Published on
November 30, 2006 in
Life.
People whose lives include frequent internet use do desperate things when they don’t have it…we’ll I did. The other night I needed to make a call to get some things taken care of. And of course the phone that I use to call the States is through the internet. So I needed to get online. There is a café down the street from us that has free internet and it was late enough that it wouldn’t be too crowded and I wouldn’t look like a crazy person talking to my computer. Unfortunately, I was too late and the café was closing. But I needed to get online. So I sat on my skateboard outside of the café in a corner and pulled out my laptop. I had on a hooded sweatshirt and it was cold so I put the hood on. I wondered what the many people who walked by thought. Sitting there with my grey hood on huddled in the corner at 12:30am. I never saw myself at 27 being a full-on internet junkie, but there I was.
Today, after two months of no internet at home, we received the hardware in the mail. So now, there is no more sitting in the right places in our apartment to bum a signal from our neighbors, no more sitting outside of a café (just to be put on hold for 50 minutes) at 1am, no more not being able to do my normal work from home, no more e-mailing people back late…at least I hope all this will continue to be true! I am learning not to put too much faith in things that don’t always work!
Published on
November 25, 2006 in
Life.
Reunited… Sweet Emotion…Celebrate…Yes, I got my computer back from being repaired. Not only was it my computer, but it was just like new…New and Empty. Empty as in my files were all gone. But also new in that all 80gigs of my computer were ready to receive all of my old files from my external hard drive!
Our house is back to having two Macs again. Husband and wife…15″ and 12″…back together. It was cute to see how the 12″ (Jen’s computer) helped nurture her husband (my computer) back to functionality. Ok this is a bit ridiculous, but I am excited to have my computer back.
A few other song titles that come to mind are: In the Waiting Line…Waiting for an Angel…No, the baby has not come yet…but it is like a perpetual Christmas Eve around the Powell apartment. Every night we go to bed with excitement, living in suspense of what the next morning could hold. We also go to bed wondering three things: Will we be able to sleep? How many times will Jen have to get out of bed? and Will today be the baby’s birthday or not?
We’ll keep you updated when the baby does come!
***special report***
Another I thing I might add: If you buy music on iTunes….If you have a digital camera…If you have documents and spreadsheets that are important to you…You must get an external hard drive. You are flirting with the loss of important things…100 bucks may seem like a lot right now, but it’s not near as painful as the loss of pictures, music, and all your documents if your computer crashes. I have this one: Lacie 250GB, and I have a ton of stuff on it…without having this I would have lost nearly all my digital photos from the past 3 years of my life, Hundreds of dollars in music, and all of my document…with it I lost a few albums that could easily be replaced and word documents from the past 3 weeks. Big difference.
Published on
November 19, 2006 in
Life.
Becoming a dad at any minute is really a strange thing. Day after day Jen’s stomach appears ever so slightly bigger. That’s really fun and interesting me…it only means more discomfort for others of us who live here! I don’t know if I’ve fully processed being a parent. Today I was talking to the belly and I told her, “Hello! I’m your daddy! I get to be responsible for helping you be a good person! Hopefully, better than I am!” I think it was at that moment that I realized that at any minute I will be changed for all the rest of my minutes.
Lately, Jen has been having a hard time sleeping…it’s not like she has 6-pound-plus being inside of her or anything moving around at night…and why does our baby like to party already at night! She’s going to be defiant like her mom…I know it…or maybe a deviant like her dad…either way, we are in trouble! Jen not sleeping = me not sleeping. Last night after laying in bed for almost three hours I slammed the back of my head into my pillow trying to make a new nest for my head to sleep in…I was not pleased. I was responsible and went to bed early (for me) and the only gain I had was that I think I lost weight wrestling with the sheets. I woke up once and Jen was gone. I thought that she had just made one of her thousand nightly trips to bathroom. In reality, she was tired and went to sleep on the futon in the other room. When she came back in at 3:30am she woke me up again and I think that I used my head to form another head-nest in my pillow…hoping that it would be more comfortable than the previous one…I knew for certain that it was deeper!
Any minute now I could hear Jen say one of a few things…some lines that run through my head are: My water broke! My stomach is cramping! I think I’m having contractions! Any of these phrases will change my life forever…and that could happen literally any minute.
In life we put build our faith on many different foundations. For some of us it is our faith that we put our faith in. Lately, I’ve seen in my life that I don’t have only one foundation, but other levels of foundation that I lay over the bottom. These are not always bad and they don’t take away from the reality that I do stand on a very strong foundation at the bottom.
Lately, there have been a series of events that have somewhat revealed my pseudo foundations for what they are…not really foundations. Momentum can even build when falling through these layers…it seemed just as I had gotten through one thing another layer fell under that…and so on. I can’t express enough how frustrating this is, but in the end how spiritually liberating the past few weeks have been…to have things in my life put in the appropriate places. In the end, I am standing again firmly on the fact that my only true and consistent foundation is my faith and trust in Christ. Here are some of the questions I’ve been asking myself:
Are my ‘foundations’ a part of life or are they things I use as a substitute for God? (The biggest blessings in our lives can quickly become the biggest idols if we don’t keep first things first.)
What would it feel like if I went through all my self-made foundations and I didn’t have Jesus as my true foundation…but I just used the idea of Him as another fake foundation?
Do I put too much faith in things that really can’t hold the weight?
Should I ever be surprised when the self-made foundations I trust fall through? Aren’t we all just humans in the first place? Do I set myself up to be let down by people by putting standards on them that I would never put on myself?
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