Archive for November, 2008
In Ward
Sunday, November 23rd, 2008 | Uncategorized | No Comments
For the past year I have struggled on and off with anxiety and mild depression (yeah, this is Joseph, and yes this is true). Being a man of deep faith, I have begged to God to take this pain away from me, this constant worry, this feeling of dread and hopelessness. The past month has been just about the most difficult yet. I have felt as if God was far away, or not listening to my cries. It is indeed a difficult place to be, when your spiritual confidence has taken a beating.
Tonight I was thinking about the story of Naaman from 2 Kings 5. Naaman was a great soldier, and well respected by his king (the king of Aram), but he was a leper. He went to the king of Israel because he heard he could be healed by a prophet, then Elisha told him to wash in the Joradan River seven times. He thought the idea was rediculous and was about to go back to Aram when his servants encouraged him saying:
“had the prophet told you to do some great thing, would you not have done it? How much more then, when he says to you, ‘Wash, and be clean’?”
He washed in the Jordan and was healed.
His healing was from his act of faith — but to wash seven times. If he had washed 2 or 3 times, gotten fed up and left, he would not have been healed.
I believe that God is making me stronger through my suffering, or calling me to trust in him, to depend on him. I have not dipped seven times in the river.
I am not through with this pain, because I have not learned what it is he wants to teach me. Not yet.
Links to Follow: The story of Naaman | Streams in the Desert Article
Times they are a changin’
Friday, November 14th, 2008 | Family, site updates | 1 Comment
I had an embedded video of hannah up here, but like the last one, I took it down. Until I get stuff straightened out, it just causes the page to load too slow. Email me an I’ll send you a download link.
Our Flickr account is created, it’s linked over there ——>
Freaking Finally.
Wednesday, November 12th, 2008 | Uncategorized | No Comments
So, for literally 2 years, I’ve been saying that I was going to get a new computer, but I kept putting it off (I hate spending money). Finally, the time came, and I bit the bullet and purchased a new computer, and it came today.
So I’m pretty excited. The only thing that’s kind of strange is that it has Windows Vista, which at first I wasn’t liking…and I still don’t know how I feel about it, but after changing some quick settings, it doesn’t appear to be much different than XP. We’ll see, but anyway, I have a new computer and I’m freakin’ stoked. It’s fast enough to do anything I want to do, and that’s awesome.