on visitors, web searches, and blogs

Today marks the 26th anniversary of Jesus interrupting my existence! I wrote about it briefly in a conversant life blog here.

Curiously, today our family received visitors from a group seeking to convert us to their faith. I was upstairs preparing for a radio interview when I saw Barry talking with a couple further down the driveway.

Barry relayed later that our precious eldest eyed them cautiously for a few minutes then said without any malice (or self-editing) in his heart, "Excuse me. I think it's rude to just show up and talk like this when you weren't invited."

Not sure we've ever used the word "evangelism" in conversation with Jonathan...but we have emphasized the words "respect" and "love" when discussing what it means to share faith...(Seems like he was listening. )

Then I was searching for an image to post with the conversantlife.com blog and typed in "art + salvation." Do you know what it pulled up? Nope, not a cross. Dozens of images from Terminator.

So...

I'll keep in mind the image of what the cross suddenly meant to me back on June 26th, 1983.
I'll keep in mind what the cross means today to my honest children.
And I'll keep in mind what the cross will mean on the day this home vanishes and another appears.