City Heat

I forgot how the heat really feels. I had a distant memory after being on the island for so long, but as the song says 'It's all coming back to me now'. The 90's especially in the city are brutal. By the time we got back to the apartment Friday my jeans were sticking to my legs. I actually broke down and hailed a cab to take us the last 8 blocks.

This photo is the Ballfields Cafe in Central Park. We wandered over here for dinner last night and watched the baseball games on the fields across the path. Emma climbed on some of the giant boulders scattered through the park in lieu of the 2 giant playgrounds next to them. She hates structured fun for the most part and it was good to see her challenging herself to reach new heights. I refrained from climbing in order to maintain my dignity but my challenge came in church this morning at Morning Star NY. Keep in mind that our original plan was to move on yesterday to go to my mom's house in Maine but our friends invited us to stay for the weekend and so here I was in service this morning. From beginning to end in every part God spoke to me about keeping my eyes on Christ. Not what I think will work in my life, or what plan I can come up with to get what I think I need or want, but what He has for me. As we go forth with selling our house and into the future, these things do not make sense to us and yet we know that this is part of trust Him. We are constantly tempted in this life by many things but as I was reminded today God does not tempt anyone. It is against His nature. So if I am being tempted it is only my own desire and not from Him. I have strong emotions about what I think I want to do, but I can not trust and follow mere emotionalism. God has blessed us everywhere on this journey He has taken us on the last 2 years with friends (both in New England and on Lopez) who are supportive, who listen, who care about us and who have each given us (among many other things) encouragement, godly wisdom and prayer. Thank you all. As we set out for Maine tomorrow I go confident that I am in His hands no matter what. We are having a small thunderstorm right now and I hope it will drop the temperature before we head out later for our healthy NYC dinner of Hot Dogs in the park. (You have to do it once every time you visit!) So until tomorrow.....