THE BEAR ATE THE MONKEY!!!

So tonight I was in the car with my wife and two girls. Ella my four year old says these phrases from the backseat: Ella: Mommy and Daddy you want to hear a joke? Me: Sure baby…let me hear it. Ella: The Bear Ate The Monkey!!! AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA Me and My Wife: ….ummm…what? Fast forward to [...]

CAMERON

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NEW NIKON D300 PICS

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Just got my new Nikon D300 yesterday and my trusty friend Cal sat in for me for a few test pics.

“THE 4:42″

My eyes popped open early. It is still and quiet. The only noise I hear is the breathing of my wife and a low hum from the ceiling fan. I lay in wait and wonder why I am awake so early. For a moment…Nothing! Then my two year old lets out a whimper, then a [...]

LAUREN AND JUSTIN

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FINDING OUR WAY AGAIN-CHAPTER 8

Ok…so most of these quotes have been thought provoking, but this entire chapter has challenged most of my thought on the church and how we view “the now” and “the afterlife.” Amazingly I find myself resonating perfectly with where McLaren is trying to get the reader to go. Here are a few quotes. Please leave [...]

FINDING OUR WAY AGAIN-CHAPTER 6 & 7

More great quotes from Brian McLaren in his book Finding Our Way Again: “One of our most common temptations is to turn the way into a place, to turn the adventure into a status, to trade the runway for the hangar, to turn the holy path into a sitting room–even if we call it a [...]

BITE MARKS ON NIPPLES AND WHISKERS ON KITTENS

Let me start this by telling you a couple of things about me. I have two little girls that I absolutely and utterly adore. Ella is four and Natalie is almost 2. For the most part they get along great. They don’t really fight, they play well together, they are great sisters and really love [...]

FINDING OUR WAY AGAIN-CHAPTER 5

This entire chapter is about Paul and the way of love towards others. Here is another installment of a quote that I thought was great about our spiritual practice: “Without exercise or practice we will not experience transformation, but neither can we produce it through exercise and practice alone. There is another empowerment, utterly indispensable, [...]

FINDING OUR WAY AGAIN-CHAPTER 4

This whole chapter has been so compelling to me. I wish I could just re-write it here for you to read. However, the one thing that struck me was the last few thoughts of the chapter. So…here it is: “I wonder what would happen if we were willing to risk everything so that people could [...]