Tweets for the past week

  • Just Emma being herself 🙂 http://twitpic.com/2q53dl #
  • Tuesday was fine 🙂 Wednesday will be long. Thursday we'll see. Friday, Let's not get ahead of ourselves. #
  • Reading all my friends' status updates about school this, and school that is giving me anxiety… #schoolisnotforme yet I may return 1 day. #
  • Authenticity can never be under estimated, it is the root to "the truth will set you free". #
  • Wow, incredible, strange, and unreal: RT @komonews: Knife removed from Brazil man's head after 3 years: http://bit.ly/9nuAJt #whoa #
  • Biggest pet peeve on @trimet… people playing loud music, loud enough I can hear it with my headphones on. #maxcar321a at stop ID 8338 #
  • Going to the Polish Festival in an hour or so, should be fun! #
  • Rilee and Emma at the Polish festival http://twitpic.com/2s015f #

Time does not stop

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"Urban living" in Gresham

Well, this past year has been one of the most interesting for me and my family. Lots of bumps, lots of fun times, and lots of “what on earth are we doing!” moments. It seems, as though out of our control, time has decided to continue on. So many times in this last year it seemed like time was going by far to slow, it seemed we were waiting for something, but wasn’t quite sure. Now, time seems to be flying by, not because we’re having fun (we are far from having any kind of fun), but because all of sudden, we are at a place that we could’ve never imagined. It’s as if we woke up and our plane was hi-jacked, and no one announced what our new destination was.

For the most part we have been content not knowing the destination, after all, God likes to give assignments and adventures to his children. We are in no doubt that Poland is our ultimate, physical location and calling. However, God is definitely teaching us through the process, and while we walk through this desert experience, following God around, we will try to not complain about the mana. We have a lot to learn and know it will take time, time which is not stopping. So because time doesn’t want to stop for us, and we obviously can’t ignore that it moves on, we are focusing our energy.

God’s provision, protection, and love have been (as expected, yet hard to understand at times) overwhelmingly evident. We are surrounded by amazing friends, and we know the next year will be full of love, hope, and renewal. While time moves on, we will move with it, and we will move with God in his timing. God’s grace and truth is most important and this next year is to focus on those things, applying them in ways we know will be new and renewing.

Tweets for the past week

  • Any guys out there that want to go to the Foursquare Northwest Men's retreat? http://bit.ly/9Sa9er #
  • Can't wait for our furniture to get delivered! Tomorrow night we sleep on a real mattress again! #
  • Note to self: Remember to wash face *after* shaving… #
  • copy/paste, ctrl+c/ctrl+v – repeat – 5 x 154 #
  • I have now completed pressing ctrl+c/ctrl+v 770 times… yay. #
  • RELIEVED RT @KATUNews: AP: Christian minister in FL cancels plan 2 burn Qurans on Sept. 11, heeding 2 outcry. More details soon on KATU.com. #
  • @LeafandInk Ha ha! so true… ug… @marcustar wrote a good blog entry about this thing! in reply to LeafandInk #
  • @LeafandInk ah ok… 🙂 that was out loud… hehe.. in reply to LeafandInk #
  • @Fanchon hmm… we shall see. Somehow I think his "conversation" might not turn out. in reply to Fanchon #
  • I think it's time I open up a twttr acct 4 my wife, & we need 2 get Google voice, simply b/c the Call Box @ R new aprt wnt call lng distance #
  • "It is not good for man to be alone" why? Seeking both funny and thoughtful commentary. #
  • Going on a spontaneous day trip to Seaside! Picnicking there to save $, today's forecast 70 degrees and mostly sunny. #awesome #beach #

Tweets for the past week

  • On an ice cream relapse run #
  • So ready for a pumpkin spice latte… YES. #
  • Yuck, Barista at Starbucks Governor Hotel – didn't make this pumpkin spice very well at all 🙁 #
  • @marcustar oh but those spendy little stickers help keep the overly-subsidized roads/highways workin'… or something… in reply to marcustar #
  • Know anyone who needs a new desk? We're trying to sell ours – check it out here: http://bit.ly/c6eI64 #
  • Come on people, if you're going to call and ask for help, don't answer your cell phone and "put me on hold" to get your AC fixed! #
  • Praise Jesus we have a place to live! We move in tomorrow! Yikes! Help! #
  • All moved in.. sorta. http://twitpic.com/2lk1tn #