July 23, 2004
New Niece Pictures!!
Damon just sent me some pictures . . . here's Kate! She's so tiny and she's such a pretty baby! I'm sure you'll agree . . .
July 19, 2004
New Niece!!
Kathryn Elise Amato
was born to Damon and Kari Amato July 15th, 2004. Damon and Kari are calling her Kate. She's 6lbs 9oz and healthy! I'll be spoiling her when I get back to South Carolina this fall! My brother Damon's a dad! Whoa . . .
She's the first girl grandchild in my family. My sister Janessa has a little boy, Elias (4), and my other brother Jarod has a little boy, Colin (11 mos.).
July 09, 2004
Kam is engaged!
My sister Kamarie is officially engaged to Drew. Here are some of the pics she sent me.
Kam and Drew are in South Carolina. The wedding date is October 8th this fall!
Drew and Kam at the beach
July 01, 2004
Some Favorite Pictures
It's the Hershey Hug couple! These are some of our favorite pics from when we started dating to current . . . we like to take the picture ourselves as you will see from all the up close ones . . .
At Brian's Dating Outing, the day after we officially started dating. This is Brian's favorite.
Hiking at Tablerock park, Apr. 04.
The day before Brian left for Guam, May 30, 2004.
He's Talking About . . .
The title of the chapter where the previous poem is found is "God Incomprehensible." I pulled the poem from the following passage:
He shows Himself not to reason but to faith and love. Faith is the organ of knowledge, and love an organ of experience. God came to us in the incarnation; in atonement He reconciled us to Himself, and by faith and love we enter and lay hold on Him.
"Verily God is of infinite greatness," says Christ's enraptured troubadour, Richard Rolle; "more than we can think; . . . unknowable by created things; and can never be comprehended by us as He is in Himself. But even here and now, whenever the heart begins to burn with a desire for God, she is made able to receive the uncreated light and, inspired and fulfilled by the gifts of the Holy Ghost, she tastes the joys of heaven. She transcends all visible things and is raised to the sweetness of eternal life. . . . Herein truly is perfect love; when all the intent of the mind, all the secret working of the heart, is lifted up into the love of God."
That God can be known by the soul in tender personal experience while remaining infinitely aloof from the curious eyes of reason constitutes a paradox best described as
Darkness to the intellect
But sunshine to the heart
Frederick W. Faber
From "The Knowledge of the Holy" by AW Tozer (c) 1961.