Pennsylvania Part 1

April 11, 2011

I didn’t know that PA was so beautiful. We were blessed to be smack-dab in the middle of the state and enjoying the Appalachian countryside for our spring break. It was on the rainy side, but we played outside anyway, roaming through the forests, pushing down old trees. I actually have 137 pictures from the […]

Time for a change of lenses

March 16, 2011

My weeks seem defined by the amount of homework. This week, for example, has 4 tests and 8 homework assignments. I realized that it’s become a habit as of late to see my week through the lens of homework. So, instead I tried to look at it through a lens which I wore a bit […]

Refunds, Rewards and Rescue

March 1, 2011

I know, I should quit with the alliterated titles, but titling blog posts usually takes me 20 minutes if my gears are sticky. I have to say, I’m excited about all I’ve been exposed to and learned in the past week or so. We had the privilege to volunteer at the Detroit Rescue Mission on […]

Milkshakes, Minor Prophets, and Miracles

February 18, 2011

Well, as you might have guessed, we’re still wading through plenty of homework, moving into the Life of Christ (finally, the New Testament!), finishing up some of the exilic and post-exilic prophets (finally, they are smaller than Jeremiah!), and diving into Anthropology/Hamartiology (which is fancy theological terms for the study of man and sin). If […]

Maher-shalal-hash-baz?

February 5, 2011

Maher-shalal-hash-baz? Well, it most certainly wasn’t voted as one of the top ten boy names this year, but in the 6th century BC, it was top of the charts, along with Shear-Jashub–and for girls names (about fifty years earlier), it was Gomer. Well, as you might have guessed, we’re smackdab in the middle of our […]

You can frown, or you can make a marshmallowy smile

February 1, 2011

Things could get dreary here. Michigan is wintery for such a long part of the year. I hated Michigan winters when I left a few years ago. That’s just the honest truth. Colorado’s winters were easy in comparison. I think the sunshine played a huge part of it–it shines almost every day of the year […]

Zesty Adventure All Around

January 17, 2011

So, if I had to use a few words to describe last year, they might include, transitions, transient, packed, improvisation, and stretching. If the amount I’d been stretched as a person could be measured in actual inches, I’d probably have grown a foot or so. I actually could have guessed that 2010 was going to […]

New Lessons

January 13, 2011

Our break is only a few days away from being over. The first two weeks we spent in California with Payton’s family and friends. I can truly say that time spent with family was lovely, and at the same time, it was quite a rough trip. A childhood friend of Payton’s brother died unexpectedly, 6 […]

When will theology grip your soul?

December 17, 2010

I was listening to a sermon on the Loving Discipline of God (from John MacArthur). Actually, this was the first sermon I’ve listened to (apart from church) this semester. I’ve been packing in too much info, but as I was sewing I decided to listen because I’d been wondering about the topic. This really summed […]

It’s beginning to look a lot like Tuesday

December 14, 2010

It happens to be Tuesday, but this Tuesday is different. This is the last Tuesday of the semester! I’ve had a few days where a blog post might have been possible, but I totally chose to sew rather than write. God has been at work in my heart this past few weeks. My dad has […]