Over the weekend, Funnel and I went to FamilyLife’s “Weekend to Remember” marriage conference, downtown at The Columbus. His parents had gone a couple of times and really enjoyed it and they recommended it to us.
I was looking forward to it, but when I looked at the schedule for the weekend, it looked exhausting and [...]

First snow of the year today.  It took me about an hour and a half to get to work — traffic was at a crawl, and sometimes a standstill, but it was nice, in a way.  It was really quiet and I got to listen to Turning Point in full, eat my clementine and watch the snow [...]

God, thank-you for remembering me when I forget you. Thank-you for being faithful to me when I turn my back on you. Thank-you for defending me when I fail to stand up for you. Thank-you for loving me when I’m too tired to love you back. Thank-you for being my friend when I don’t give [...]

This past week has been a hard one for me. It was a bunch of small things — nothing tragic or life-changing or even a big deal to me now. It just was very overwhelming and dramatic to me at the moment. I’ll share one part of it with you — my [...]

2006 was lovely.
I got engaged on January 7th to my best friend.
Funnel graduated college in May.
I graduated college in June.
We started our first “real” jobs in August.
I married my Funnel on October 28th.
We moved into our very own place in Reynoldsburg.
We’ve found a good, solid church where we have family and friends to help grow [...]

Yesterday, as I was packing up my car to leave Massillon and come back to Columbus for Thanksgiving with the Fredericks, my dad gave me a sermon series to listen to, called “Too Small to Ignore” from RiverTree.  “It’s good,” he said, “It’s about kids.”
I was thinking, kids… parenting…. hmm… I guess this might come in [...]

Lately, I have been praying that God will show me an example of what a Christian really is, what a Christian life looks like.  I was thinking that He would respond to me with a real, live, breathing person, but perhaps this quote I came across in Greg Nettle’s blog is His answer:
“When someone strips a man of [...]

He has made everything beautiful in its time.

#104. When starting out, don’t worry about not having enough money. Limited funds are a blessing, not a curse. Nothing encourages creative thinking in quite the same way.
— Life’s Little Instruction Book.
I’ll be honest… it’s stressing me out a little bit, but I know I’ll find a job soon. Now is an appropriate time for [...]

Today as I was walking away from my apartment, a bird dropped out of the sky and fell at my feet. It was one of the most surreal things that has ever happened to me. It was alive and since it was such a small little bird, I think it must have been a baby [...]