Then and now

First off, my prayers and concerns with those in southern California. Wow.

Not writing anything these past few days (other than at work) has not been easy. So now I'm going to write about not writing? Compelling stuff here. A little over a week to go. I can make it.

Okay, just a quick update: Thanks to Facebook, I recently got in touch with someone I took a class with in college way back in the day. He and I hung out a few times as part of a study group for that class, I think. This was back when I was 19 or 20, so it has been a while. Well, we got a chance to catch up a bit, and it turns out that he's been doing some amazing missional work here in the KC area. He and his wife have two kids, and their family is truly God-centered in their mission and service goals. How beautiful is that?

I also got an email recently asking me why I stopped blogging (referring to my old blog). For a while I was posting both on there and on here, because I thought that I should keep my faith-writings separate from my "everyday" stuff. Essentially, I was compartmentalizing God, which is absurd because God belongs at the center of all things, including my everyday stuff. Once I realized that was what I was doing, I decided to just post on here. This past weekend I read through some of my old posts on that blog, though, and it was interesting to see where I was in my faith and general outlook a couple of years ago, especially considering it was in the Fall, two years ago, that I was going through a major valley...but, my faith really deepened in the process of that.

However, the best part was reading the post I wrote one year ago. It included what are quite possibly the most profound sentences I have ever created: "I like monkeys and ninjas. I especially like monkeys that are trained to be ninjas."

Alas, some things never change.