back from the hollers

This past weekend we headed back to the hollers of Eastern Kentucky. Saturday was Jon's 5th year college reunion at Kentucky Mountain Bible College, so we spent most of the day with some of his good college friends. The rest of the weekend we spent at Oakdale. Jon and I worked at Oakdale before we went to Africa. We always love going there. Jon spoke at Oakdale's baccalaureate service on Sunday morning. Jon used this quote from G.K. Chesterton in his message:

A child kicks its legs rhythmically through excess, not absence, of life. Because children have abounding vitality, because they are in spirit fierce and free, therefore they want things repeated and unchanged. They always say, "Do it again"; and the grown-up person does it again until he is nearly dead. For grown-up people are not strong enough to exult in monotony. But perhaps God is strong enough... It is possible that God says every morning, "Do it again," to the sun; and every evening, "Do it again," to the moon. It may not be automatic necessity that makes all daisies alike: it may be that God makes every daisy separately, but has never got tired of making them. It may be that He has the eternal appetite of infancy; for we have sinned and grown old, and our Father is younger than we.

Almost all the parents laughed at Oakdale. They know what it feels like to have your child say "do it again, do it again" until you are about to pass out. I thought I would post a few pictures of Kiah and Jacob in the things that they love to "do again."

Kiah spent all morning jumping from the couch
onto this ball and flying across the living room.

Jacob eats, sleeps and breathes trains. He
never gets tired of playing with them. He loves
to watch them go around and around.