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Name: Adam
Country: United States
State: Iowa
Metro: Iowa City
Birthday: 2/2/1982
Gender: Male
Interests: coffee/espresso; Detroit Red Wings hockey; Chicago Bears football; University of Michigan football; web & graphic design; the Word; travel; audio/video engineering; Taco Bell; cars; performing / composing / arranging / listening to music
Occupation: Technical Arts Director
Industry: Technology / Media / Arts
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Member Since:
11/10/2005
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Hols and I signed the dotted line...ahem...a LOT of dotted lines. We
have a few more keys on our key rings. And we now "own" a piece of
Earth. I want to celebrate, but, honestly, I'm just tired. Ran around a
lot today to make a lot of things happen...and they DID happen. I guess
I'll celebrate subconsciously with my pillow tonight.
Meantime....HOORAY! :)
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I'm here again - a thousand miles away from You
a broken mess, just scattered pieces of who I am
I tried so hard, thought I could do this on my own
I've lost so much along the way
then I'll see Your face
I know I'm finally Yours
I find everything I thought I lost before
You call my name
I come to You in pieces
so You can make me whole
I've come undone
but You make sense of who I am
like puzzle pieces in Your eye
then I'll see Your face
I know I'm finally Yours
I find everything I thought I lost before
You call my name
I come to You in pieces
so You can make me whole!
I tried so hard! So hard!
I tried so hard!
then I'll see Your face
I know I'm finally Yours
I find everything I thought I lost before
You call my name
I come to You in pieces
so You can make me whole
so You can make me whole
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| Check this out.
GOD creates everything...including mankind, His greatest creation.
Everything is perfect...PERFECT (i.e. "very good" cf. Gen 1.31).
Satan comes along and messes things up, and GOD's greatest creation falls.
::GOD PRESENT TO MAN::
GOD
rebukes the man telling him, "By the sweat of your face, you shall eat
bread, till you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken..."
(Gen 3.19 ESV). In other words man is forced to work extra hard to
survive because GOD had met every provision in the Garden before the
fall. Man's work in the Garden was joyful and enjoyed in the presence
of GOD. But, since man fell in "knowing" sin, access to GOD's
provisions were going to be more work-intensive.
Another perspective.
::MAN PRESENT TO GOD::
Man's
fall from GOD was a result of man acquiring sin, and, thus, GOD could
not be intimate with man (otherwise Holy GOD would "know" sin and cease
to be GOD). Without that intimacy man's knowing GOD becomes more
difficult—man has to "work" to be intimate with GOD (i.e. praying,
animal sacraments, multiple rules/guidelines). Conjunctively, man has
to labor in presenting GOD to others.
Think of it this
way…introducing GOD to someone new in the Garden would've been like
introducing a newborn baby to air. Now, we have
Maybe that's
why church staff has to work so hard to create a weekly environment
wherein GOD is invited so that others can meet Him. There are SO many
variables and aesthetic elements that are pieced together to achieve
this ambiance, and we sometimes work ourselves to the bone to get it
done in hopes that people will disconnect from their world and breathe
the "newborn" air of GOD omni-present. In some ways we have to bring
GOD to the people. Come to think of it…if man hadn’t fallen, the Church
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| This post is nearly verbatim to Holly's most recent post, which features our "new" home. The agreement is in principle...i.e. we have an agreed price with the seller! (How sad is it that I'm so busy that I can't even post my own blogs!?) Pics of the new pad are below.
 Yeah, it's green.  It was previously a sand color in a previous season. Maybe we're buying a house with reptilian paint...didn't see it in the seller's disclosure...hmm...
The patio behind the garage in the backyard. Right now it's a cement slab, but we'd eventually
like to build a full deck that reaches around to the master bedroom (the double window).
We'd remove the double window and put in a slider window for deck access.
 Backyard. Insert golden retriever and frisbee here.
 The patio that needs work.
 Your typical garage with kitchen access.
 Kitchen. Voila.
 Kitchen again.
 The kitchen corner that is our dining "room".
 Living room with wood burning fireplace.
 First bedroom.
 Second bedroom.
 Master bedroom.
 Downstairs family room / great room / rec room / future theater room / wet bar room / SWEET room.
 See above...just without the pool table (it ain't staying unfortunately).
 Downstairs family room / great room / rec room / future theater room / wet bar room / SWEET room + second wood burning fireplace.
 Fourth bedroom downstairs with 3/4 bath.
Hope you enjoyed the tour...through a house that isn't QUITE ours yet...and still with the previous tenant's stuff. Hope even MORE you can enjoy a tour (i.e. a STAY) with us in near future once we're actually moved in.
Till then...it's back to work. Someone mentioned Easter comes this Sunday...
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