Can you even post a blog with the name "Indians" in it? Or is that too un-PC?
This is where things happen in life. Somewhere between self-aggrandizement and apathetic insensibility. We all want to be burning for something but not to burn up. We want to set limits but not lose our heart.
Tuesday, June 26, 2007
One little, two little... Indians
Can you even post a blog with the name "Indians" in it? Or is that too un-PC?
Tuesday, June 19, 2007
Jamie playing with the camera
Cuts and Bruises
Tuesday, June 12, 2007
A Day in the Life of...
Today I am writting this post in mac's Safari browser. Normally, I've had to use Firefox because Safari was unable to display all the functions of blogger.com. I must say... Thank you Apple! This is the best browser experience to dato.
Monday, June 11, 2007
Little Boy Sleeps
I wish for our family, for myself, Kristine and our littel boy Jamie that we could live in such a way that many would understand the message of Christ. Forgiving and Forbearing one another daily.
Wednesday, June 06, 2007
Gone the whole day

Had a long day today. Got home a little while ago and sat down next to Kristine. She read some until she finally fell asleep on the couch. I really don't like being gone from the morning till the evening. Sometimes I leave around 9am and get home shortly after 10pm. Sometimes I leave home at 7.30am and get home at 11.30pm. Other times I get home around 4pm. Those are wonderful days for our family. They seem to be few and far between though.
Listen to me... Just got home from a whole week with the family in Austria and I'm already complaining. I guess that's just it though. Like the saying goes, "you don't know what you got till it's gone". The week with Kristine and Jamie (of course there were a lot of people from the church there as well), was like balsam for my soul. Inside I began dancing and feeling the spirit of my Kristine in ways I couldn't imagine. After spending just a week with her, every day all day, her problems, worries, fears and dreams are more real to me and make me l

Vacation is not for the week at heart but rather for those, who have grasped the truth behind a healthy mind and spirit, and the magic that happens in the community of ones family in the time you are away together.
Go on vacation more! All of you!
Tuesday, June 05, 2007
All Things New
I really hope that we can use the means available to us today (like this blog for example) to encourage each other to not merely act like Christians are supposed to act but much more to encourage toward obedience to the call of Christ, which was a call to go out and be what you could never be on your own. To do the impossible because the God of all Creation is alive in you.
Be encouraged to take the next 5 minutes to focus on where God is leading you. Not where you want to go, but what God is wanting to make your heart into. Maybe that means loving someone who you'd rather hate. Or skipping a TV show to talk with your kids. Whoever you are and whatever your poison, ask God to give you eyes to see His work in the next 5 minutes.
It's often hard to be dad and mom sometimes. There's constantly someone there sucking you dry. Kristine gets to spend more time with Jamie than I do so she could write a book about being sucked dry. At the church retreat though, I got to feel what it's like to have Jamie around 24 hrs a day and it was a wonderful experience. I was really challenged to ask God what His heart was for the next 5 minutes. Made me look at Jamie with new eyes... every 5 minutes. It was hard, but thinking like that really made me enjoy every second of our time together.
I cannot simply say I believe in the love of God and then keep it all to myself. Or even worse, select the people, whom I'm going to give it to.
Be encouraged, and be bold! If you are in Christ, you have been and are being made new.
Sunday, June 03, 2007
Home again, home again
Jamie's birthday was the best. I think he really enjoyed getting some surprises and especially the cake with all the people singing to him. It was a great time. There's nothin' like seeing your little boy smiling at his birthday party.
As good as it was though, it was great to get home today. I'll be posting all the pictures from the trip soon so, if anyone would like you can take a look at them all.
As for now...
Friday, June 01, 2007
Vacation with Family and Friends
It's actually called a "Family-Retreat". Sounds pretty official, but I have to say, we are really enjoying ourselves here. We're right in the middle of one of the most beautiful parts of
Last night Jamie couldn't sleep, so I got up with him and walked around. Had to do it twice cause the first time didn't take. The second time I had to get up and walk around with him (around 2am), we went to a quite room somewhere on the east side of the building. (Facing the Moonrise). It was a full moon! The sky was pretty clear and the moon shown between the mountains like a beacon of hope. It was an encouragement and a reminder. Dark times do come and joyful times will once again greet us in the morning. But the tears of the night, we still have to cry.
May you be strengthened today, knowing that God sends the moon as well as the sun. And sometimes he takes them both altogether. It's our task, no matter what; to remember that it all serves His greater good. It's just that His "greater Good" is not always recognizable for as such from our side.
Jamie turned a year old yesterday! Oh, how we shouted for joy! God be glorified and praised for the life of our boy, whom He gave! Jamie, may you be granted with ears to hear the voice of your great Father, and eyes to see His beauty, always!
We love you and are proud of you!