Archive for April, 2003
Powell Legend
Monday, April 14th, 2003If you get an e-mail forwarded to you with a quote from Colin Powell to the Archbishop of Canterbury, know that it is almost accurate. According to Urbanlegends.About.com: Although U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell did utter words similar to the above, he was not in England at the time, nor was he addressing the [...]
A Grief Sanctified
Thursday, April 10th, 2003I got some “feedback” after whining about the counseling class I took last quad. Just to prove that I’m not completely anti-counseling let me say that I am getting a lot out of the grief counseling I’m taking this quad. I read J. I. Packer’s book “A Grief Sanctified” which is a presentation of Richard [...]
Michael Card Visit
Wednesday, April 9th, 2003Michael Card is on campus this week. This is his first visit to Trinity, long overdue if you ask me. I listened to him speak at chapel yesterday and my family (minus the youngest) went to his concert last night. The man is amazing. He’s won many music awards, written a bunch of books (I [...]
Frozen
Wednesday, April 9th, 2003The trees are melting. Monday we got hit with snow and freezing rain. After that the rain turned into a thick mist and the temperature dropped. That left the snow preserved beneath a thin, crisp sheet of ice, protecting against light foot prints. The trees (and my truck!) became encased in crystal. When the sun [...]
‘da Nile
Thursday, April 3rd, 2003Funny, I thought da’ Nile was in Egypt, not Iraq! “If we pretend like the American troops aren’t here…” Updated: 4/5/03