Posts from — July 2003

Speaking of the vanities of life, these comments sure are pointless.

Whoo hoo, again!

Last night I had the best time playing with Geneva. She discovered a straight line of space that’s around 25-30 feet long. It runs from her room, through the dining room and into the living room, dodging doors, walls, corners and various pieces of furniture.

So last night she was just running back and forth on this line. Then I started chasing her back and forth. She was loving it, going back and forth, back and forth, back and forth. I finally started tickling her at each end, and she had a ball. And, it was nice because it tired her out. She zonked right out almost as soon as I finished tucking her in, and was in the same spot a few hours later when I put Ashley in the crib.

But seeing Geneva have so much fun by doing such a monotonous thing reminded me of the glory of God in the sun rising and setting every day, from the seaons coming and going year after year. God glories in doing the same things over and over. And it really isn’t monotonous at all, now that I consider it.

comments up again (for the moment)

btw, comments are not working again.

R.J. Gore, in the last chapter of Covenantal Worship (which I just finished), writes:

Theologically, there are some tremendous implications involved in the regular, weekly observance of the the Lord’s Supper. First, it is a sign of judgment, in that it discriminates those who have been admitted to the family from those who are yet without. Indeed, all who are admitted have undergone the waters of judgment in baptism and have been delivered. Thus, there is an eschatological focus in that every time the communion is observed there is an anticipation of the final judgment when the people of God will be eternally separated from the unfaithful.

Yikes! The children that – despite being baptized – are banned from the Table are weekly receiving a sign of their eternal separation from the people of God!

btw, comments are working again.

I used to read a lot more.

Looking at my list of books I’ve finished this year, I realize that it’s pretty small (although, it is three or four times as long as the list from any year of my life before, say, my twentieth birthday. I just didn’t read). I guess three hours a day in driving time has cut out a big chunk of my reading time. The stack of books waiting to be read is growing rather than shrinking.

The list of all the sermons and/or lectures I’ve listened to this year, though, is quite impressive.

Ah, the vanities of life.

Megan is reading The Lord of the Rings again, and she can’t stop saying how good the books are. The movies – as good as they are – actually made her (erroneously) think the books weren’t as good as they are.

If you’re one of those freakish people that haven’t read the books yet… get to it! You’re only hurting yourself!

Less than 24 hours after I add an email address I get spam.

How lame.

Oh yeah… in the conversation with my wife, I was informed that the power company came out and connected our power line. We’re up to 200 amps, baby!

In other news, I received from my brother a month-late birthday gift… $25 gift certificate to Borders. Of course, there are no Borders in Virginia, but it works online. I got John Granger’s book on Harry Potter and the hardbound Leave It To Psmith. Looking forward to reading them both.

Thanks, David!

So I’m talking to my wife on IM, and then, out of the blue, she says

“anyhow. geneva just put a fork in the fan.”

Always exciting, those kiddos.