Thorburn Family

My laptop crashed and it appears to be unsalvagable.   It was a Mac, so I didn’t need to be backing it up, right? (haha to me).   I have lost my calendar for the last 4 years, my address book (both email and snail  mail), all contact information, all recipes, all menus and schedules, tons of important documents and records, and more.

SO, the moral of this story is: back it up, even if it is a Mac.   The entire time I have owned a Mac I have never had trouble.. it doesn’t need its nose wiped every 5 minutes like a PC.    You’ll never convince me that PC’s are better, even though it seems my Mac has died in a blaze of sudden ugliness.   Oh well.

As a result of this disaster, that I need all your contact info again.  If you are reading this, send me your address, snail mail and email, and whatever contact info you want me to have.  Oh, and if we have an appointment together, you should pop me an email so I can record it.   Send it to anna@thorburnfamily.com.  I will get it eventually.

Meanwhile, a friend of ours will try very hard to retreive some of my data.  I have no way to get a new computer right now so I will be hit or miss online for a while.  I have to use Rich’s laptop or business computer and they are a royal pain & more time consuming than using a Mac, so it won’t be often. 

 Boo hoo for me!

 Lydia turned 16 on November 29th, and that day we also had a fondue party for her!Here is the “main dish” table as we were setting it up:Even with dessert fondues in the mix, everyone still had room for cake:All the kids together!  A lively, funny, super friendly & sweet bunch.  I like them!  :-DCan’t help but put a silly picture of our boys in there!We are really thankful that we have had Lydia for 16 years.  Nobody on earth knows what the next day holds.  We have enjoyed our precious daughter every day of her life!

For those whose lives have been bought w/the price of Christ’s blood, there is the promise that he forever after deals with us only according to his mercy.  The debt of our sin against a holy God has been paid by Christ.  We appear before him clothed in the righteousness of His Son, our filthy sins set away as far as the east is from the west.  Born again!   This holy God never deals with us punitively, because He treated Christ punitively–for our sins–instead.   Therefore, all difficulty that comes the way of the believer is assuredly for our good, from the hand of a gracious, kind, loving Father.  The unbeliever cannot claim this truth.  John 3:36 says, “He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life; and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abides on him.”  If you don’t know this Christ, seek Him today.  Ask us!   Believers, consider this encouragement from JC Ryle:

“He who did not spare His own Son but gave Him up for us all, how will He not also with Him graciously give us all things?”   Romans 8:32

If God has given His Son to die for us, let us beware of doubting His kindness and love in any painful providence of daily life.  Let us never allow ourselves to think hard thoughts of God.  Let us never suppose that He can give us anything that is not really for our good.Let us see in every sorrow and trouble of our earthly pilgrimage-the hand of Him who gave Christ to die for our sins.  That hand can never smite us except in love!  He who gave His Son to die for our sins will never withhold anything from us that is really for our good.  Let us lean back on this thought and be content.  Let us say to ourselves in the darkest hour of trial, “This also is ordered by Him who gave Christ to die for my sins.  It cannot be wrong!  It is done in love!  It must be well!”JC Ryle