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The day when Christ came back to life… in this my favorite poem… “morning at the brown brink eastward springs….” There is much hope for this world.

GOD’S GRANDEUR

THE world is charged with the grandeur of God.
It will flame out, like shining from shook foil;
It gathers to a greatness, like the ooze of oil
Crushed. Why do men then now not reck his rod?
Generations have trod, have trod, have trod;
And all is seared with trade; bleared, smeared with toil;
And wears man’s smudge and shares man’s smell: the soil
Is bare now, nor can foot feel, being shod.

And for all this, nature is never spent;
There lives the dearest freshness deep down things;
And though the last lights off the black West went
Oh, morning, at the brown brink eastward, springs —
Because the Holy Ghost over the bent
World broods with warm breast and with ah! bright wings.

– Gerald Manley Hopkins

Leaving tomorrow for a flying trip to Poland. :) Yay!!!

Hello. I was looking at some previous posts and just noticed that last year about this time I did not post anything for several months.

That was not good.

I don’t want to repeat past mistakes. Last year I was rather burned out with school about that time. I was up to my ears in work.

I still am. But I don’t mind it as much. Life is MUCH BETTER than it was than, for more reasons than one. :)

My brother Daniel and his family are visiting Poland in two weeks. I’m green.

Life is good. I’m happy. God is so generous.

Tuesday it snowed. School was an hour late. :) The world was gorgeous.

It worked. :)

(Continued)

Folks, I’ll get right to the point.  I’m dating Alison Funk! I’m blessed, blessed, and amazed. I’m in Poland, where she is, and where I first met her in 2002. Here we are in front of her beloved little Fiat, the “frog,” which took us to the coffee shop where it began (again).

My drive to school. This is Virginia. I love it.

From 2008-10-26

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Our soybeans.

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No, You DO NOT use a comma…

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“The Church of Jesus Christ is not the goal of the Gospel, just the instrument of the extension of God’s mission”. “The Church has been slow to recognize that missions isn’t a program the Church administers, it is the very core of the Church’s reason for being.”  –John Franke