Home
Address: 4179 Blair Street Hudsonville MI 49426
Phone: 669-7856

Monday afternoon:
The Mulder’s are also having a U of M Rose Bowl Party;
It is for Water’s Edge friends as well as Sara’s friends.
Beginning around 4:30 p.m. with the game at 5 p.m.

Feel free to take munchie food to either thing;
But don’t feel obligated to take food.
We’ve eaten enough recently.

Have a GREAT & safe weekend!
Randy

Our man died...

Gerald R. Ford died on Dec. 26. We're from West Michigan. Grand Rapids. We was OUR man. He grew up here. He was elected to the House of Reps by our grandparents and their friends. He was OUR man.

Honestly, I wasn't a huge fan. I was a fan though. And I'm sensing sadness within myself tonight. Here is a partial reason he'll be missed. His words as he took over as our President:

August of 1974 - "I believe that truth is the glue that holds government together. Not only our government, but civilization itself. That bond, though stained, is unbroken at home and abroad.

In all my public and private acts as your president, I expect to follow my instincts of openness and candor with full confidence that honesty is always the best policy in the end. My fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is over."

Sweet words. Words of hope. Words of goodness. Oh, I crave a politcal voice who could lead us with honesty again.

No Gathering on Dec 24

Water's Edge met last night (Friday). We will not be meeting together on Sunday.

More wisdom... from my boy

So, today I'm in the Jeep with my son for a while, and out of nowhere he asks, "Dad, does God have kids?"

SMACK!

The easy answer? Umm. So, I answered, "Yes, Jesus is God's son."

So, now God has a son. Of course, God has a Son, but a son?

I just found it to be a profoundly deep question. Our simple answer isn't exactly right. We consider Jesus God's son, and yet not in the same sense that we think of kids.

And it also made me think: Perhaps the simple Trinity analogy of Augustine, now nearly 2000 years old, could be improved. People all too quickly get up in arms whenever we begin to hope for a better explanation of the Trinity.

Yet, we have hoped for better understandings of God, a.k.a. better theology, since the beginnings of time. We have idolized the early church fathers, the reformers, and a few theologians here and there... BUT we seem unwilling to reconsider our understanding of the Trinity?

I'm sure we can do better if we only dare. My answer for my son was less than helpful... perhaps helpful for a four year old but totally helpless for me...