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Month: May 2009

Month: May 2009

Long weekend in Lake Providence & a question for you.

Thought I would drop an update. We are heading to Lake Providence for a wedding this weekend. We will be the ones with a U-Hail trailor, truck, and a babyseat. Should be a fun drive. Lots of thoughts for Ginny and I swirling around lately. I expect these thoughts could give birth to some blog posts soon. We recently have been challenged in some great ways to live out what we profess. We’re interested to see where we are led by way of these thoughts. Should be fun. If this all sounds cryptic. Well, it is. I still have not…

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Weekly Interrogative

MM: The vacations have been great. I highly recommend everyone taking a break and getting away with the ones you love. There will always be excuses not to. But I intend it to be high priority around the Mooney house. So, I have a question for you. We’ll try to start posting these on Wednesdays so you can know when one is coming. Today’s question may seem to have bad timing, but I assure you it is purposeful. I waited until after all the election fireworks to ask it: What do you think a Christian’s role in politics should be?…

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the beach

last week we went on our first ever family vacation. matt, hazel & i loaded up with two other families & drove to florida to spend a few days. it was spectacular…& with 6 adults & 6 kids a bit of beautiful chaos as well. friends, sun, sand, ocean, pool, bikes, games, laughter, the smell of sunscreen & sweat & the feel of the sea breeze. it was a great vacation. yet, as with everything in our lives from here on out, there is the ache of missing eliot. the ache ebbs & flows with the days & seasons. this…

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Surprise

Do you see it? It’s there in my backyard. Can you see? Maybe I’m the only one, but I see it. Oh, it is so clear. There, filling my backyard & my home last weekend…Glory. The face, touch, words, presence of a very real God, alive & bursting forth from His people. This may seem like a dramatic description of my friends & of a simple gathering, but it is a very true description. Monday was my half birthday. A strange thing to note, but when Eliot went home to be with Jesus it was October 27th, my actual birthday….

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Long weekend in Lake Providence & a question for you.

By Matt Mooney | May 21, 2009

Thought I would drop an update. We are heading to Lake Providence for a wedding this weekend. We will be the ones with a U-Hail trailor, truck, and a babyseat. Should be a fun drive. Lots of thoughts for Ginny and I swirling around lately. I expect these thoughts could give birth to some blog…

Weekly Interrogative

By Matt Mooney | May 14, 2009

MM: The vacations have been great. I highly recommend everyone taking a break and getting away with the ones you love. There will always be excuses not to. But I intend it to be high priority around the Mooney house. So, I have a question for you. We’ll try to start posting these on Wednesdays…

the beach

By Matt Mooney | May 13, 2009

last week we went on our first ever family vacation. matt, hazel & i loaded up with two other families & drove to florida to spend a few days. it was spectacular…& with 6 adults & 6 kids a bit of beautiful chaos as well. friends, sun, sand, ocean, pool, bikes, games, laughter, the smell…

Surprise

By Matt Mooney | May 2, 2009

Do you see it? It’s there in my backyard. Can you see? Maybe I’m the only one, but I see it. Oh, it is so clear. There, filling my backyard & my home last weekend…Glory. The face, touch, words, presence of a very real God, alive & bursting forth from His people. This may seem…