Today

Esther and I did this:

FUN.

Missing India

I have been. Not too much...but enough.
Then I found this picture (number 14 on the roll) on the nytimes.com website. And it made me smile.

Just another day at the office

My Wednesday looked a little something like this:

Last Sunday...

I went for a run which has become a normal part of life lately. I passed this older lady who was sitting in a rocking chair on her front porch. As I ran by her, I noticed that she had something resting in her lap across her knees. It was straight and long and for some reason I thought, Is that a gun? And then my thoughts went something like this: Oh my goodness...She has a gun! I wonder what the gun is for. I bet some guy broke her granddaughter's heart and now she's just sitting and waiting for him to come back around. A few minutes later after I made my loop, I saw the lady get up, take her cane from her lap and walk across the front porch. It wasn't a gun. It was a cane. Boy did I have that one all wrong.
On my Wednesday run, I saw a Blackberry that someone had apparently chucked out their window. I bet it was that granddaughter's ex-boyfriend...

A Good One

This past week/weekend was a good one. Filled with baseball, friends, songs of praise and celebration, bluegrass, lemonade, bare feet in the water, one dirty, wet dog, a little bike ride, and a lot of late nights, the only word to describe it is: good.

It was also a week full of reflection on the willing sacrifice of Jesus Christ, the Savior of the World. I've been reading this book called, Knowing God by J.I. Packer and he has this chapter called "The Love of God" that I was reading through last week. One of my favorite excerpts from that chapter is this:

So the love of God who is spirit is no fitful, fluctuating thing, as human love is, nor is it a mere impotent longing for things that may never be; it is, rather a spontaneous determination of God's whole being in an attitude of benevolence and benefaction, an attitude freely chosen and firmly fixed.

I think that "firmly fixed" phrase at the end is my favorite. What freedom there is in the firmly fixed love of Christ!

Below are pictures and a little video from the past week. Enjoy.

Gooooooo Tigers!

Me and Sara

Me, David, and Sara

Good Friday with Passion in Alpharetta, GA.

Passion: Good Friday

This is just a little clip of the Good Friday celebration put on by the Passion people (Louie Gigglio, Chris Tomlin, Christy Nockels, Kristian Stanfill, Matt Redman). A huge thanks to David and Jimmy for inviting Krystal and me along!

Krystal and me at the Bluegrass concert

Bluegrass Under the Stars 2010!

Megan and Elizabeth

Doug, Shelley, and Doug's mom

Tiffany and Josh

My sister, Amelia, and me on Easter