Memorable Quotes heard at CBI

"I once caught a fish as large as a car...door...handle." - Al Franklin

"Fan the flame, shun the shame, hold the same" - Al Franklin (emphasizing a theme from the Pastoral Epistles.)

"Write your plans in pencil" - Mrs. Kunnari

"There is no purpose in living, if there is no point in dying" - Said by someone I can't remember. =)

"I thought about doing a message on Naaman. It deals with seven ducks in a muddy river, but then I realized it wasn't all it was quacked up to be." - Mr. Townsend

(Nursery Door Sign) "We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed." - Mr. Townsend

Students: "What are you looking for?" Mr. Townsend (gazing out the window): " I'm looking for the Lord to return, because the Bible says He will come in an hour ye think not...and you're not thinking!" - Mr. Townsend (after asking questions and getting blank looks from his students.)

"They who carried the last class out, will carry thee out also. Good luck on the test" - written on the white board by Celeste Franklin before a test in "Acts" class

"A guy came to America and noticed all these people out jogging and exercising. He went back to his doctor in England and told him about it. The doctor said in response, 'That just makes you look better in the casket!" - Al Franklin (while talking about 1 Timothy 4:8 during Bible Conference)

"Women don't say what they mean, but they mean what they say!" - Mr. Townsend

Satisfied in Him

"God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing."

- C. S. Lewis

Fantastic Frozen Fun

(Yeah…trying saying that ten times fast! ;)

My brother David told me that it was 70 degrees on Sunday in SC and I laughed over the fact that it's almost a 95 degree difference from what we're having here in SD.

So, you ask what it feels like to experience -24 degree weather?

The answer is simple.

Cold.

You know it's cold when a college student not only has to scrape the outside of his windshield, before driving, but also the inside! Brr! Actually, it's kind of a neat thing to experience your nose freezing within seconds of walking outside, to feel Bethany's hard, frozen hair (that was turned so because it was wet before she braved the cold) and to see everything being held in some kind of thick frosty coating.

The only downside to such extreme cold is the difficulty that can occur in breathing, (maybe the lungs get frozen into one position? =) but even that is an experience in and of itself.

I'm used to snow. There was lots of it in PA last winter, but this is different. You know the frosty, snowy stuff that builds up inside of your freezer sometimes? Have you ever tried eating that before? I have. It's real dry (and not that great tasting ;) and leaves your throat feeling kind of scratchy. That's how the snow here tasted today when I ate some of it.

I don't think I will want to live here for the rest of my life or anything, but it's been kind of fun to go through some new things and to see the beauty of God's creation even when everything is frozen.

Ok, so maybe I have always tended towards being awed by things in creation (I still get made fun of for my amazement at the Nebraskan hills and for the fact that I haven't stopped enjoying them pretty much every weekend) but honestly, God's creativity is incredible! His order and dependability is seen through the seasons and no one but Him holds these things together.

Acts 7:49-50

"Heaven is my throne, and earth is my footstool: what house will ye build me? saith the Lord: or what is the place of my rest? Hath not my hand made all these things?"

Isn't God amazing?

All of these pics were taken in Nebraska over the weekend before a new snowfall, and what you're seeing on the barbed wires and car antennae, etc. isn't even snow….it's frost.

It was breathtaking.