seven months of changes.

It has officially been seven months since the last posting on this blog. Oops. In my defense, there has been a lot going on:

1) New job at Guardian Life Insurance- my grant was running out at the Conference, and while I miss the work and the people, I needed to pay the bills. Thankful that God provided a place of employment. This job keeps me very busy with not a whole lot of flexibility- making posting tough.

2) Christmas/Birthday- December is always super busy. Holidays, parties, shopping, decorating, family time.

3) We had a baby! Levi Emory Knepp was born February 26th. Had a lot to do to finish up his room etc. and now that he is here, it has taken a while to adjust to life with 2 boys. He is very laid back and already sleeps better than Jonathan does now, but still does not leave a whole lot of time for posting.

The long and short of it is, that life will hopefully always take priority over this blog. It is not that I don't appreciate all three people who read it, but when it comes down to it, changes are inevitable and sometimes it takes a while to adjust to them. My hope is to be able to post something once a week or so, but I'd wait to see that to believe it. Until next time (maybe).

complexity.

As I listen to the economic stimulus ideas being put forward by both sides of the aisle, I am amazed.  Sometimes the amazement comes from the obscene amount of money that the government wants to spend, other times I am astonished by the lack of sympathy that people can exhibit.  But either idea, one thing is for certain, their is great complexity to what is being proposed.  The second you make one change, it starts the process of changing ten others, and if you do not look down the line, your actions can have totally unintended consequences.  Life is always complicated and complex and I am thankful that I can be part of a community that recognizes the complexity of life.  More so, I am thankful that Christianity (at least Biblical Christianity) addresses the complexity of life.   

I wish life wasn't as complex as it is, but at least I don't have to decide how to spend 800 billion dollars.