Another First for Faith

Here's another first to share.... We made a quick trip to Baltimore last weekend (cool tunnel under the harbor) to pick up my new embroidery machine. (We bought the machine from ebay and met the seller at a McDonald's). We decided to grab a quick bite to eat before we headed home. As we were packing up, Murray exclaims..."Wow! this is Faith's first time at McDonald's. We gotta get a picture of this!" So without further ado, here is our sweet baby on her first trip to Mickey D's...

That was Jaime, this is Murray now...

Another 1st for Faith, her 1st 9 hour trip in the van going cross-country to see her great-grandmother, granparents, aunts, uncles & cousins...Pray for us & pray for Faith to sleep like the baby she is! We leave Sunday, April 9, right after church for our 1st road trip to Indy with little Faithers.

And since we brought up consumeristic "McDonald's" to you today on our blog, this quote from Dallas Willard, who is one of my favorite authors, couldn't be more ON regarding Christians become CONSUMERS in other things besides hamburgers & french fries...It's a convicting quote, which I aim at myself 1st of all. We must constantly remember what we're about so that we avoid the "customer service/consumeristic" mentality.

“Consumer Christianity is now normative. The consumer Christian is one who utilizes the grace of God for forgiveness and the services of the church for special occasions, but does not give his or her life and innermost thoughts, feelings, and intentions over to the kingdom of the heavens. Such Christians are not inwardly transformed and not committed to it.”
(From The Divine Conspiracy, pp. 301, 342)

This quote appeared on my friend Mike Cope's blog www.preachermike.com and I'm thankful he brought it to his blog-community's attention.