John Eldredge, I knew it!

Once, when my family and I were slalom kayaking between the 17 most ferocious killer whales in the Pacific as they tried desperately to eat us...

http://blog.newsweek.com/blogs/declassified/archive/2009/10/22/feds-crack-down-on-robin-hood-drug-cartel.aspx

No hard feelings, I hope. Just thought it was a smidge funny.

Alive

I am alive. Beneath all the excerpts, I am still here. Maybe soon I'll post something real again. In the meantime--

Come, Thou Fount of every blessing,
Tune my heart to sing Thy grace;

Streams of mercy, never ceasing,
Call for songs of loudest praise.
Teach me some melodious sonnet,
Sung by flaming tongues above.
Praise the mount! I’m fixed upon it,
Mount of Thy redeeming love.

O to grace how great a debtor
Daily I’m constrained to be!
Let Thy goodness, like a fetter,
Bind my wandering heart to Thee.
Prone to wander, Lord, I feel it,
Prone to leave the God I love;
Here’s my heart, O take and seal it,
Seal it for Thy courts above.

Amen and amen.

excerpts, Doubting Thomas, Nickel Creek

"I'm a doubting Thomas, I can't keep my promises, because I dont know what's safe--Oh me of little faith."