Archive for February, 2006

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Saturday, February 25th, 2006

I Wanna Trip Inside Your Head…

 
…and spend the day there/to hear the words you haven’t said, and see what you might say.
I wanna hear you when you call/do you feel anything at all?
I want to see your thoughts take shape/and walk right out!
Freedom, has the scent, like the top of new-born baby’s head!
The songs are in your eyes/I see them [...]

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Wednesday, February 22nd, 2006

Evolution’s Early Adopter

 
In 10th grade, my sophomore year in high school, I was already a strident proponent for evolution because I thought it supported my atheistic beliefs.
 
People (especially my atheist friends) who have only known me since I became a Christian don’t usually believe that I was really an atheist for a long time. I was.
I [...]

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Tuesday, February 21st, 2006

Find Your Temperament

 
Last night, Katie and I took a test to discover our temperaments on catholicmatch.com.
 
You can take it without registering, though I’m not sure how in-depth your results will be (probably enough to sate your interest). You can also register for free I think. Taking it together with Katie was fun, and then [...]

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Monday, February 20th, 2006

My non-dessert for today

 
Peanut butter + blackberry jam (lots) + dry oatmeal + honey.
 
I’m not sure why I put the dry oatmeal in it, but it feels right for some reason. I like the way it is dry and sticks to everything else when I mix it all around!
 
And at work someone brought in homemade chocolate chips [...]

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Sunday, February 19th, 2006

Miracle of God: The Strip Club Has Been Stopped

 
Alex Bahrami has apparently pulled out of the real estate deal and decided not to build the strip club right down the street from our neighborhood!
 
Mr. Bahrami, I have reason to believe that you read this blog, and I want to tell you that I commend you for changing your mind about building this place [...]

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Sunday, February 19th, 2006

Aunt Tatee

 
Katie’s sister Courtney is married to Fernando, and they have two handsome little boys: Nathan and Adam.
 
Nathan is really cute and calls Katie “Aunt Tatee” (pronounced like TAY-tee). He and I got to play soccer when I visited Katie and her family in New Mexico, and the boy can kick! I have never [...]

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Sunday, February 19th, 2006

Half-Marathon Prayers Answered

 
Can I get an Aggie whoop!? Our Lord gave all three of us the grace to run the Freescale half-marathon today!
 
It was freezing cold throughout the race (at mile 9 the Braker Lane overpass was still icy), and we sat in traffic to get to the start line location for 1 hour and 15 [...]

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Sunday, February 19th, 2006

How Do You Talk To An Angel?

 
My girlfriend, Katie:
Beautiful and brilliant,
Joyful and graceful,
A lovely princess of Heaven
in our Holy Queen’s court.
 

 
“Immaculate Mother, pray for her always and as Queen of Angels protect her from all evil. St. Joseph, I pledge myself to you with assurance that you will obtain the strength, courage, purity, and faith I need to lead her [...]

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Saturday, February 18th, 2006

Half-Marathon Tomorrow

 
Gerardo, Richard, and I are running the Freescale half-marathon tomorrow! It starts at 7 am and is supposed to be freezing-cold with possible icy conditions.
 
My thoughtful and lovely girlfriend already bought me energy gels and gatorade, so all I have to do is run the 13.1 miles by God’s grace. During [...]

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Saturday, February 18th, 2006

Olympics Surprise–the Biathalon Rocks

 
For a long time I have dissed the biathalon event of the winter Olympics.
 
The biathalon is where men combine cross-country skiing with marksmanship, and the juxtaposition of these two sports always struck me as odd, but today Gerardo and I watched the finals of the biathalon, and it was awesome!
 
It came down to the very [...]

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Wednesday, February 15th, 2006

The Greatest Trick the Devil Ever Pulled…

 
…was convincing the world that he didn’t exist.
 
Specifically, why do even we Christians discount that demons and Satan himself attack us? For example, when we are afflicted with evil thoughts that even lead to temptations, isn’t it plausible and even likely that this is a demonic attack?
 
I have explained such things away in the [...]

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Tuesday, February 14th, 2006

Siberia

 
My Russian friend named Alex at work showed me today how beautiful Siberia can be. I always pictured it as a frigid and icy wasteland, but it turns out that much of it is green with grass and forests and villages!
 
The only impressions I had with it were from “Crime and Punishment” and Father [...]

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Monday, February 13th, 2006

Make This Beautiful

 
My dear girlfriend Katie has a really neat way of praying whenever something “bad” happens. She asks the Holy Spirit to “make it beautiful”.
 
Bad things happen to all of us on a regular basis–some not so bad, others very difficult–so this prayer is awesome because it acknowledges the reality that God has allowed it [...]

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Saturday, February 11th, 2006

Little Gifts for Katie

 
When my girlfriend Katie came to the Kresses the first night of her visit, little 3-year-old Jane came running from the living room shouting, “Katie! Katie!” and promptly leaped into Katie’s arms. I was staring in amazed bemusement at her and then at Sharon and Jeff (Jane’s parents) as Jane doesn’t do this with [...]

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Saturday, February 11th, 2006

Scientific Study Becoming More Unscientific By the Day

 
I went to adoration yesterday and was surprised to see Through the Eyes of Jesus back on the table! I thought someone had absconded with it, but if they did, apparently it was just for the day, and they returned it.
 
Then I realized that The Life of St. Joseph was nowhere to be found, [...]

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Thursday, February 9th, 2006

Adoration Scientific Study Has a Data Point!

 
It has been one week since I put out three well-beloved spiritual books on the St. Louis Adoration table and simultaneously commenced a study!
 
I made predictions about how long the books will last, so today I was both surprised and kind of excited to see that one of the books is already gone!
 
“Through the Eyes [...]

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Thursday, February 9th, 2006

All Religions Are the Same, Right?

 
Wrong.
 
If you don’t believe me, you haven’t been watching the news lately and seen the global upheaval from the European newspaper caricatures of Muhammad, or perhaps you have but haven’t yet realized the implications.
 
Christians believe that God commands them to neither murder nor hate their enemies.
Christians believe that God even further commands them to not [...]

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Wednesday, February 8th, 2006

Annunciation Maternity Home Rocks!

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On Monday, Katie and I went to the Annunication Maternity Home in Georgetown (my hometown), and both of us were amazed at how awesome this place is!
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Roxanne, the volunteer director, gave us a tour that lasted about an hour. She first told us how the Home started, and it’s purpose. The [...]

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Monday, February 6th, 2006

Airport Miracle

 
I underestimated the time it would take to get Katie to the airport today, so she could fly home, and we arrived with only about 45 minutes before her flight.
 
If she didn’t have a bag to check, it would have been no problem, but she did have a bag.
If there was a short line at [...]

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Wednesday, February 1st, 2006

The Single Vocation?

 
I recently listened to a podcast on CatholicExchange.com where Mary Beth Bonacci talked about the state (plight?) of Catholic single people searching for their vocation and in particular trying to find their future spouse.
 
During the discussion the question arose of whether there exists a vocation to the single life. Mary Beth quite boldly declares [...]

5 Comments » - Posted in Love and War by Devman