We visited Margraten Cemetery today, about 30 minutes from our house. There are 8301 World War II soldiers are buried here. Each of those crosses and stars of David represents about that many more people killed during that war, or 72 million people total. As I imagined what it would feel like to lose one [...]
Archive for May, 2008
Memorial Day
Posted in Life, Uncategorized, tagged Grief, Memorial Day, Netherlands, War on May 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
It’s Not Easy Being Green…
Posted in Environment, tagged cloth diapers, diapers, Environment, family, poverty on May 22, 2008 | 3 Comments »
…but it’s not as quite as hard as we thought it might be. I know it’s not an open-and-shut case as to whether cloth or disposable diapers have a greater overall environmental impact. But for the last year or so, every time I’ve taken the trash out I’ve felt pretty (guilty? convicted? regretful?) about the [...]
Integrity
Posted in Words, tagged core values, family, integrity on May 19, 2008 | 2 Comments »
This is Part 2 of the family values series.
First, there are the obvious implications of integrity: honesty, truthfulness, trustworthiness, faithfulness, etc, all of course extremely admirable traits that we aspire to uphold in ourselves and train our children to attain also. Excellent, if not very original; it is that sense of the word which probably [...]
Happy Birthday Zach Mac
Posted in family, tagged birthday, family, pictures, Zachary on May 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Zachary Malcolm Chastain turned two yesterday. We celebrated today with Shannon’s amazing mango salsa grilled chicken tacos and a lemon Bob the Builder cake. Click here for some more photos of the birthday bash and other recent family shenanigans.
Community
Posted in Words, tagged church, community, core values, family, mission on May 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This is the long-delayed Part 1 of the family values series.
In a sense, I feel like I’ve already blogged about this value after writing my Wordplay review. I think I’m just spring-loaded to focus on community. When Shannon and I started discussing our core values, this is the one that immediately sprang to my mind [...]
iTunes Playlist Contest – Winner #3
Posted in Music, tagged culture, iTunes Contest, Music, Youth Ministry on May 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
California Dreaming 2004 (remix) by Benny Benassi
Mr. Brightside (Jaques lu Cont’s remix) By The Killers
Rooftops by Lost Prophets
3’s and 7’s by Queens of the Stone Age
Around the World by Daft Punk
Reptillia by The Strokes
One More Time by Daft Punk
Somebody Told Me by The Killers
Tick Tick Boom by The Hives
Dig by Incubus
Helicopter by Bloc Party
What I’ve [...]
