From my worldview class I’m currently taking, one of the required texts is “Searching for God Knows What” by Donald Miller. In the second chapter, he wonderfully describes how Santa was destroyed in his youth. I think we all have a moment in our youths where a part of our innocence is lost.
My boss at work has an adorable little girl who’s about to turn one. She’s recently started to walk and she’s fun to watch. She’s not people shy and gets excited easily. It’ll be great fun when she starts to talk.
On two occasions, Jenni has gotten the opportunity to babysit Elsie while her mom and dad had a meeting. Jenni and Elsie would hang out at the Vernier Gym at my workplace, playing with pilates balls, basketballs, and her own stroller. In this picture, she was enjoying her macaroni. I like this picture because it captures her heightened awareness of the world around her.
Lately, when my mom has come and visited me, she’s brought some neat videos from an organization called Answers in Genesis.
The world is becoming a huge photo album of pictures from everyone’s digital cameras. I almost think that digital photography is as everyday as blogging. It’s been amazing how low the prices have gone for a good digital camera, and now the skills of an amateur photographer isn’t hindered because their wallet isn’t as deep as the professionals. So now, we all have tons of digital photographs, what do we do with them?
As you can read in David’s post, BridgeTown Swing 2005 was very memorable for us. The week before, I honestly had no idea if I would be able to dance at all. (My story explains my situation a little more.) I was pretty much bed ridden all of Labor Day Weekend until Wednesday. As we headed towards the airport I asked David if I was supposed to feel like my body has been through a whole dance event before even going.
“The Lims had a very good weekend.” – Grace Killelea, BridgeTown 2005 M.C.
The last story in C. S. Lewis’ Chronicles of Narnia is called The Last Battle. It starts out with a talking ape named Shift, and a talking donkey named Puzzle. Shift is very clever and Puzzle is not so clever and he is pretty much the ape’s slave, doing everything he tells him to. They find a dead lion, and Shift takes the skin of it and puts it on Puzzle to make him look like Aslan from a distance. Shift acts as Aslan’s mouthpiece and starts ordering the talking beasts to clear the forests alongside Calormen solders that have been sneaking to the north a few at a time. When the last king on Narnia, Tirian, and his best friend, Jewel the unicorn, find out that the nyads and dryads (the living souls of the trees) are being murdered, they fly out in a hastened rage to find out who is to blame. When they hear that Aslan is the one ordering such terrible acts, they find themselves at a loss as to what to do.
The next to last story is called The Silver Chair. It starts out with Eustace finding his friend, Jill, crying because the school bullies are picking on her. At their school, the Experiment House, the people who ran it thought that kids “should be allowed to do what they liked,” and unfortunately there were a group of kids who did horrible things and picked on other kids mercilessly. Instead of getting expelled, they were talked to by the Head who didn’t punish them but treated the situations as “interesting psychological cases.” Well, it is in the middle of chase from the bullies that Eustace and Jill are taken from the Experiment House to a tremendous cliff in the other world. It is there that Jill receives a task from Aslan:
The next story, called The Dawn Treader, involves the two youngest Pevensie children, Edmund and Lucy, and their cousin Eustace. Eustace is an odd child who goes to a school called the Experiment House, and he calls his mom and dad by their first names. He’s rather obnoxious and he proves to be even more of a nuisance when he and his cousins are pulled into Narnia where he’s exposed to talking beasts for the first time. They find themselves thrown in the ocean, and rescued by King Caspian and his crew on the Dawn Treader.
The next book in C.S. Lewis’ series is Prince Caspian. In this story, Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy Pevensie find themselves being drawn back into Narnia to find their old home, the castle of Cair Paravel, in ruins. Narnian years work differently than time in our world, so that many hundreds of years have passed when only a year has passed in the Pevensie’s world. They meet a dwarf who starts telling them the story of Prince Caspian and the danger he’s in.