i drove with my stepdad to Cedar Rapids today because he had to get his left eye re-lasered (yikes!) so i had about 3 hours to kill. deedee gave me excellent directions (i only took one wrong turn! that's a crapids record!!) and i hit up one of her favorite places for lunch, coffee, quiet time and even found the article about Stephen Colbert in Newsweek. i headed across the street for a birthday card for Eli (didn't get anything, the only ones i could tolerate were too girly) and then hit up the art gallery to see the Mauricio Lasansky printmaking exhibit.
i spent some time in isaiah 1 during my time at the blue strawberry. i love it when god calls us out. "Stop doing wrong, learn to do right! Seek justice, encourage the oppressed. Defend the cause of the fatherless, plead the case of the widow." (v. 16b-17) i love it that God knows there's no chance that i can just stop doing wrong and immediately start doing right, i love that he knows i'm going to have to learn it, and that he's patient with me. then verse 18 begins, "Come now, let us reason together." i love that he is reasonable. i love that he made us to think for ourselves but desires us to not think only of ourselves.
anywho. here are some snaps.
they were roasting coffee. it smelled so good
i l.o.v.e. print-making
his daughter
there was also an exhibit called "inspired by nature" it was paintings. it was boring.
cracked paint is cool though
i only like landscapes up close
then there was some roman stuff
i probably shouldn't be allowed in museums alone
i had to go pick bryan up after his zapping appointment. he was all bandaged up and on valium. the nurse was giving him directions and he said "i'm okay to drive, right?" and she was confused and angry. it was funny. so that was my day. had some good talking time with bryan (on the way there, not so much on the way home), and some good driving time in his giant black pimp suv. i parallel parked it on the left side on the first try. it was amazing, i rule at parallel parking. i promptly started calling people and bragging about it and then my phone battery died. i talked myself out of having a panic attack about having 3 hours of total alone time. that's probably why i got friendly with the statue.
thanks for sharing. that is cool stuff. i have to admit, even though i have read isaiah, i have yet to really get into it. i am so disappointed in the amount of time i have spent reading the Bible in which i really don't read it like it is the word of life. why don't i meditate on the word. seriously. mrs. h made a comment the other day on a sermon she had listened to. the guy said that we don't fall into sin. we usually have been meditating on it or something like it for a while. that has rung in my head since she said it. this is more than i was planning on saying, but then again when do i speak concisely?
ReplyDeletep.s. one of my favorite memories from iowa was when I had an assignment in which i had to go to the art musuem. i, after almost 4 years as a student had never been to the free museum. shame on me. it was so peaceful to walk around and look at the art. it was great. i thought i would be embarased by being by myself, but it was so great.
Yay for it being a phot journal of your life. I love it. And you take amazing pictures.
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