The Wrong Thing and the Right Thing
Hey Gang,
On a happier note, I am the proud owner of one o’ them new fangled iphones and I am one happy guy. Still discovering all the goodness.
So I was strolling through Times Square not too long ago when I happened across the Times Square Visitor Center. My initial though was that this might be a good place to encounter a less-than-repulsive bathroom to use. And I was correct. But there was also a LOT more to check out.
Hey gang, Having a bit of a crazy week so I don't have too much time to post. But this past Saturday was probably my favorite day of the year so far. We baptized 49 people in the waters of the Long Island Sound. 49 people who are finding their role in God's amazing story and taking that next step in their faith: publicly declaring to the world that they belong to Christ and they don't care who knows it!! Honestly. This moves me in ways I can't even bring words to. Seeing lives change... it's... it's ...
Here's a little devotional thought that seems to go hand-in-hand with what I wrote a couple weeks ago about having deep roots. This dramatic photo is not airbrushed or photo-shopped. It's a real sinkhole that opened up in Guatemala after after tropical storm 'Agatha' and the image was published by both National Geographic and the BBC. Amazing, no? And absolutely terrifying. The idea that a hole that big could open up right under your feet... man. It's chilling. Cars? Houses? People? Sinkholes can swallow them all. This one ate a three story building.
I was passing by a tree in my neighborhood recently, which had blown down in a windstorm. You know, one of those once-a-year storms that comes out of nowhere with some serious velocity. This tree looked like it had been around a while. Not a California redwood by any stretch, but no sapling either. Old enough to have weathered dozens of years and hundreds of storms would be my estimate. But not on this particular day. On this particular day, at this particular moment, the wind was too much for it and it toppled, exposing its root bundle and now ...
Hey Gang,
Ok, so yesterday James Pryor** and I went to a Yankee Game.
Ok, maybe not the best ever, but it was pretty dang good.
You gotta love this!!!