Two camping trips in one week; its not hunting or a mountain fix, but for now it will do.
Last week I took the boys on their first camping trip. We went to Dinosaur Valley State Park on Monday and Tuesday. Dinosaur Valley is one of my favorite places for a short get away. Unfortunately, it rained just about the whole time and we didn't get to do everything I was hoping we would. But the boys handled it really well. They made the best of the situation. They did not complain. They followed instructions.
We had a fun time and I was extremely proud of them. God willing we will hopefully be able to camp together more in the future.
Then, last Saturday and Sunday I took my Sunday school class camping. The main point of the trip was to go see The Promise in Glen Rose. I thought those guys would enjoy camping so I made that part of the trip too. We camped in tents at Riverbend Retreat Center. The weather was perfect. The kids were pretty good. We had fun.
It had been a long time since I had gotten outside and it was good to spend several days in the country. If you live in the central Texas area or the Dallas/Ft. Worth area, I highly recommend Dinosaur Valley and The Promise. Check them out, you'll be glad you did.
Thursday, October 22, 2009
Friday, October 2, 2009
Happy Anniversary
Hey, today is the two year anniversary of this blog. The first entry is here.
Meanwhile Facebook and Twitter seem to have taken over a lot of people's screen time so there's less time for blog reading. But there are still a whole bunch of good blogs around.
Its been a crazy two years. We've seen economic catastrophe and political catastrophe with the election of a president who goes around apologizing for his nation being great and liberal legislators trying to re-engineer our society into something bordering on socialism. Every day the news is filled with stories of unbelievable human depravity such that nothing seems to shock us anymore.
Kris has gone from a Claymaniac to a Jonas Momma. She's had to give up some of her Stampin' Up time to take a part time job. The boys are really growing up, doing well in school and they seem to be growing spiritually. Blake and I are finally seeing a little spark of growth in the youth ministry.
Lately I've been trying to figure out why primarily spiritual beings have to spend a blip on the eternal radar screen trapped in a material world. We're forced to live in two realities at once. We're constantly pulled in two opposite directions. We spend tremendous amounts of time, energy, and resources to satisfy our material needs and wants when we should be storing up treasures in Heaven. Why are we given this struggle? Why is it so easy to give ourselves to the material world at the expense of the spiritual?
Makes you really appreciate Enoch doesn't it. Genesis 5:24 says, "Enoch walked with God; then he was no more, because God took him away." Apparently Enoch was so given over to the spiritual rather than the material that God translated him directly into Heaven. Isn't that cool? He must have been something.
The Enoch challenge: depend less and less on the material and more and more on the spiritual. Any takers?
Meanwhile Facebook and Twitter seem to have taken over a lot of people's screen time so there's less time for blog reading. But there are still a whole bunch of good blogs around.
Its been a crazy two years. We've seen economic catastrophe and political catastrophe with the election of a president who goes around apologizing for his nation being great and liberal legislators trying to re-engineer our society into something bordering on socialism. Every day the news is filled with stories of unbelievable human depravity such that nothing seems to shock us anymore.
Kris has gone from a Claymaniac to a Jonas Momma. She's had to give up some of her Stampin' Up time to take a part time job. The boys are really growing up, doing well in school and they seem to be growing spiritually. Blake and I are finally seeing a little spark of growth in the youth ministry.
Lately I've been trying to figure out why primarily spiritual beings have to spend a blip on the eternal radar screen trapped in a material world. We're forced to live in two realities at once. We're constantly pulled in two opposite directions. We spend tremendous amounts of time, energy, and resources to satisfy our material needs and wants when we should be storing up treasures in Heaven. Why are we given this struggle? Why is it so easy to give ourselves to the material world at the expense of the spiritual?
Makes you really appreciate Enoch doesn't it. Genesis 5:24 says, "Enoch walked with God; then he was no more, because God took him away." Apparently Enoch was so given over to the spiritual rather than the material that God translated him directly into Heaven. Isn't that cool? He must have been something.
The Enoch challenge: depend less and less on the material and more and more on the spiritual. Any takers?
A Prediction
Someday society will mine landfills for resources such as metals and organic matter.
"Sounds like a great job for our great grandchildren," he said facetiously.
"Sounds like a great job for our great grandchildren," he said facetiously.
Thursday, September 10, 2009
More health care reform
I did not hear the president's speech last night. However, I heard part of an interview with him on Nightline. During that interview he said that he is very interested in changing the way health care is delivered in the United States. I found that to be a very clarifying comment. It really gets down to the crux of this whole health care reform issue. And it depresses me so much that half the country is okay with that.
Honestly, who is he (a lawyer and politician) to tell doctors how they should deliver their product. It is not the role of government to do that. Congress needs to back off and find another way to deal with people who cannot afford their own medical care (i.e., insurance reform, healthy lifestyles, tort reform, etc.).
If they do pass this huge, sweeping, reform bill, then someone needs to write a law that puts the American Medical Association in charge of reforming the legal profession.
Honestly, who is he (a lawyer and politician) to tell doctors how they should deliver their product. It is not the role of government to do that. Congress needs to back off and find another way to deal with people who cannot afford their own medical care (i.e., insurance reform, healthy lifestyles, tort reform, etc.).
If they do pass this huge, sweeping, reform bill, then someone needs to write a law that puts the American Medical Association in charge of reforming the legal profession.
Wednesday, September 2, 2009
Are sports life?
As if there were any doubt left about whether sports have become way to important in our society, get a load of the conversation I heard on the radio this morning. The morning host and the sports caster were arguing about the fact that Tony Romo has a new girlfriend. If you don't know, Romo dumped Jessica Simpson just two months ago and he is now apparently seeing another attractive, blond, semi-celebrity.
The sports guy was upset that this will be a big distraction to Romo and the team here at the start of a new season. The host felt like Romo has the right to a private life. Duh.
With all the junk going on in our world that needs to be newsworthy and that people need to talk about and deal with, and these guys think its important to talk about Tony Romo's love life. As if it matters to anything going on in the real world. We have so lost it as a society.
The sports guy was upset that this will be a big distraction to Romo and the team here at the start of a new season. The host felt like Romo has the right to a private life. Duh.
With all the junk going on in our world that needs to be newsworthy and that people need to talk about and deal with, and these guys think its important to talk about Tony Romo's love life. As if it matters to anything going on in the real world. We have so lost it as a society.
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