I touched down in Ohio today, to start the wedding celebration weekend. I was reunited with my one true love.
In Heather’s honor, I went around calling the dog “Katie Scarlett.” I miss Heather too.
For fun on this trip, Mom brought some old notes she received from my brothers and me over the years. They were [...]
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day 1 with the fam
Posted in God, family on October 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Love is Real
Posted in God, emotions, family, friendship, love on October 9, 2009 | 9 Comments »
I have been thinking about the nature of love a lot lately. And how to avoid the loss of it. If you ever can avoid the loss of it. I’ve been talking with friends about past break-ups and current ones, especially as they involve the loss of your first love. Here is what I have [...]
I summited Mt. Timpanogos today.
Posted in God, Utah, emotions, nature, prayer on September 26, 2009 | 13 Comments »
When 2009 began, I had a handful of goals, and number 1 was: “Climb Mt. Olympus in Salt Lake City, perhaps also Mt. Timpanogos.” I have successfully completed that goal. I summited Mt. Olympus on 7-18-09 at 9,026 ft. above sea level, and Mt. Timpanogos TODAY at 11,749 ft. above sea level. I know that [...]
all-church camp-out: Pine Cliff
Posted in God, Utah, family, music, nature on September 6, 2009 | 8 Comments »
Holladay UCC has an annual camp-out weekend, and I was blessed to be a part of it these past few days. I have found a church family. I enjoyed getting to know so many new people, of all different ages. We shared meals together, went on a hike together, sang songs together…. I can’t wait [...]
as one blessing leaves, another arrives
Posted in God, friendship, missionary, music on August 15, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Throughout the summer, as you well know, Heather and I have been going on hikes with the Mt. Olympus Presbyterian group. We met a great couple there named Nancy and Dave:
As you’ll remember from a previous entry, I started taking piano lessons again and found myself in need of a piano. I visited a piano [...]
We came, we saw, we camped.
Posted in God, Utah, food, friendship, music, nature, psalms on July 12, 2009 | 6 Comments »
Heather and I went on another hike with the Mt. Olympus Presbyterian hiking group Thursday, on Mill B North Fork Trail to Overlook about five miles up Big Cottonwood Canyon. That wasn’t enough to satiate our appetite for the outdoors. The following day, we drove to the Stansbury Mountains (North Willow Canyon) to camp out [...]
beautiful hike to Dog Lake in Big Cottonwood Canyon
Posted in God, Utah, family, nature, prayer, psalms on July 3, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I really needed to be alone with God today, and going on a quiet hike usually helps. When I’m not concentrating on my footing, my panting, or my impending death by rattlesnakes, I can pray. That’s what I did tonight, for a two-hour hike to Dog Lake. I got the idea from my friend’s blog [...]
Zion National Park and Kolob Canyons
Posted in God, Utah, family, food, nature on May 13, 2009 | 4 Comments »
On Monday my parents flew here from Alaska for a six-day visit, their first time “outside” in almost a year. Yesterday we set out for Zion National Park, about a five-hour drive from my apartment. It would be my second visit, their first.
Here I am modeling the extremely hip and practical backpack my brother Jon got [...]
offertory this morning
Posted in God, music on May 3, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Well Jesus was a homeless lad,
with an unwed mother and an absent dad,
and I really don’t think he would have gotten that far,
if Newt, Pat, and Jesse had followed that star.
So let’s all sing out praises to
that long-haired radical socialist Jew.
When Jesus taught the people, he
would never charge a tuition fee.
He just took some fishes [...]
an excerpt from today’s sermonette
Posted in God, emotions on April 19, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Lumen campus ministry (for Lutherans, Episcopalians, and hangers-on) guest speaker Matt Seddon wrote the following reflection on the doubting Thomas story:
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Our doubts and questions are a fundamental aspect of who we are. But is a reasonable doubt–a question about something fantastic and inherently unbelievable, something that requires a leap of faith to accept–truly [...]
