a meme

i am participating in an interviewing game that began with the immoral matriarch, but i stumbled upon it on my friend's blog citystreams.


1. Describe your favorite outfit. Where did you wear it last?

right now, since we are on the tail end of winter: jeans or cords (preferably owned by me for at least 5 years), 3/4 length sleeve solid shirt, button or zip-up sweater, smartwool striped socks,keen maryjanes, freshwater pearl dangly earrings from adam, some sort of bracelet so i can remember which side i nursed on last. i wear this outfit pretty much every day (as pictured).

2. What theological puzzle have you been chewing on lately? Which way are you leaning on it?

we are doing a fabulous study on romans by tim keller in our ladies Bible study and we just finished all the election/adoption stuff in chapters 10-12. i go to a presbyterian church now for the first time in my life. we love our church, but many people think presbyterians only believe in predestination and the words "calvinism" and "reformed" seem to make some angry. i was wading through the scripture using adam's esv study Bible (which is fantastic by the way) and read this in the notes:

"On the one hand, God predestines some to be saved. On the other hand, God still longs for all to be saved (1Tim 2:4, Ezek 33:11). Though it may seem impossible to understand how both of these statements are true, the Bible teaches both, and one should not use either truth to deny the other. (Eph 1:3,4,5,6,11)"

i love this because it gives me permission to not fully understand the mind of God. i never will. what may seem like a paradox to me works in perfect harmony and unity in the unsearchable person of God.

3. Of all your posts on your blog, which was your favorite? Why?

probably this one because i started this blog a while back to help me process life. marit's hip dysplasia has been one of those things that i have processed here...it's been really hard at times, but wonderful to see God's grace in it as well as we have been shaped as parents and watched God work in our family. also, it's one of those times when we got a sneak peak (at least that's what it feels like) of the bigger picture of all things working together to bring God glory and our good...

4. Do you have any secret indulgences? Do tell!

if i had a secret indulgence (and i don't think i really do), i would not share it on my public blog! i really enjoy chocolate and peanut butter together. it doesn't matter if it is as simple as a chocolate graham cracker with peanut-butter on it or as fancy as gourmet peanut-butter pie. it is just the best period. i hate that the peanut has endured so much bad press lately!

5. What was your favorite bedtime story when you were a little girl?

i loved, loved, loved it when my dad would read the borrowers series to us. they were so hilarious-stories about this itsy bitsy family that lived in a house of normal sized folks. the borrowers made a home with all the random things the normal people always seemed to lose: socks, paperclips, rubber bands, a shoe would make a perfect bed for a borrower etc. these books were so clever and had the best illustrations. i hope i can read them to my kids someday...


if you comment, i will email you 5 of your own personalized interview questions that you can answer on your own blog and continue the fun by interviewing your readers as well!