I am so glad that the election is over. Now we can get on with real life.

I followed it till 3:00 AM Tuesday night - kinda threw my body out of whack - still trying to catch up with sleep.

I am not excited about the results - but I would not have been excited the other way either. Let's see what the Republicans can do with the majority that is oh - so coveted.

The truth is my salvation does not come from politics - but from Jesus - and I am learning (and it is giving me great peace) that no matter what happens God can redeem and transform events and circumstances in my life to yield fruitfulness and glory for Him. What great news - maybe that's why it is called the gospel?

I am still reading that child raising book. It is good - I hope that it will revolutionize the way I do parenting. Also today is my son's second birthday. Hard to believe I was in the hospital two years ago with the little man. He has been the biggest blessing to me. I am captured so much of the Father's heart from being a father. I understand (to a small degree) the love as well as the discipline and chastening of the Lord.

Being a father is a gift - and it is one that I pray that I embrace fully and grace-fully.

Our church purchased a building to use for missional and holistic outreach in our community and we are praying about a name to call it ( the building) - we want something that is subversively spiritual and extremely cool and catchy(is it unspiritual to be cool - it seems to be in some quarters). If anyone out there in blogdom has any ideas post a comment here. That is the great thing about the internet and blogging - I feel as though I am connected to (which I guess I am) to the wider world and also to the wider body of Christ.

I am back in town. I lied about blogging again furiously when I got back in town.. sorry.

I have started reading a book about child rearing that I heard about on World Net Daily It is a great book - hard for me because I am realizing a great deal of mistakes I have made - but everything in it definitely resonates with common sense unlike most stuff that is put out there (Dr. Spock or anything that has resulted in our degregated society)

But while I was reading I wondered this - Why is it that Christians who so often advocate the death penalty - tit for tat ... are so soft on their kids whom they proport to love? I guess that the death penalty is more those bad people out there deserve justice - but not my kid. ( don't get me wrong I am not advocating us killing our children but that we should care enough about those we love not to be so soft on them ) While reading this I am realizing why that now that I am an adult I am having to learn obedience and self-control... because I was not taught it as a child by the ones that should have taught it to me. (once again - another caveat I am not blaming everything on my parents - in reality they were not raised as well either... and I am still responsible for my own actions - I just did not learn that until I was an adult.) Clean needle parents beware - if we make excuses for our children's sin then they will too when they get older. ( Clean needle meaning - "My kids are gonna use drugs - its part of growing up - might as well give them a clean needle, or a condom, or birth control or whatever fill in blank .)

More updates from my reading.