Minimalist Day 3 and some thought on grace... random

Well I'm working on Minimalist Day 3... Yesterday's master bedroom project was so big, I am doing something a little more easy today. I have actually spent my day ripping CDs to my computer so that I can store the CDs in a box or something- NOT in my closet!

I also spent some of the day taking pictures of Peter's old college notes.... mindless and strange! We have notebooks full of notes that have been shipped across the ocean!! So I looked up an automatic feed scanner...300-500 dollars! So I took pictures of each page instead. I poor man's trick. It works great. It doesn't take that long either!

So far I have gotten rid of two CD cases and one notebook! Yay.

I was listening to my MP3 player as I was walk/jogging and I heard this song. It is a rock version of Come Let Us Adore Him. I don't know the artist... sorry!

It says, "Come let us adore Him! He has come down to this barren land, and all I have have to give Him is adoration!

There is a line that says, "He raises a wrinkled hand through the dust and the flies, wrapped in rags like we are...."

FLIES... yuck. I HATE, HATE, HATE flies. When it gets cold here they try desperately to get in the house so they won't die outside. I swat hourly to keep up with their disgusting numbers!

We live in a neighborhood that has WAY WAY more cattle, goats, and sheep than cars (hence the flies!) They are NOT clean. They are NOT like a picture book. As we walk past them on the way to the store they are covered in flies, poop, and mud. They are not cute! (ok sometimes like in Spring when all the baby animals are born!) :)

Anyway, the words "through the dust and the flies," really got to me. There was the Son of God, rolled up and put in a food bin for animals. He humbled himself down to an infant covered with flies among yucky animals.

Grace beyond grace. It is to amazing that God decided to do that for us.

Peter get a good laugh out of hearing me yell the lyrics to music while I treadmill with my earphones on. When I come out he just smirks and chuckles. One of the benefits of running IN the house, I can scream the words without looking like a total freak. Oh ya, except for my dear family. My kids will think it's normal to do that. So if you see them running and scream/singing (which many of you have) you'll know why!