Pluggin' books
I added a list of books worth reading to the bottom of my individual entries. It is still a bit clunky, but it works.
I don't read enough. Gotta start reading more. I will try to keep fresh recommendations up.
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I added a list of books worth reading to the bottom of my individual entries. It is still a bit clunky, but it works.
I don't read enough. Gotta start reading more. I will try to keep fresh recommendations up.
I have been too busy doing the routine summer stuff to stop and say much on the blog lately. Andee and the kids went to Oregon for a week they got back a week ago Saturday. My sleep has been kinda messed up ever since. When the family is not around, there is no real pressure to sleep at a reasonable time, and as such, often I didn't get enough sleep. Oddly enough, it is actually a bit difficult for me to sleep when it is quiet. I am not too used to that.
I kept very busy. Went out to dinner with somebody or had a meeting almost every night. Kept me out of trouble.
The family has been back for a week now. They have been running pretty much non-stop getting the final playdates of the summer in before school starts. Julia had her orientation day at her new school. Nathan has his sometime next week. We spent an afternoon at some friend's lake cabin, and had a great time.
BSF starts the Monday after labor day. I can't wait. Romans this year.
Blind to death, he walks through his day.
Working for nothing, playing for nothing, loving emptiness
Seeing nothing, he invents meaning.
And begins his journey to the mirage.
His parched body hungers, and longs for loving touch.
Having never been satisfied, he doesn’t comprehend his pain.
As he marches, he gets no closer.
The monotony of his journey becomes his prison.
Inflicting pain on himself becomes his escape.
Adrenaline courses through his veins.
He only feels alive while participating in his own destruction
Scars form on his body and on his heart, and he rejoices in them.
A touch, a sip, or a bite would set him free.
One real experience and his delusions would be vanquished.
But nobody shares a touch, a sip or a bite.
Should a scarred man on a journey be interrupted?
So the pain of the journey continues indefinitely.
Until he falls into the lake of fire.
-JDR 8/16/06
One of the local newspaper blogs, Huckleberries online posed the question "What's Wrong With Saving It For Marriage?" Apparently a couple saved their first kiss for marriage, and that had caught a lot of interest by the audience.
Predictably some of the comments where fairly negative on the idea:
"Foolish""Test Drive!
Test Drive!
Test Drive!""that which is worth waiting for is probably cool to get really early too"
"I never buy a pair of shoes without trying them on first."
"Would you buy a car without test driving it first to see how it handles?"
My comment was "If you need a test drive, you are testifying to your spouse from the beginning that your love is conditional."
Coincidentally, I last night, I was listening to a Mars Hill sermon where Pastor Mark Driscoll suggested three criteria for selecting a wife. Is she breathing? Does she love Jesus? Will she put up with me?
I wonder if much of our crisis in marriage isn't caused by overexposure to romantic story lines in media? If we marry a girl because she meets 20 or 30 items on our criteria list, isn't our love pretty conditional? Is it really love at all? Or are we just entering a contract in order to gain something that we want?
The culture that we live in most likely sees unconditional love as foolishness. After all a husband's love for his wife is supposed to be a picture of Christ's love for his church. (Ephesians 5:25) If the message of the cross is seen as foolishness (1 Corinthians 1:18), should a biblical marriage be seen any differently?
So, what do you think? Is unconditional love foolish?
I have become a bit addicted to the Mars Hill Church Podcast.
Pastor Mark Driscoll seems just gritty enough to annoy the fundementalists and conservative enough to annoy the liberals. Since he teaches in the young, trendy, and mostly agnostic City of Seattle, he tends to teach on controversial subjects most of the time. As an added bonus, he is totally unapoligetic about it.
Here is a slightly tame sample:
Link: Mars Hill Feeds
I have been a Dreamhost customer since 1999, and I only recall one significant outage over that entire period. Until the last couple of weeks. Things have definately gotten pretty ugly.
DreamHost Blog ｻ Anatomy of a(n ongoing) Disaster..
One of the main reasons I like doing business with Dreamhost is that they are totally honest.
The fact of the matter is that in the world of computers. Things break. There will always be points of failure that are going to have catastrophic effects. (Routers and Power supply in particular)
We can mitigate these risks, but unless we own our own nuclear opwer plant, Urainum mine, Oil refinery, Highway , and dedicated lines to each household, these issues are always going to be beyond our control to one degree or another.
I am certianly going to stick it out! I trust Dreamhost's dilegence in trying to mitigate these risks, and I recongnize that any other provider Ichoose is going to be effected by the same issues at one point or another in their lifecycle.