Life is deliciously enjoyable. Thick summer air, delightful conversations with old friends, and the promise that in a few days I will have a new last name (with, of course, all the name-changing stress that brings with it; still and all, I like the new one better).

Oh the joy and delight that comes with watching the Lord provide and resting on his impeccable timing. I spout platitudes about having faith and trusting in the Lord, and I really do try to believe that I mean it; but somehow, I feel like "mere" faith is a cop-out, a lazy-man's excuse for sitting back and doing nothing. But He works despite my doubt, and I find myself saying "Lord I believe, help thou mine unbelief"--believe not only in his power, but also in his goodness in choosing the path and the time that is best.

Life is deliciously enjoyable. Thick summer air, delightful conversations with old friends, and the promise that in a few days I will have a new last name (with, of course, all the name-changing stress that brings with it; still and all, I like the new one better).

Oh the joy and delight that comes with watching the Lord provide and resting on his impeccable timing. I spout platitudes about having faith and trusting in the Lord, and I really do try to believe that I mean it; but somehow, I feel like "mere" faith is a cop-out, a lazy-man's excuse for sitting back and doing nothing. But He works despite my doubt, and I find myself saying "Lord I believe, help thou mine unbelief"--believe not only in his power, but also in his goodness in choosing the path and the time that is best.

A wedding in a week-and-a-half.

It was far away and I was just a newly dating freshman in college, thinking that dating was the biggest thing that could happen to me; and suddenly here I am about to walk down the aisle, proud owner of a house and a husband. And pretty soon we will be an old married couple, laughing at the foibles of those "cute young couples."

Don't have any deep thought left in my head with all the wedding planning; I just think that the passage of time is remarkable for it's swift steady movement forward, without concern for what I think are the biggest moments of my life.