13 January 2010

Growing Power: Serving






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Growing Power: People

Alex

Marquese

Nick

Steve
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Growing Power, Milwaukee, WI

Today, I visited one of the most beautiful places in Milwaukee: a greenhouse. Well actually, over ten of them. To be here was like I had always been here. And it was a wonderful feeling. The following is my first photo project of the year:




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New Things for New Seasons

My first (in a long time) post for 2010 (and also my 130th post) will be one of lists.

New Things:
1) being married.
2) living in Milwaukee.
3) Hobby of the year: photography

New(er) Things:
1) celebrating my first Christmas as a married man.
2) moving to Chicago.
2) hobby of the year (hopefully): gardening

Things I'm excited about:
1) calling Chicago home.
2) pursuing a theology of land.
3) urban gardening.
4) investing in relationships.

Books I'm hoping to finish by the end of 2010:
1) East of Eden by John Steinbeck
2) The Next Evangelicalism by Soong-Chan Rah
3) Art and Soul by Brand and Chaplin
4) Here and Now by Henri Nouwen
5) The Road by Cormac McCarthy

Films and documentaries worth seeing again (and again):
1) Man on Wire
2) The Garden
3) Flow
4) Food, Inc.
5) Away We Go
6) Precious

Epiphanies:
1) Care and compassion towards others is intrinsically connected to the sense of belovedness which is found in the heart of God and our own embracing of that truth.
2) I thrive on working with my hands and with soil.
3) To trust in God is a most terrifying and most beautiful business to be in.

A picture of a quote I hope to hang on my wall someday: