Trouble with Mud

 This is what our road looked like the last few days. I was simply trying to go to town to buy groceries and do errands on my day off and I got stuck in the road. I ran back barefoot (I didn't want to ruin my shoes with mud, crazy what you're mind thinks up when you freak out.) I got stuck about 1 kilometer (or 1/2 mile) from our house. I ran home and got David to get me unstuck. He did get me out...but then ended up getting really stuck.

 Stuck in the middle of the road in fact. I felt like I was in Africa, getting stuck on our own road.

 We actually had to get TOWED out of our own road, out of the middle of the road!! The snow melted so quickly and the frost came out because the weather suddenly went up to 20+*C (75-80*F). Our neighbors said that they've never seen the road get this bad. I sure hope not! I'm really hoping that this isn't an annual occasion.

 This is is my footprint. I came back in my "classy" winter boots.

 I stuck this stick down into the deep ruts and it still sunk to the lowest part where my fingers are...so it was 12-18 in. deep of mud.

I ended up eating my lunch while we waited for the tow truck.

If the earth were a golf ball...

 A few months ago David watched a teaching dvd by Louie Giglio. He was struck by the statement that "if the earth was the size of a golf ball, the sun would be the size of a 13 foot ball". Our great God just spoke this all into being! What an amazing Creator God we have!

Most people would hear this statement and think about it, imagine it for a few seconds and then forget about it. Not my creative husband. Instead he began to ponder..."could I make a 13 foot ball?" I'll admit I was rather doubtful when he decided to try it with just house wrap and tuck tape. He modeled it after a baseball and got our friend Dwane to come over for two days and they worked away to cut and tape and form a giant ball. I remember talking to my mom while they were working on it and telling her what they were up to. "Do you think it will work?" she asked me."I don't know, but somehow David always figures out a way to make his inventions work," I told her.

The time came that they could finally try it out. They started out in the basement just to see if the air would hold. They were like two little boys grinning from ear to ear as they watched the thing inflate with the shopvac. It reached the 8 ft. ceiling, so they decided to take it outside.

 I had no idea how big 13 feet around actually is!!

 David made it because he wanted to use it as an object lesson at March Break Camp to share how great our Creator God is, the same God that wants to be our Heavenly Father.

David is holding a golf ball in his hand to compare how big our earth is next to the sun. During Senior Camp we were able to let the kids actually go inside the ball. It is a pretty amazing experience. What a marvelous God we have!