Last night, while I was laying in bed (after our childbirth ed class), I was thinking about our baby again. That phrase from Psalm 139 popped into my head about how God knit me together in my mother's womb. What a neat way to put it. Right now, even as I write this, God is piecing together that little girl with so much care and attention. I don't think that she'll ever understand how much He loves her. Shoot. I'll never understand how much He loves me. She's just in there doing whatever babies do --kicking, sucking her fingers, or whatever-- totally oblivious to the miracle that God is doing in her and to her.

That's what got me thinking.

Here I am, just going through the motions of life, with hardly a thought about this God who loves me so much. All this time, He's working on me, with care and attention, making me into the man that He wants me to be. God is working miracles in us and to us and through us all the time, but we never take the time to notice.

For you created my inmost being; 
     you knit me together in my mother's womb. 
I praise you because I am fearfully and 
          wonderfully made; 
     your works are wonderful, 
     I know that full well. 
My frame was not hidden from
     you when I was made in the secret place. 
When I was woven together in the 
          depths of the earth, 
     your eyes saw my unformed body. 
All the days ordained for me 
     were written in your book 
     before one of them came to be. 

I did some tinkering with my blog. Nothing too drastic, but it took me two and a half hours to do it. I but some cool solid lines around this thing and I cut and pasted made those link dropdowns. I need some lunch.

1. Determine for yourself what are the "fundamental" (absolutely non-negotiable) aspects of the Christian faith. List and discuss these -- then, discuss how this might affect how you would begin to share your faith with a person from another faith. Be sure to include a discussion of how this might require you to "compromise" on at least one issue of "doctrine" [non-fundamental] that you personally hold dear.

2. Develop an "Eastern worldview" Christian Theology. That is, describe how a person born and raised in the Far East might view/describe key Christian concepts -- then, compare and contrast this with a "Western worldview" Christian theology.

Sorry that I've just been posting links to other stuff, but I've been pretty busy with school (plus I think that these are worth checking out).

The Church of No Crap

Cloud of Witnesses--Info on Francois Fenelon, Jeanne Guyon, and Brother Lawrence.

So, that new invention has been revealed. It's really worth checking out (no pun intended). It's a scooter-thingy that balances itself, and it goes the direction and speed that you *think* it should go.