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 [...]

This website is amazing. It has all the Bible stories, told with Legos….
The Flood…

Jesus’ Baptism…

Some of them are pretty funny.

(( The Law ones are especially funny, but mostly too inappropriate to post here.))

And then — just between you and me —
I take a swallow of cold tea
and in the manner of the ancient Chinese
pick up my pen
and write down that bird I hear outside,
the one that sings,
pauses,
then sings again.
— In the Room of a Thousand Miles. Billy Collins.
I am reading a poetry book by Billy Collins called, [...]

Photo of the day:

I took this after kickboxing class. I was going to use my friend Stephen’s photo of the day, but it wouldn’t really count since he took it.
Things I wrote down from Bible Study tonight at Jersey:
# “Compassion without action is hypocracy” — Horace
# “Everytime I have aired on the side of grace, [...]