StewBlogs: a proud fatherly moment

One day I looked up from my reading to see my 16 month old son bouldering the water pipe route on the wall of our storage room.  I think he's ready for his first pair of climbing shoes.

StewBlogs: a word to the wise woman

It came to my attention a couple of days ago just how good it feels to have your wife genuinely appreciate your fixing ability. The company's LandRover was dripping oil in our driveway. I found the sockets and tightened the nut on the oil pan and it stopped dripping. She was SOOO genuinely impressed with me and it felt really good. I was quite frankly surprised that she was impressed and maybe you are too, but the point is that she celebrated me and expressed genuine appreciation for what I had done as simple as it was.

So, a word to the wise woman out there: celebrate your husband's work, be impressed. He will feel loved and respected.

StewBlogs: Poopy Napper

Micah has been regularly pooping shortly after he goes down for his afternoon nap. Then he wakes up and cries until we sniff out the problem. Today when he woke up poopy I asked him if this was his ploy to get out of nap time and he gave me a great big grin as if to say, "I've been found out!"
Bear, our guard dog (a necessary evil) had also been barking right as Micah awoke. I thought maybe he'd scared the crap out of Micah... but then I remembered this had happened several times before!

StewBlogs: Bon Courage Mes Amis

This is making my wife really happy. We officially have a 'family blog'. You'd have thought the Canucks won the Stanley Cup. Ok, now for the real goods:

Over the last several years I have diligently been striking any and all phrases pertaining to luck from my vocabulary. The reason for this is that I just don't believe in luck and random chance... the Bible doesn't let me. In the past I have said things to my friends like, "I don't like theology". My wife almost didn't marry me because I said this to her. The truth of the matter is that I don't like theology that doesn't impact the life of the theologian. You can have the most polished theological classroom perspective but if your life is not changed by who you know God to be then your theology sucks. There I said it, now you have to deal with it. Don't get angry at me, cause so far my theology sucks too, but lets work on it together OK?
So, I'm changing my speech to reflect my theology. God is sovereign over all things. Proverbs 16:33 teaches us that the dice fall according to God's direction. Some people are going to have a hard time with this, but my suggestion is read the Bible cover to cover and observe God with his metaphorical fingers in every part of the story working it according to his plan. Good and evil, disaster and blessing, life and death, the rise and fall of nations, the suffering of righteous men at the hands of the wicked, the affliction of those handicapped by physical disability, the atonement for our sin by the sinless Son of God, it is inescapable.
Now the exciting part is that being here in a French speaking context has given me a wonderful replacement for such phrases as "Good luck!". In keeping with the mandate of Joshua 1:9 and Paul's prayer in Ephesians 6:19 : "Bon courage mes amis!"

I've decided to share.

I've made a few changes to my site, because--drumroll please!--Stewart will now be joining me occasionally on my blog!

StewBlogs will be debuting shortly!

Please leave a comment if you have any trouble with the new layout.  I'd love to get some feedback.