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I would like to update the reading public on the recent events in my life. On May 4 Liz and I graduated from Andrews University. She graduated with her B.S. in Nursing and I graduated with my M.Div. After we graduated we moved out of our duplex in Berrien Springs, Michigan and moved down to Niles, Michigan to live temporarily with the Whites. We wanted to stay until the baby was born and then move down to Texas. On the weekend following graduation I flew down to Texas and attended the Burleson church. I also spent time with the Adams who are members of the Crowley church: the church where I spend most of my time. I was able to rent a house in a subdivision that is developing. The house continued to be worked on while we waited for the baby to be born. We had anticipated that the baby would be born early in June. However as the baby's due date approached we began to worry that the baby would come later than expected. This would have been a problem because we had already told the Te...

Life is full of learning. Lately I have realized the necessity of being intentional. Plants,animals and other organisms have less intentionality built in to their design than humans. Human beings, myself included seem to function most efficiently when we are purposeful. Discovering how to be purposeful is difficult however. This is because we have so many choices to make or to neglect and in addition we are not completely in control of ourselves. Spiritually I find that being intentional can be difficult because it often means that I need to do what I don't want to do. When we look at the tree the tree does not make the decision to do what it does not want to do or for that matter it does not decide to try and do something that it does not know how to do. Natural forces act upon the tree and the tree responds per it's design. Unlike the plant kingdom the animal kingdom responds with choice to the forces of nature. However animals excluding humans do not self evaluate. They are ...