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she's way outnumbered

Arrival

Trey will have me late night blogging again... our first night at home and it feels good. Kerri is recovering well and all Riley wants to do is hold/love/kiss/poke/squeeze... baby Trey. I want nothing more this Christmas than family and Christ's presence. I am a rich man tonight.

Trey Ryan Stetler

last night Kerri's water broke... 12 hours later Trey Ryan entered the world.
8lbs.7oz.
20 3/4 in long
born on 12-16 @ 11:38am

he's beautiful.

dig a little deeper

today's daily dig had some potent material re: advent | future | hope

The expectation of that which is to come is as all-embracing as it is unshakably certain; it cannot be a passive waiting, a sweet, soft occupation with self and one's small circle of like-minded friends. No; true expectation is divine power. It means uniting with the powers of the future. It means an inward merging with the character of the future world. This hope in what is coming brings the assurance that the social justice of the future, the purity of heart and divine fellowship of the future, is effective now wherever Jesus himself holds sway. The expectation of the future means power which is present. -Eberhard Arnold

advent 2c

looking forward to some divine reading with a few friends tonight... passages taken from the lectionary

waiting

kerri is so ready to be done with pregnancy... she "can't wait"... but she has to.
so much like the "time that is coming and that has already come."
so we wait.