This summer went by so fast but we are just starting our travels in September.

Highlights include spending time with friends at church, increased time swimming and hosting parties. One of my wife’s spiritual gifts is hosting people. I think we were able to exercise these spiritual giftings this summer. In the process we were able to spend inordinate amount of time visiting people and having them over at our house.

Relationship building has been one of our weak points since having kids, but with the past few months we have been able to do just that.

What else is new? We have continued our Sonship bi-weekly meetings. This has been a blessing, the only thing I hope to have is more frequency in the meetings. Since one week is dedicated to listening to the message and one week is to go over questions, that means we go through the book pretty slowly. But in any case it has been a blessing to us to share with our friends and co-laborers in the gospel.

I am re-learning the “How People Change” model of spiritual growth/sanctification. As I meet up with people throughout the week, I see more and more people struggling in the HEAT of God’s sun and the COOLNESS of his rain of bless. We respond with the THORNS and sinful response. Instead we are called to turn to Christ in FAITH, to turn to the CROSS. So that we can respond with LOVE and bear much FRUIT.

Oh LORD, help us to be FRUIT TREES rooted in the CROSS. Turn our eyes, our hearts , our ears, our minds to Christ. For it is only in Jesus that we find LIFE.

Amen.