another trial run

Can I post, too?

Upside-down pictures of the newest member of the Hamlin family. 

Sledding in Blacksburg, the day before breaking my ankle. 

Just seeing if it works

If a tree falls in a forest, and no one hears it,...

Why?

We'll see how long I can keep writing before Internet Explorer crashes again. Sometimes I wonder why the heck I am here. I mean, it used to make sense to me, but then as soon as I started doing it, it ceased to. Nonetheless, I am still here. For some reason God has me here. He could have very easily expressed his will in keeping me from raising the support to be here. However, he expressed his will in giving me the money to return, for reasons unbeknownst to me. So we've got this whole idea that the church is a body, diverse in its parts, but unified in its whole, each part supporting and helping the others. What part am I? I guess I am probably like the back hair or something analagous, something that seemingly has no purpose until God explains it at some point in the future to show how he uses the foolish and weak things of the world to shame the wise. Paul seems to have a wild imagination when he says to the Corinthians that the testimony about Christ was confirmed among them, so that they are not lacking in any spiritual gift, as they wait for the revealing of the Lord Jesus Christ, who will sustain them to the end, guiltless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ. But maybe God had in plan for them to become a great manifestation of his glory, and for them to shame the wise, and for them to make known the manifold wisdom of God to the rulers and authorities in the heavenly places. This is the only pattern which could make sense of God's having me here (if I am here for anyone's sake but my own, and people in S.C.), b/c I am faithless, weak, and foolish, not useful to God. I hope to see the Corinthian church, clothed in robes of glory, someday. We could rejoice together in the faithfulness of our God, and his great love, expressed in making lovely, the unlovely, by uniting us to Jesus in his resurrection. This is still my hope.

It's been a while

Well, it's been almost a month since I last posted. I wanted to update both of you (my readership) on the goings-on. My cell phone number has changed, so look on the Aggie RUF directory for my new number or something. Also, in one week, I will be on my way home from Houston (through Detroit), to be with family and friends (including one friend in particular) for Thanksgiving. I actually do have thoughts every now and then; I just forget them before I return to my blog. Here is something, though. I am really looking forward to seeing them. It has been a while, and I will have much to be thankful for when I am with them again.

Maybe I'll regret this

Maybe this makes me really lame, but I am going to go ahead and say on this blog that I wish that my long-distance relationship was not long-distance. My desire is definitely inordinate. I am coveting something that God has not given. It is difficult not to think that things would be better if we were together; however, I must trust God that his will is good for me. Maybe this is being too personal. However, I am about 99.5% sure that the only people that read this blog are pretty close personally to me. I will probably delete this post as soon as I see it again. I honestly don't know why I'm writing it. I could write this down on a piece of paper, and it would be better. Well, I am tired.