Moving Moments

You have these? These moments that move you to tears, smiles, rushes of emotion, or extreme joy. I think they are such fantastic moments. They come rather instantly and carry you for quite a time.

Perhaps it comes while driving down the highway and into a sunset.

Maybe it hits you while you are in a conversation with old friends.

Or what if it comes while at the greatest sporting event you've been to?

I think these moments become all the more powerful when paired with the iPod generation. When we walk down the street with music in our ears as a soundtrack to our life, I think it adds another moving dimension to the experiences.

Many a time have I been driving and felt another dimension of awesomeness as a song I was listening to struck me in the right way.

Recently I've had the pleasure of really enjoying these experiences. They are really a blessing and I think especially for a person such a myself that appreciates the beauty in music, I see God touching me in these times.

How about you?

Meme'd

OK, so Ben did this thing...

and I feel obliged to keep it going, mostly because I happened to have a book on hand...

Pick up the nearest book of 123 pages or more.
Find Page 123.
Skip the first 5 sentences.
Post the next 3 sentences.
Tag 5 people (if you want, I don’t care).

Documents of the Christian Church: Edited by Henry Bettenson & Chris Maunder

...We acknowledge, as we are bound, that the right and authority to elect a king (later to be elevated to the Imperial throne) belongs to those princes to whom it is known to belong by right and ancient custom; especially as this right and authority came to them from the Apostolic See, which transferred the Empire from the Greeks to the Germans in the person of Charles the Great. But the princes should recognize, and assuredly do recognize, that the right and authority to examine the person so elected king (to be elevated to the Empire) belongs to us who anoint, consecrate and crown him. For it is a generally observed rule that the examination of a person belongs to him who has the duty of the laying-on of hands.

A mouthful...

I think

a) My font is retarded and won't go back to what it was and I don't want to bother with it.

b) This is an odd section of the text. The entire book is a bunch of small sections of documents. This is part of a letter from Pope Innocent III to the Duke of Zahringen about his right to intercede in a matter as the Pope.

I love LOLcats

OK, so they're really stupid, but I can't help but laugh at a good majority of LOLcats. Such a strange internet phenom, so why not catch the fever for a while...


moar funny pictures

A New Season

(Not my Picture)

So today marks Ash Wednesday. Regardless of your faith tradition, this can still be considered an important day in my mind. This day starts the Lenten season which brings us right up against Holy Week and Easter. This 40 day long season of fasting is analogous to Jesus' own 40 days in the desert. While we aren't going to be in the desert, we can foster a spirit of fasting similar to that of a spiritual desert. This is a time period that will be great to use to focus on God and his providence. Now the idea of fasting may seem sad to some, but it is clearly laid out in the history of our churches that times of fasting come before feasting (Easter in this case). As well, Jesus said there would be a time that he would not be there and his followers would fast. That is now...

So, what are you fasting from? Or how are you preparing for the Glorious Resurrection of our Savior King Jesus.

Post Processing

As I have become more and more interested in photography, I have found that I love the entire process. If I just took a picture and left it at that, 80% of the time or so I would say it was totally incomplete. I love the post-processing steps. Drawing out the colors and contrasts that I desire just makes me so happy. I love being able to bring out something that can be considered moving. I really take joy in that. So, when I stumble upon software that can help me, I get super excited. I'm sure many photographer types have heard of Photomatix, but until today, I had not. I am totally sold on it and cannot wait to have the funds to be able to purchase this incredible software package. So basically yea, that's it. I'm totally on a photo kick right now.

Sunset Over the Grass

Sunset Over the Grass, originally uploaded by ahable2.

Bunches of new Flickr photos for me. Check em' out. Comment and tell me what you think. I'd love to get critiques on my pics. :)

Illini Life Videos:

Hey, I want to get YouTube traffic. Shameless YouTube traffic. OK, so actually, I want to just show you my videos that myself and my friends have made this year for iLife.

Night of Man: Myself and Jeff put this guy together to promote a men's night in the fall.



About You Card: Jonathan and I put this together to explain something new in our church.