January 26 SunFun
Praises and Prayers
It took me half the month of January to finish December, so I feel like the rest of the month went pretty quickly, especially with 3 days of e-learning at the end of the month from a bunch of COOOOOOLD weather and snow. It didn’t help that I got a bad case of food poisoning right before being snowed in, adding to the restlessness. But the cat has caught multiple mice in our house and my parents house, and tales will be told of her greatness in Winzeler stories for many, many years. Jessica started learning how to play the ukulele, and I’ve got a tin whistle, so we will see how far we get with our New Years Resolutions.
Very greatful for fun times with the Millers and for Jasper’s birthday, as well as the Ladies retreat at church. We are so blessed to have such a great church community. Sofia has started the “Keeper of the Lost Cities” books, and all this snow has us diving into a record January for reading. Did you know that when you print out the recipt for the books you get from the Library, it tells you how much money you’ve saved, getting books from them rather than buying them? My current amount is over $50,000, and that is ABSOLUTELY CORRECT. What does it mean to be married for 60 years?? So grateful to be able to celebrate with Uncle Loren and Aunt Carol!
Interweb Reads:
Me stuff: I am really proud of some changes/updates I did on my website, organizing the blogs to better reflect the things I am writing about:). Here are the new posts: The Missionary Kids quotes, Check the Box Resources (updated for 2026!), The gift of Imprecation, The point, and please check out the freebies page, because it is updated with new things! I am especially proud of the the new LIFT for LENT that I did for World Renewal Missionaries.
Immigration things: Slow Theolgy when ICE is in Town (Rachel Pieh Jones), (this one got 111 comments on it when I posted it to my Facebook:) Justice, Order, and Human Dignity (Relevant), The church should be leading the Immigrant Conversation. Here’s how. (Relevant), King’s call for Prayer, Fasting, and medication will prepare you for Protest—and Persecution (Nicola A Menzie), Pull up a chair: Americans are changing their mind about ICE (Brittani Farington), In a tense Minnesota, Christians help Immigrant Neighbors (Christianity Today), Hope comes through Spanakopita (Marilyn R. Gardner)
Missionary stuff: The Gospel speaks to every culture (A Life Overseas)
Other stuff: Trust the invisible to make the impossible possible (Courtney Martin)