Clay in our Creators Hands

Thinking on the analogy of God as a potter and we are the clay:

Each action in our life, each step we take allows the potter to sculpt us towards or away from his eternal designs.  The more we cooperate with His Hand shaping us (through grace and those around us).  How we deal with situations is shaping us for eternity.  Here on earth I believe we are most fulfilled engaging in activities that we are good at and that glorify God. The way we let God shape us will make us the vessel that best fits us.  And in heaven after we have been shaped and baked here on earth, we will be in the best form to serve him, shape to be good at what we will do in heaven and never bored with what we are doing for we are good at it and have been shaped for it.  However if we fight the Potter, we will end up as broken shards unfulfilled and failing to serve our intended purpose.

So here and now serve the Lord and let His Hands shape you into what you are best suited for for all eternity.

Cost of Discipleship: To become theology

Cost of Discipleship: To become theology

Free giveaway from gamer blog.

If you are into mini games, go check out http://thechaosmanifesto.blogspot.com/2011/10/100-post-by-me-and-give-away-from-me.html?spref=bl , he is trying to up his followers and giveaway stuff, always nice to see free stuff on the interwebs.

Baby Joren is Here

Baby Joren Eugene Grimstad (baby #6) arrived on 6/27 @ 5:49pm, he weighed in at 11lbs, 14oz and was 23 inches long a big boy.  Momma and baby are doing great.

Perfection

We are not perfect, but we are called to be Christ-like.

This is the conundrum of being Christian:
We are all sinners, Christ forgives us and calls us to do better, and loves us no matter what.  However, we cannot settle for where we are at.  So we must acknowledge our sinfulness accept that we fall but not give into staying fallen.  It is a battle between extremes: IF we strive for perfection on our own we will fail and dispair, if we settle for ourselves being fallen and not strive for more then we have given up.  We are called to a middle road of accepting our frailties and faults and Having God fill us with his perfection, for we are not enough, and cannot expect to be enough on our own.  But how do we find the middle road of accepting both our faults and God's grace.

Latest new teams painted AND ELFBALL DEMO

Elfball Demo @ area51 gaming store in grapevine texas June 4 @ 11:00am to 3:00pm

Here are my newly painted teams:

These first guys are my Impact! Razorbacks, they were a gift from some good friends ;),  I like the makeup of the team, but they were suprizingly tough to paint.  Got them knocked out in 3 nights, pretty quick and dirty painting.  I am happy with the results.

These Guys below are my Gnolls, the first team I bought for Elfball and one of my first purchases from Impact! miniatures ever.  Really happy to finally have them painted, what is even cooler though is that my wife painted them for me (I just put the static grass on the bases and numberd them).  Can't wait to play with this team.  Tangible love and getting to show how cool my wife is while playing Elfball, can't beat that!

Couple of other painted teams

Here are two more of my painted teams.  The lizardman team is the first I ever painted completely and the Night elves are a bit of a rush job but fun anyway.