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Hello all of those out in bloggerville. It is a friday evening and i am sitting on my new porch and sweating a bit outside, but enjoying it anyways. Beautiful monarch's flying around and a slight breeze. I am looking down upon my lovely cherry tomatoes that i have had for a while, and they are coming right along. I acutally was messing around w/ my one red tomatoe and i accidently pulled it off of the vine. So....i ate it! and it was awesome. NOt amazing but not bad either, i enjoyed it and look forward to the rest of its fruit. Well anyways, that is all a side note. Life has been great for me recently. Work has been busy but great to have my brother working in the same office. We are having a great time. God is Good.

So ivan and i moved into a little studio in the lowell neighborhood, which is just a half mile or less from the Pink House (which made for an easy move). Although our space is small, i think that it is all we need. I have had fun w/ some kids around the corner and this place feels much different than the PH. Although it was sad to leave my home of the last 10 months, i think that it was time and was needed. I learned a ton about myself and had some great times wrapping up my emotions from the impace of the PH and i am super happy to have had the experience of that community. God is Good. It has been great to see the Lord's hand on our new adventure and even though we arn't sure how long we will be here, we are sure that we have some sort of season to experience here. I will post some pics of the place sometime, next time i whip out the camera.

I have been reading Velvet Elvis recently and probably have about a quarter left to read. It has been a great read so far. People say that he is crazy, some people say that he is wrong, some right, a bit of everything. I just enjoy reading new perspectives and some great insight to passages. One thing that i read today really has stuck in my head. Let me tell you about it.



He is discussing the Jewish tradition of following a rabbi and how powerful it was that he asked the working class people and the youngsters to be his disciples. Since they are fisherman, it means that they didn't make it to study the rabbi and his yoke, thus were sent to learn the family trade. So continually throughout Jesus' ministry, he is continually dissappointed in their lack of faith in themselves. For example, when Peter sees his rabbi walking on water so what does he chose to do? walk on water of course. When he starts to sink he yells for Jesus to save him. Jesus says "you of little faith, why did u doubt?" the point that Bell makes is What does Peter lose faith in? not jesus but himself, he loses the faith that he can do what his rabbi is doing. Rob Bell continues on with the idea that "God has an incredibly high view of people. God believes that people are capable of amazing things" (pg 134). It is a powerful message that God knows that we love him and wants us to trust him with our lives, but we chose not to believe and live it out. As Bell ends the chapter

"The rabbi thinks we can be like him."

What do you think about this? it keeps me encouraged, b/c i tend to not count him in on everything.

So what else is new? I am going to bako on sunday to see kimberly and hang out w/ the family for a few days. that will be FUN, and what is my big news for the next week!?!? TPH 2008. what is that you might ask? Tom freaking Petty at the Hollywood Bowl on wednesday! It has been a long time awaiting. I think that we bought our tickets on the superbowl sunday. My life is going to be that more complete i think. It should be a great time w/ Jeremy, Dave, Elliott, and Everett. Anyways, we are super excited. So that is all for now. Love and Peace for now!