Robb + Jessie Married & in the Badger State
in prayer
hello all.
i am sorry i have taken ages to post something. i am done with school for the quarter and currently training for my job as a meal host at harborview medical center in seattle.
this morning, i was informed that a good friend of robb and eric was in a car accident. for further information, click here. please pray for eric and all of the people involved.
“A righteous man may have many troubles,
but the LORD delivers him from them all.” Psalm 34:19
tonight robb and i are going to see built to spill. it is becoming a tradition.
another weird thing… there is a toilet (non functional) in my room. it’s quite a hoot to call people and tell them i am sitting on my toilet. har har. (my dad is fixing our bathroom!)
i suppose that is all for now.
end of school
So, it’s true. I am completely done with school (with the exception of four finals next week). I couldn’t be happier! This morning I slept in until 8:30 and then woke up and had a big bowl of extremely sugary cereal just because I can!
Then I watched some of the Matrix. That is one of my favourite movies and quite revolutionary when it first came out. However the others went downhill from there, right about the same time that the Wachowski brothers became the Wachowski brother and sister.
I also talked to Jessie this morning. She is superb and making bread at this very moment! She is almost done with school. Only one more quarter left.
After I take a few days off work, I will start up again full-time 40 hours a week. I will keep working in the lab for the next year plus. Then, Lord willing, I will be heading off to graduate school.
For the rest of June I will commute from Redmond, but starting July 1st I will be living with a bunch of guys in an amazing furnished house! It is in the Roosevelt neighborhood on 56th and Brooklyn. I’m very excited for it since it is my first rental home. I already bought a bunch of stuff at IKEA for the house!
Ah, so many cool things happening right now.
P.S. Do you like my new bracelet? Jessie made it for me out of Icelandic wool. She is very nice and sends me a lot of letters and gifts. Swoon.
the marriage bed
I’ve finally finished my last day of class as a college student and what am I thinking about? Sex, of course.
Don’t worry, I’m not breaking any commandments, but I’ve just come off a great church retreat where we discussed (among many other things) sex as Christian men. I think it is truly great that God provided such a pleasing act of oneness for a married couple. (Not to mention, the male sex drive is a great motivation tool to get guys to work hard and romance a wife the honest, righteous way.) However, it seems in large part the church has divided into two camps:
1. Sex is generally bad or looked down upon. Must be done to procreate and perhaps for pleasure, but at least it should never be talked about openly or celebrated.
2. Sex in the Bible is too limiting. Dating couples who are married “in their hearts” can have sex too. Not to mention the Bible writers didn’t know what they were talking about when they invented all those primitive rules about sex. Basically, times have changed.
Neither of those point of views fit with the biblical view of a sacred, covenantal act between a husband and wife that is to be celebrated. And somehow, I ended up a church that doesn’t fit either of those two molds. Mars Hill frankly talks about sex as a glorious creation, celebrated throughout the Bible (especially in the Song of Solomon). I’m glad that at Mars Hill unbiblical, anti-sex doctrines are rejected, while at the same time the gift of sex to married couples is wholly embraced and discussed. Yet, people are so messed and think of infinite new ways to sin that Mars Hill is also very clear about God’s rules for sex. Maybe some day I will be blessed with the covenant of marriage and be able to glorify God through this great oneness. It is truly a wonder to be created in God’s image as relational and loving beings.
For some good articles on the subject, see “Sex is Good” by the Jollyblogger. He also references an older article by Anthony Bradley, a great theologian from the black church tradition and an all around good guy.