A weekend with "The Littles"? priceless.

The Littles
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6 hours of talking (consecutively)
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2 movies
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one pull out couch
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a bottle of wine
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countless number of Shmem's one and only chocolate chip cookies
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3 bean burritos
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a rabbit the size of a coyote
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1 conversation with our dear Peruvian friend
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the perfect weekend

Thank you girls for a spectacular weekend...pictures to come...

The Batman Theology

After watching Batman Begins the other night for the third or fourth time, I've started to form a bit of a theology from it. The movie talks a lot about fear. The movie tells us, "We're always afraid of what we do not understand." It talks about embracing our fears, allowing our fears to make us stronger. I began to reflect on the fears present in my own life that paralyze me from being more, from trusting deeper, from loving without inhibitions. And the thought flashed into my mind...What if, instead of distracting myself from my fears with other thoughts and activities, I just let the fear in? I let the fear cloud my senses, let the terror consume. What if instead of fighting these fears with friends and personal affirmation, I just let it overtake me? Where would I find myself if I let the cold hands of fear place their tight grip around my frail neck? Would God's grace truly match and exceed the depth and isolation of the fear? As I continued to meditate, I realized it was not the actual scary thought or scenario that I was afraid of, it was the fear that Christ's love and goodness couldn't reach that far. Would He be sufficient to protect me? In that moment where there was nothing but the terror of my own ability to fail staring into the most real part of me, would Christ's victory stand firmer? There is no such thing as fear in the life of a lover of Christ for He holds all fear. It is His insufficiency that we really fear. And to that He proclaims, "I AM".

Linds

Context

Well, here we are three months later and still no more posts. We're deciding to do something about this, we're going to make a difference in the world. We are going to start posting more. I decided that before I start any rants or babblings about our own confusion (notice the first person possessive plural). I will give you all a context for our world right now. Right now our world consists of: Carenet Pregnancy Services, Moody, Starbucks, Wheaton Bible Church, our families, Kona, Community nite (communitynite.blogspot.com), and Denver!

Lindsey's working as the Abstinance Coordinator for Carenet, and she does some crisis peer counseling. She is also a solo Core group (Bible Study) leader for freshmen girls and she's liking it a lot. Lindsey has also been accepted in Denver Seminary's MA of Counseling program! My sweet ticket to the mountains and the West! Holla! So we got that going for us. We're both very excited about the program and the location.

I am currently working at one of the world's biggest corporations and am starting spite it. Ok spite is a strong word, but I'm finally starting to think about the role it plays in hyper-capitalism. So I'm trying to do something about that... getting another job that is. I've been plugging away at my Moody class (Senior Seminar only on Monday's and Friday's). I also have an internship with the Senior High at Wheaton Bible Church, which is going fairly well. I will be giving a message to the junior high group on April 23rd on Samson. Yes! I love doing Old Testament narrative versus epistle. So I've been spending time over there and making sure I can finish up on time, which I am desperately looking forward to.

Well here's an extremely brief summary of our lives since that fateful day, June 19th, 2005:

We went to Hawaii on a cruis for our Honeymoon, awesome!
We adopted a black lab/ chow mix from humane society, we named her Kona... boy what did we get ourselves into!
Marky switches to Starbucks 300 yards away from home... sweet!
We find out we live in a non-pet building (not stated during signing of the lease), $500... BOOO!
Lindsey and I have our first Christmas together... awww.
Marky starts spring semester.
Lindsey applys to Denver Seminary.
We visit a friend at Den Sem with Callie... awesome trip!
Lindsey gets accepted... YEAH!
Lindsey and Marky manage to watch the whole first season of Lost and get caught up in the second season via ABC.com in a matter of two weeks... Yikes!
Lindsey and Marky are still looking for a home for our pooch.