Nursery update

Wow, Jan Kwiatkowski did a great job making the window treatments, breast feeding screening, and the paintings for the nursery. The room should provide an environment that welcomes volunteers and families who will want to leave their children in their care. It should open back up next week after I complete the flooring.

This morning I put down the rubber flooring (babies have a tendency to fall for some reason). I ran into uneven corners in the room and the gate has to be raised to get the rubber squares under the gate. So why do simple jobs have to be so hard? I have to go back to Sam's to get more flooring (I should have measured first).

It made me think of life. King David, the apple of God's eye (Psalm 17), was annointed King of Israel, but the current King, King Saul had to die for him to take the throne. He literally ran for years and waited for this to take place. He faced a corner when he sinned with Bathsheba, tried to cover it up but her husband had integrity, then David had her husband killed, not so simple.

And what about Joseph was thrown into a pit, sold into slavery, put into prison for doing the right thing and was then eventually restored to power.

So we are never promised a simple life. We are promised eternal life.

http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?book_id=63&chapter=1&verse=1&end_verse=3&version=31&context=context