Sick, Travel, and Fly Eagles Fly!

Well, I didn't post for a couple of weeks because I was sick (something going around they everyone is getting!), then I had to catch up from some days off, and then also work ahead a bit as I spent last week In Detroit visiting and helping my in-laws. So a busy couple of weeks!

So how nice it was to just sit and watch the Super Bowl last night, and especially as my Eagles completely dominated the Chiefs! Wow. It wasn't even close. Fly Eagles Fly! (And I loved rubbing that in to one of my catechumens who absolutely hates the Eagles!) 

A couple of pictures . . . 

Gorillas watching the Eagles win!

My daughter and her friends at the watch party at Concordia-Wisconsin.

This was their victory selfie. :-)

AND, to top off the good news, we're supposed to be getting some snow this week! Should be a good week. Busy, but good.

Sunrise

This picture is actually from December . . . a beautiful sunrise down my street as I was leaving for church one Sunday. And the picture doesn't do it justice - it was even more awesome than it looks!

 

March for Life

We had a good day at the March for Life yesterday. We had a good sized LCMS contingent. It was cold but not too cold. Though plans got a monkey wrench thrown in when Vice President JD Vance decided to come and the Secret Service ramped up security, our voice was again heard, that ALL life is valuable and precious and important to God. So even though our District Presidents (or their representatives) didn't get onto the rally stage to close the rally with the singing of the Doxology, we did get to close the Rose Banquet afterward with that and the singing of Abide with Me.

I didn't take any pictures, but here are some that were sent to me . . .

All the DPs with their matching coats.

(If you look closely you can see me in the midst of them. :-)

The Vice President giving remarks.

(Like all the bulletproof glass?)

President Harrison closing the rally.

Longing for the Jungle

My gorillas hangin' out in our Christmas cactus since they miss the jungle.

District Convention

Just got back from our triennial District Convention. Everything went well. Good to see lots of people and talk with them. Three of the four overtures we submitted for consideration passed as resolutions of the District; one did not. I was re-elected as Circuit Visitor, and Grace was re-elected as a member of the Board of Directors. 

I should have taken at least one of my new gorillas down to the Convention with me for a photo op there, but alas! - I thought of it too late, after I had already left. But come back to see where else they go and what else they do. I'll post a new picture tomorrow.

 

Mosaic

So, we took a trip for my birthday into DC to the Museum of the Bible. I had never been, but also they had a special exhibit - the Megiddo Mosaic. A few years back, they discovered one of the earliest Christian worship spaces to date while working to expand a prison. It dates to 230 AD. But what makes it significant is it has the earliest archaeological inscriptions of Jesus as God. This is the first time this mosaic has been outside Israel. 

Here we are outside the Museum of the Bible building.

This is what the structure might have looked like.

This is the mosaic tile. The next to the bottom line has the inscription "to our God Jesus Christ."

It is in Greek, and Jesus Christ is abbreviated, but you can see the common abbreviation there, for Iesu Christo.

This is a larger view of the Mosaic floor.

I'm not sure how long this exhibit will be here, but if you get a chance, go see it! The rest of the museum has some cool stuff, too. Too much for us to see in one day.

Puzzlin'

Who knew?

Gorillas like to do puzzles!