April 12, 2012
by Sus
in Family News, Jenn
Tags: family life, pictures, road trips, students, thoughts, university
As you know, Jenn’s in Germany. The semesters are different than in the States, so she’ll be taking classes (in German) starting Monday and through July. We’re waiting to hear what classes she’ll be taking. I’m sure she’ll appreciate your prayers for her to be safe and healthy and to do well in her studies.
She had a wonderful few weeks as an intern at The Art Factory in Kandern, Germany. She made some new friends, hiked, and made a trip into Basel, Switzerland. She’s now in Freiburg, Germany, which is a university town in the Black Forest region. Many universities are located there. Again, she’s hiking and making new friends. They’re all hoping to make some weekend trips together.
Her past two weeks, she’s been busy with registration and orientation for the international students. This picture is from a recent hike (with Jenn in the center, and her two fellow students from Stetson, and some of their new friends from Canada and Serbia).
I’ll write about her time in Germany once in a while, but you can follow her new blog directly; she’s sharing photos and stories regularly at the brightest and the darkest. Jenn’s already written some great posts, like her adventures this past weekend, including Easter Mass in the cathedral, which you’ll enjoy reading about. In the upper right corner of Jenn’s blog, you can subscribe with your email address to receive a notice when she writes something new. She’d love to have you join her travels.
October 6, 2011
by familynews
in The Sower: Helping You Share Your Faith
Tags: Bible quotes, I-77, I-80, Ohio, Prayer, things to do, thoughts, travel
“My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me and to finish His work”, Jesus told them. “Don’t you say, ‘There are still four more months, then comes the harvest?’ Listen to what I’m telling you: Open your eyes and look at the fields, for they are ready for harvest.” ~ John 4:34-35
I appreciate these thoughts from my friend, Janey:
How long does a harvest last? It’s not very long. Usually, when the fruit is ripe, a farmer has to hurry to get the product out of the fields before it starts falling to the ground to rot. There is urgency to a harvest time because there is a definite time when the opportunity to harvest will be lost. Because of this, the farmer suspends all activities and does little else until the harvest is collected. He spends hours on the field, only stopping for brief periods to eat and sleep. When the harvest is too great for one man to bring it all in he calls other farmers to help with his harvest. His focus is on the harvest and will do whatever is necessary to reap what he has sowed.
What about a spiritual harvest? The same principles of a natural harvest can be applied to a spiritual harvest. There will be a definite time when it is too late to harvest souls resulting in the souls not being harvested lost for all eternity, separated from God’s love and forgiveness. The fields will not remain ripe indefinitely. In order to have an abundant harvest, there is urgency for the workers to focus on little else other than the harvest. They do not concern themselves with anything else, except what it takes to bring in the harvest.
God’s Spiritual harvest is immediate too. A farmer first sows the seed, waits four months for it to grow and then harvests the fruit. There is a time before the fruit is ready to be harvested. However, God’s Spiritual harvest is often immediate. You sow the seed, and God causes the field to be ripe and ready for harvesting. What a great God He is!
NOTE: Sus took this photo of the Hale Farm in northeast Ohio many years ago.
September 11, 2011
by Sus
in The Sower: Helping You Share Your Faith
Tags: aquarium, humor, quotes, thoughts, world news
“We have drifted away from being fishers of men to being keepers of the aquarium.”
~ attributed to Paul Harvey
NOTE: We took this photo at Sea World last summer.
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