Meg Logan’s Blog

This morning I turned on the TV to catch the morning news, looking for some weather updates primarily… and what did I see??

“Controversial Museum Opens in Kentucky”

I knew right away what that museum was… do you? It’s the Creation Science Museum. Here is what the museum has to say about itself. I have been around the Answers In Genesis website for about a year now. I have read all kinds of interesting information. I believe pretty much everything I have read there. It lines up with a literal reading of the infallible Word of God, which settles things pretty easily in my mind.

So here is the thing… when AiG opened their new museum, guess what happened? People protested it! They picketed. They came in droves to hold up signs and protest the very concept that God created everything and that evolution (in the sense that things get BETTER from mutations). This just amazes me. I have never heard of Christians gathering around a “science” museum, and picketing their existance and science.

Wow, Creationism can really set some people off. Guess they prefer the concept that we were once monkeys, to the idea that an Almighty God chose to create us as we are. Personally, evolution is just too “out there” for me. I mean, how does something come from nothing unless God created it? How is it that this nothing, then exploded and started to expand and organize itself? How did something that was random, create a world with such order? Have you ever seen oranges or coconuts fall off the tree into a pattern? Maybe once! But not millions of times over, in the SAME pattern. It’s just too crazy for me to even consider.

Well. Go check out Answers in Genesis and see for yourselves.

The Old-Time Family
by Edgar A. Guest

It makes me smile to hear ‘em tell each other nowadays
The burdens they are bearing, with a child or two to raise.
Of course the cost of living has gone soaring to the sky
And our kids are wearing garments that my parents couldn’t buy.
Now my father wasn’t wealthy, but I never heard him squeal
Because eight of us were sitting at the table every meal.

People fancy they are martyrs if their children number three,
And four or five they reckon makes a large-sized family.
A dozen hungry youngsters at a table I have seen
And their daddy didn’t grumble when they licked the platter clean.
Oh, I wonder how these mothers and these fathers up-to-date
Would like the job of buying little shoes for seven or eight.

We were eight around the table in those happy days back then,
Eight that cleaned our plates of pot-poe and then passed them up again;
Eight that needed shoes and stockings, eight to wash and put to bed,
And with mighty little money in the purse, as I have said,
But with all the care we brought them, and through all the days of stress,
I never heard my father or my mother wish for less.

Well, We are renovating the house. We currently have about 15oo square feet in our living house, and about 500 square feet in an adjacent “apartment”. (The “apartment” has water but no toilet). When we moved here four years ago, the house was a MESS. We had no A/C, the heat was electric baseboard and it cost an arm and a leg and didn’t even keep the house warm, (so we turned it off instead!). We had yucky floors all covered with Old, dirty linoleum, and a poorly designed kitchen, with no dish washer, among other things. (Well my husband likes to say that HE had a dishwasher, aka, ME! lol)

In the first four years we upgraded the flooring to cheapo, self installed carpet, in the main living room, and a nice, cheapo professionally installed carpet in the Playroom. Plus we installed cheapo vinyl (which has held up remarkably well for the low price we paid!) in the kitchen. We were blessed with those things, plus a heat pump, which here in the South is plenty to both cool and heat our house for a very reasonable electric bill. The Lord blessed us with an automatic dishwasher in the third year, and a great deal on a new stove in the beginning of the fourth year. Last year hubby re-roofed the “apt” and had someone finish up the main house (as he was too busy to get to it!) The roofing required removing three layers of asphalt shingle, and replacing many boards.

This is what we have done in the last month and a half.
- gutted the “apartment” including removal of a chimney
- reinforced the roofing beams, and leveled the ceiling (”apt”)
- built walls in the “apt”
- installed sheet rock in the “apt”
- painted the “apt”
- painted the whole inside and outside of the house
- pressure washed the outside of the house
- got new vinyl siding on the “apt” (so now the buildings match)
- had all the windows re-glazed (we have old fashion windows), and the trim painted
- taken numerous trips to the dump, one such trip my husband did alone, and he loaded up and off loaded a total of 2.8 tons in one load!
- Removed all the old cabinets from the kitchen
- installed new cabinets
- installed new counters (almost done)
- killed weeds in the front gardens, trimmed back the bushes, and laid down some nice pine nugget mulch

And this is what is left to do:
- finish the kitchen: the counters, the backsplash tile work, the kitchen sink, the peninsula and counter, finish the vinyl flooring
- Finish the flooring throughout house: new carpet EVERYWHERE and in the “apt”
- freshen up the front yard, and plant something pretty in the flower pots
- seal the chimney
- replace a toilet seat
- Clean up all the dust from the remodel!

Ahh and then we shall be living in an amazing house! Right now, I am living in a construction zone. It is fascinating! My whole living room is taken over by boxed cabinets and such, my kitchen is only half way done, and the kids rooms are full of furniture that we will be moving to get the carpet down. It is interesting to say the least!

And what have I learned??

I have learned that God works on HIS timing. That contractors work on THEIR timing and that MY timing really doesn’t matter! LOL.
I have also learned that my husband is a genius! Not only can he do amazing things with a computer, but he can build walls, install cabinets, be a mason, eat practically nothing while the kitchen is a mess, deal with serious stress and missed “deadlines” and STILL smile. Not to mention that but he is seriously strong! The man can carry two sheets of 4×8 sheetrock ALONE, and can lift and install ceiling height 42 inch wide cabinets by himself! He is also amazing with math, determining the EXACT reason that a ceiling is sagging, and how to fix that, plus finding out what the slope is on the kitchen floor and making the cabinets level. HA, what a guy! Just an all around Renaissance man over here.

Mrs. Meg Logan

Questions posited by Larry at A Layman’s Thoughts

1. Where do you live? (Like in what city and state or province, etc.)
North Carolina for the time being.

2. What’s something you would really like to have?
A self sustaining farm life really close to (even shared with) my parents, and no debt including a mortgage, (and chickens on that farm!)

3. What would you say is one of your greatest strengths, gifts, or abilities?
Encouragement and Faith. The Lord has blessed me with powerful prayer, and I am grateful, but dumbfounded as to what I have to pray for that is so important. I can also sing (or so I am told).

4. What theological topic do you think is one of the most confusing or misunderstood?
Salvation by grace alone and the sovereignty of God.

5. If I were to agree to write about any topic you wanted, what would you have me write about?
More about your life growing up. Or about things you have learned walking with the Lord, to share your more personal life with us, that the Lord might be glorified. A list of things you would like to teach your grandkids.

Here is my five, if you want to answer them feel free to post in the comments, or to mention in the comments that you posted on your site.

1. What is your favorite scripture verse? and why?
2. What was the most difficult thing the Lord ever asked of you?
3. What is the greatest blessing you have ever received at the hand of the Lord?
4. What would you want to pass onto your children or grandchildren in the legacy of your life and why?
5. What was the most painful event of your life, and how did the Lord use it for good and glory?

Mrs. Meg Logan

Well, I just returned from visiting my mother and helping her around the house after her carpal tunnel surgery. While visiting her, my husband myself and the kiddos made a short trip to visit fellow blogger….

Yep you guessed it. MiNTheGap. It was great fun. He brought his lovely wife, and kiddos. We enjoyed a meal together at a Friendly’s restaurant. (Let me tell you, their chicken tenders are YUMMY.) It was a great adventure. My husband and I showed up thirty minutes late. (We tried to be on time, then we needed gas, and then the directions from google took us the long way.) Oh well. MinTheGap was very forgiving.

He’s just about exactly the same as you expect from reading his blog! Nice, talkative, full of ideas, and last but most important a follower of the Lord Jesus. His wife was a bit more quiet than I expected, but she too was very friendly. A wonderful mother, who obviously loves her children. Boy did we enjoy meeting them. I hope we get to do it again sometime.

Mrs. Meg Logan