No, I really am still alive...

No, I haven't fallen off the face of the earth. I know you were beginning to wonder. Cox Communication still is just not quite sure that they can service our area, whatever that means. Brian, Halie, Caleb and I have moved into the new house... We've been there almost a month, actually. For nearly that entire time, we have not had access to the internet (still don't...I am writing to you from my parents' house in Pace). It's been really nice to not have the net. Nope, that isn't a typo. I have thoroughly enjoyed it. I have read several books including Under the Overpass (a true story about a guy and his friend who decided to live among the nation's homeless population in 5-6 major U.S. cities) and Crazy Love by Francis Chan, a pastor in Semi-Valley, California. BOTH books deserve your attention. =) I have, more importantly, been reading through the Bible this year and have finally caught up with where I need to be with regard to the date and the corresponding passage. I am in Acts right now and really have been caught up in the Gospels and all that Jesus did and said while He was on the planet. More than that, I have begun to pray for an outpouring of His Spirit in my life and in the lives of the people in my church. We desperately need Him. In reading the Gospels and in reading both Under the Overpass and Crazy Love, I have been assaulted with the idea that Jesus explains numerous times in the NT of "whatever you have/have not done to the least of these, you have/have not done it unto Me." Crazy. It's really messed me up (in a fabulous way). More on that another time...I don't have the time to delve deeper with you at present , dear Blogger. I will try and post pictures of the new place soon. I can't guarantee when, though, because I have no stable connection to this "world" of the internet.