If a tree falls because its covered in ice, and it falls on your neighbors yard, did it make a sound?

There was the sound of creaking wood and crashings all day.  In our backyard, we lost a pine tree that was completely uprooted.  We also lost a big part of our neighbors willow... true not ours but it was part of our view, and we will greatly miss it.

It does look pretty though.  Nature cased in ice, cased in white, glittering and bending down.  With everything the way it is, it kind of makes everything non-natural look alien.  It looks as if two divergent worlds suddenly were thrown together. 

Popcorn bunnies

Sometimes, at night, I make popcorn. It is a favourite snack of mine. Its also a favourite of Claire's. And as we sit on the couch and wtch a movie, we'll carefully go through the large bowl of popcorn.

What are we looking for?

Well, much like Charlie, Lucy, and Linus, we see things in our "kernel clouds". Sometimes there are ducks. Sometimes there are people. Sometimes there are bunnies and puppies. And no matter how hard we try, eventually of them go away. And we're stuck with the remains of kernels who have lost their full potential, adn will remain a mystery as to what they could've been.

Claire and I, just sittin on the couch, eatin popcorn and talking. Awesome.

Duleity

My friend, Brent, found this, and I thought it cool enough to pass along.

http://www.duelity.net/

And, hey, let's hear it for new laptops and Macbooks everywhere!!

The best Hanukkah, ever.

Small Group

Col 1:9-14:

9For this reason, since the day we heard about you, we have not stopped praying for you and asking God to fill you with the knowledge of his will through all spiritual wisdom and understanding. 10And we pray this in order that you may live a life worthy of the Lord and may please him in every way: bearing fruit in every good work, growing in the knowledge of God, 11being strengthened with all power according to his glorious might so that you may have great endurance and patience, and joyfully 12giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of the saints in the kingdom of light. 13For he has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of the Son he loves, 14in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.

I love my Small Group. There are not enough words to express my thankfulness to God for the group of friends He surrounds me with. They are a great group and there is never the dull moment. And their want to grow in Christ makes me want to be a better leader.

And that my wife is part of this group makes it all the sweeter.

As I read through the beginning of Colossians, I was just reminded of how full of grace God is to allow me to be a part of their lives.