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I was out walking tonight in the dark and the rain before bed, and remembered that I haven’t updated in a long time. Because honestly, there hasn’t really been anything to update. However, this week it will have been five months since we lost everything — our home, all we owned, and our sweet sixth…
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Truly, there is a LOT in this section, more than I would have preferred to squeeze into one Sunday Morning. Alas, me sitting down to organize my notes this afternoon is more important, since I sadly had to skip much. Being rather a long section of scripture, I will not copy and paste the entire…
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We are in a battle, yet many of us fail to see it. This week’s lesson I for Sunday School is 1 Peter 5:1-11, there are a couple themes we could pick apart. Initially, it touches on elders and their leadership, the humility needed for their work. Then it builds to the humility needed by…
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We’ve been studying 1 Peter in our class now for six weeks, and I am thankful that while we still cannot slow down as much as I like, we are able to cover it without skipping chunks. Sometimes the quarterly guide we use hits high points of books (think Job or Genesis, while important, incredibly…
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I was asked by my good buddy to speak in Chapel about the events of the fire, about how we’ve sought the Lord, wrestled through the unknown, etc. Below are my slightly chaotic notes from my preparation. Thought they might be worth saving, and sharing here too. If you happen to read this, you’re getting…
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It has been three months and one week since the fire. In that time, Brian has taken the lead on updates, while I have done what comes naturally—processing much of it internally. Calling this season suffering feels extreme in some ways, especially when we think of others who have walked through deeper valleys of grief…
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There would be no way of you knowing this, unless of course you’re in my Sunday School Class. But every Sunday, for almost five years, I have taught a Sunday school class at my church. Before that, I taught youth for probably ten years. But during COVID, I was asked to fill in for an…
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3 Months — Many of you have asked for an update and wanted to know how things are going post-fire. Well, we are roughly 3 months out from the day, and things have moved forward some, and time has stood still in others. We are “okay”, most of the time. But we have hard days,…
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Family, Friends, Neighbors, Community — From the most sincere place in our hearts, thank you. We are coming to realize that the last weeks since the fire, we’ve been living in a fog. There have been lots of emotions, exhaustion, a constant state of feeling overwhelmed, and probably a good bit of shock. Nevertheless, so…
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In many ways, it feels as though the fire were yesterday, a bad dream we may wake up from eventually. In some ways it seems like another lifetime. While I hope to not accidentally infer that we’ll have a festering wound forever (although I kind of want to keep my scars on my hands from…
