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Tuesday, January 4, 2011

Some pictures from the last week with the visitors...

Stanley Park

Ice skating on Robson

Skiing at Whistler

Isn't she lovely?

Friends :)

This past week Tasha and some of our other friends from states have been in Vancouver visiting. Although it is a bit emotionally wearing to see people for a few days and then say goodbye all over again it still has been so nice to be able to reconnect with old friends and spend some time playing tourist in my own city.

On Saturday, Tasha and I met our friends Grady and Holly (along with their little Diego) in Point Roberts and since Grady and Holly just happen to be pilots we had the opportunity to fly with them from Point Roberts to Bellingham to see Kevin and Alyssa. Now, considering that the landing strip in Point Roberts is more like a long stretch of grass and the plane was slightly smaller than what I have taken in the past (not to mention the first step in the take off preparation steps was to "pray") I was a bit skeptical if we would make it alive. However, it

turned out to be an incredible experience so, thank you Holly and Grady!

Sunday, December 12, 2010

"I am full now, not empty. I am in Love Himself, not lonely. Strong, not weak. You shall be the same. Come and see. We shall have no need for one another now; we can begin to love truly".

- C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce

Wednesday, November 24, 2010

So I have been thinking recently about switching to this "tumblr" thing which seems to be so popular in the blogging world but then I realize that I could never leave this lovely blog behind.

³⁷No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. ³⁸For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons,^[^m^] neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, ³⁹neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord. Romans: 8

Whether it be the vastness of a galaxy of stars in which we are only a small fragment or the beauty of something we know is not of ourselves we are drawn back into the glory of a God much grander than all that is this life. Lost within this world that seeks to confuse us, cloud us with uncertainty and overburden us until we focus so on ourselves that we cannot see a Christ whom redeems all these things. Although we may stumble in the battle, the Lord is near and promises that if we persevere, none of these things can separate us from Him.