If you’re out and about Windsor, you’ll probably find me at King Soopers (the local grocery store) grabbing thousands of baby food jars off the shelf, buying balloons for my “bawoon-adoring” children, or stocking up on size 4 diapers.  Also, check in the healthy dairy section and you may happen to find me buying Horizon Whole Milk Yogurt by the cartful.  Little Avy Rose alone (she’s only 7 months old) eats four or five bowls of the stuff a day.  If you are what you eat, then the Ludy kiddos are Horizon yogurt.

Whenever I can, I like to steal away and kiss Leslie, squeeze one of my kiddos, or just enjoy the Presence of my King.

Right now, I’m reading a really old tattered book (I love those kind - and I really like to smell the yellowed pages) named A Retrospect by Hudson Taylor.

Tea or coffee? (in case you want to treat the staff)

Medium iced skinny decaf chai.  This order wouldn’t work at Starbucks (where I’d be forced to say “grande”, so it’s only the really good coffee shops that can pull it off.)

A binkie in a baby’s mouth and diapered bum bums always make me smile. 

When I was 8, I thought I was going to be an inventor.  I drew a picture of a solar powered car that I was sure would run and I designed a hundred story mansion with a swimming pool in the middle that stretched all the way from floor fifteen to floor eighty-five.  Oh, what my life could have been if I had only persevered down that path.

Something I’m most excited about for you as a student is... being in an environment that protects and sponsors daily intimate communion with the King of Kings.  There is truly nothing more beautiful and precious than a set-apart season with Jesus Christ to prepare the soul for the ever-poured out life.

STAFF QUESTIONS FROM THE BLOG:

[March 12, 2010]

What is one of your favorite hymns or spiritual songs?

Be Thou My Vision.  I remember writing out a 15-20 page essay seventeen years ago that outlined my audacious vision for, what I termed back then, "Men of Honor"  (now known as  Ellerslie).  The very first words I wrote in that memorable essay were the words . . .

Be Thou my vision, oh Lord of my heart

Nought be all else to me, save that Thou art

It's not only a beautiful and powerful song, but it holds a very significant place in my heart, and a very significant place in this ministry work.

[February 26, 2010]

What has been a significant verse for you this past month?

Hebrews 7:21-28  

I have been deeply impacted by the idea of Jesus as my High Priest.  The High Priest of Israel was the one to stand in the gap for the people.  In a very real sense, he was the rescuer, or the savior of the people.  Obviously, this was a foreshadow of the Great Rescuer to come - Jesus Christ.  And as it says in verse 25, "He (Jesus) is able to save to the uttermost those who draw near to God through Him, since He always lives to make intercession for them."  Intercession is manly stuff, and there is no one better at it than our Jesus.