Going Home

Well, I leave for the airport in a few minutes.

I thought I should write a quick note to let all of you faithful blog readers know that I survived my first semester up here in the frigid north. It was difficult at times, but good overall. It can be quite taxing being in a new place with new responsibilities, but I am slowly continuing to get setlled and plugged into the community here. Overall I am encouraged, but in need of some rest and rejuvination.

I'll be flying in to Portland today to spend Christmas with family before heading up to Seattle to ring in the New Year with my brother.

I hope that you are all well, and that you have a blessed Christmas.


"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning. Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. In him was life, and that life was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness, but the darkness has not understood it.

There came a man who was sent from God; his name was John. He came as a witness to testify concerning that light, so that through him all men might believe. He himself was not the light; he came only as a witness to the light. The true light that gives light to every man was coming into the world.

He was in the world, and though the world was made through him, the world did not recognize him. He came to that which was his own, but his own did not receive him. Yet to all who received him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God — children born not of natural descent, nor of human decision or a husband's will, but born of God.

The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the One and Only, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth."

John 1:1-14