Had a great lunch meeting with Dr. Bob Whitesel today.
He was a great encouragement to me today!
Of course I was a bit in shock when he arrived on his Kawasaki Drifter.
When he is in town (he travels a LOT!), he attends Warsaw Wesleyan. We talked a bit about the IWU Master’s program – of which I now have a bit of sparked interest in.
Good times.
Tomorrow it looks like my buddy Glen Robinson is coming up for an afternoon of fellowship!
This afternoon I finally took some time to build some of our “baby stuff”. We ARE going to have a baby sometime in the next month-ish, so I figured I might as well get a headstart on building the stuff for Baby Sheets!
First up – the stroller!
ta-da!
making progress… then Jess says, “Will that fit through the door to the baby’s room when it’s finished?”
…
that’s a “no” to whether it will fit through the door or not… Now I have to take what I’ve already put together apart and move my work-area to the baby’s room
a couple picture-views on the internet showed me that I was in-fact putting this bad-boy together correctly!
the finished product!
project: COMPLETE
Today is a good day!
This afternoon I received my long-awaited copy of the “Why Should the Devil Have All the Good Music” documentary on DVD. Produced by RIGHTRIGHTRIGHT, the film is NOT a “Christian video”. Actually, it was directed and filmed by two non-Christians.
I found it VERY informative. The interviews with various sub-culture “Christian artists” that are not in the “Christian Mainstream” were very interesting and thought-provoking.
The “bonus footage” of the full-length interviews (some of them), too, were very informative and interesting to watch in their entirety. I was NOT impressed with the “loose tongues” of a few of the artists, though to a secular audience, it probably isn’t even noticed.
I wasn’t impressed, either, with the rocky-filming of the film, though it’s a documentary and wasn’t shot “professionally” by any means.
Contrasting views by various musicians throughout the film leave more questions than answers, too. On one hand we have a musician declaring that there is only ONE truth – Jesus Christ, Son of the Living God – and that He is the only way to Eternal Life in Heaven. And on the other hand we have another musician declaring their belief in God and Jesus, but finding NO correlation to their relationship with Him and their “job” as a musician.
I take this “contrast” as a discussion-starter in my own head (Jess fell asleep halfway through) – and I can see this film causing discussion across “Christian-circles” worldwide, even.
Artists that I was into “back in the day” litter the show-footage as well as interview-footage, like – Larry Norman, Danielson, MxPx, Squad-Five-O, Steve Taylor, and Five Iron Frenzy.
It was an enjoyable, odd-angle look into a scene that I otherwise wouldn’t have had an in-depth interaction with.
It’s 22-minutes long, so don’t even think about watching unless you’re on high-speed, but this is an incredible, historic speech by U2’s Bono.
“Breast is best!”, said tonight’s “lactation nurse” at our final “Prepared Childbirth” class – week 6, for those of you keeping track at home.
She was a bit “charismatic” in her instructional breastfeeding techniques. I’m pretty sure I’ve never heard the words “boob” and “nipple” so much in my entire life – and for that matter, I’ve never seen so many “boobs” or “nipples”, either! (yes, we watched a good 30-minutes of breastfeeding video, too)
We did learn an awful lot tonight, despite the “dirty studyhall” feel to tonight’s class. I’m again amazed at just how incredible our God is for creating such a thing as human life and for providing all the needs for a baby right there from the mother!
Some interesting “points” from tonight –
I’m sure all of you who read through that list REALLY wanted to know each of those, too.
I never thought we’d be finished with these “Prepared Childbirth” classes – 6-weeks ago seems like FOREVER ago – again just reminding me about just how quickly Baby Sheets is going to be sharing this home with us!
I can’t wait!
