I'm not one to cry at movies or dramas, but this one struck me hard. My thanks to Lauren for sharing it with us.
Keep Soaring,
B
Friday, August 14, 2009
Friday, August 7, 2009
Update on the life and times of the Boykins....
So we've been in Fort Worth for just over two months now. We're finally starting to find a place for everything so that we don't have boxes packed ceiling high everywhere. The only thing really left to unpack is a few boxes of pictures here and there. But I'm not really worried about that....Mandy already has the big stuff up.
I start Seminary in a few weeks. Had a very weak moment yesterday. I opened up my recently purchased Greek New Testament and saw what looked to my mind to be chicken scratch scribbled across the page. I panicked, quite certain that there was no way I could handle this. Thankfully, Mandy was there. And after holding me a little while, she helped me get a start by working with me on memorizing the Greek Alphabet:
Get ready....GO!!! Alpha beta gamma delta zeta eta theta iota kappa lamda mu nu xi omicron pi rho sigma tau phi chi psi omega!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Wait let me check.......darnit!! Forgot Epsilon......ah well.....work in progress.
Mandy continues her journey as nurse at Plaza Medical Center. It's weighing on her a little. The past few days she's worked, she's had to stay an hour over to get all her work done. I shutter to think what kind of job has so much to do that a 12 hour shift isn't long enough to do everything. The woman is a warrior. She's hard on herself right now, but with time she's gonna get better at this. I'd ask that you pray for strength and endurance for her as she tries to do everything. And confidence, too. She needs to see herself as her Father in Heaven sees her, not as her Accuser would have her be seen.
In-laws are stopping in on their trip home from Canada tomorrow. Glad they had fun and that they made it back safe. Btw, Skype is an extremely fun and cheap way to communicate with friends and loved ones far away. Check it out.
Keep praying for the family of Flint Smith. The funeral for his brother was this week, though I'm sure the sting of his death remains. Pray for peace for the family and strength for Flint.
Working on a new project called Faith Noir. As Dustin so adequately put it, "It's like Sin City meets The Shack." It's my first venture into crime comics, so it'll be interesting.
Not much on the teaching side in this post....but regardless, feel free to comment or ask questions. I'm always here.
Keep Soaring,
B
I start Seminary in a few weeks. Had a very weak moment yesterday. I opened up my recently purchased Greek New Testament and saw what looked to my mind to be chicken scratch scribbled across the page. I panicked, quite certain that there was no way I could handle this. Thankfully, Mandy was there. And after holding me a little while, she helped me get a start by working with me on memorizing the Greek Alphabet:
Get ready....GO!!! Alpha beta gamma delta zeta eta theta iota kappa lamda mu nu xi omicron pi rho sigma tau phi chi psi omega!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Wait let me check.......darnit!! Forgot Epsilon......ah well.....work in progress.
Mandy continues her journey as nurse at Plaza Medical Center. It's weighing on her a little. The past few days she's worked, she's had to stay an hour over to get all her work done. I shutter to think what kind of job has so much to do that a 12 hour shift isn't long enough to do everything. The woman is a warrior. She's hard on herself right now, but with time she's gonna get better at this. I'd ask that you pray for strength and endurance for her as she tries to do everything. And confidence, too. She needs to see herself as her Father in Heaven sees her, not as her Accuser would have her be seen.
In-laws are stopping in on their trip home from Canada tomorrow. Glad they had fun and that they made it back safe. Btw, Skype is an extremely fun and cheap way to communicate with friends and loved ones far away. Check it out.
Keep praying for the family of Flint Smith. The funeral for his brother was this week, though I'm sure the sting of his death remains. Pray for peace for the family and strength for Flint.
Working on a new project called Faith Noir. As Dustin so adequately put it, "It's like Sin City meets The Shack." It's my first venture into crime comics, so it'll be interesting.
Not much on the teaching side in this post....but regardless, feel free to comment or ask questions. I'm always here.
Keep Soaring,
B
Saturday, August 1, 2009
Pray for Flint Smith....
Flint Smith is a guy from my old lifegroup at First West in West Monroe. As I type this message, he and his parents are making a long trek to Houston from West Monroe to see his now-dead brother. They started while he was still alive, hoping to make it there before he passed. They didn't.
I ask that you pray for comfort and safety as they travel. It must be emotionally exhausting to have to make so far of a drive knowing something horrible is waiting for you on the other end of it. Flint is a strong man with a heart for the LORD like none other. He is going to need a lot of support now. Please send it to him through your prayers.
When I started this blog, I promised that I wouldn't sugar coat, that I would always be open and honest about what I believed and about what the Bible says. And the Bible says that regardless of circumstances, God is good. Even when He doesn't give us the answer we want, God is good.
And I believe that, I really do. All of the teaching I've had, all of the men I have sat under and learned from....they all have ingrained that into my soul, to the point that even in the wildest of rages I cannot help but admit that God is good.
I know you are good. Every piece of my heart that now breaks for my brother Flint knows that. And in this time of sorrow for him, you are the only sure thing that he has. So, please, be there for him. He's making a journey now that a weaker man could not do. Go with him, hold him like a father holds his child, and speak to him the words that will give him strength for the days ahead. Carry him, as you have carried others before. Give him the grace he needs to endure this storm.
And where our futile minds cannot make sense of these things that you have allowed to happen, give us the faith to trust in what we cannot understand.
Brothers and sisters, what prayers you may utter tonight, let them speak of Flint Smith and his family. This titan of faith now walks on shaken ground, and more than anything he needs his God and his spiritual family. God is with him already. Let us be with him, too.
Keep Soaring,
B
I ask that you pray for comfort and safety as they travel. It must be emotionally exhausting to have to make so far of a drive knowing something horrible is waiting for you on the other end of it. Flint is a strong man with a heart for the LORD like none other. He is going to need a lot of support now. Please send it to him through your prayers.
When I started this blog, I promised that I wouldn't sugar coat, that I would always be open and honest about what I believed and about what the Bible says. And the Bible says that regardless of circumstances, God is good. Even when He doesn't give us the answer we want, God is good.
And I believe that, I really do. All of the teaching I've had, all of the men I have sat under and learned from....they all have ingrained that into my soul, to the point that even in the wildest of rages I cannot help but admit that God is good.
I know you are good. Every piece of my heart that now breaks for my brother Flint knows that. And in this time of sorrow for him, you are the only sure thing that he has. So, please, be there for him. He's making a journey now that a weaker man could not do. Go with him, hold him like a father holds his child, and speak to him the words that will give him strength for the days ahead. Carry him, as you have carried others before. Give him the grace he needs to endure this storm.
And where our futile minds cannot make sense of these things that you have allowed to happen, give us the faith to trust in what we cannot understand.
Brothers and sisters, what prayers you may utter tonight, let them speak of Flint Smith and his family. This titan of faith now walks on shaken ground, and more than anything he needs his God and his spiritual family. God is with him already. Let us be with him, too.
Keep Soaring,
B
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