This makes me smile.

So I was all about doing a sudo miniseries but I decided to take a quick break. Why? Well, to just laugh at our Lord's sense of humor. 4 months ago I was a rowdy mess that enjoyed having a good time by myself (well with friends). Now, I am a rowdy mess that enjoys having a good time with a great God loving woman, who for some reason likes me in her life. When I met Katie I had no concept of how God was going to use her in my life. Back story: yes four months does not seem like that long, but every past relationship that I had before Katie had always failed by this point. Normally by some shenanigan that I would pull, and I would usually have already made a "B" line for the door. So when I look at our relationship I can be thankful. Because A. The Lord has a sense of humor, by wanting Katie to keep me around while we try to work with a couple of stumbling Christ-lovers, and focus on who Jesus really is. And B. The girl is awesome. She actually laughs at about sixty percent of my jokes. That's a landslide victory. So for you guys that think 4 months is not long at all: How about them apples?

The Voice: Part I

In between the old testament and the new testament, after Malachi and before Matthew there is usually a blank page. This page does more than signify the transition between the old and new testaments. What this signifies is a time when God was silent. This was a time when the world was dark and dim. This was a time when the once Living God no longer spoke to the people he so cherished. For 400 years God was silent. This may not seem like that big of a deal to most, but imagine this time. It's hard for me to write about this time, because the thought of a God that so loves us not being there is hard to grasp. However this time had to happen. This time had to come so we could experience the greatest story ever told.
If you have ever seen the movie or read the book: Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe, C.S. Lewis brilliantly described the time in which God was silent. When Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy arrived to Narnia they arrived to a land that was cold, dark and lonely. Sound familiar? This would be that 400 year time that earth was cold, dark and lonely. Yet the prophecy in Narnia began to become true. Aslan who had been gone for many years, yet upon the arrival of these four youths, the true king of Narnia was on the move again.
Upon the arrival of Jesus into this world, the true king of Heaven and earth, God began to go on the move again. After 400 years of silence, after the conception of the prophesied Messiah, God went on the move. God who did not fill his anyone with his spirit for nearly half a millennium came onto Mary, and chose her to be the mother of his flesh into this world. The silence had ended. God was on the move again, the true king was on the move...


More to Come...

More to come...

This is what the beach looked like tonight...