We had a snow day today!

Robert Graham woke us up this morning, like most mornings, with his characteristic grunts and cooing. He's happy in the mornings, and likes to lay in his crib and grin at whoever is looking at him at the moment. This morning, it was Dad (me) who got the sequential smiles! I usually peek out the blinds to see the booming neighborhood of Tyner, and this morning we had a surprise -- snow! It was coming down pretty steadily -- big snowflakes, ones that were large enough that when we took Robert Graham outside in his snowsuit one actually covered his eyelid... If we'd been out there longer, I think I might have tried to throw a snowball at Kara.

So that was our morning, followed by hot coffee and French toast for breakfast. Then Kara and I read some of Grudem's Systematic Theology while I was beginning my study for the day (I'm preaching through 1 Timothy right now, and will be in 2:3-5 for our AM & PM services on Sunday). So I'm brushing up on the atonement and Christology right now. This has been a good day, and it's Robert Graham's 3-month-old "birthday" today, to boot!

Our love to you all!

Try to do better

Kara is going to try her hardest at keeping this more up-to-date, but I'm not going to promise anything!!! You can visit our newest blog though @ lilbobblog.blogspot.com

Piper!

Kara's First Blog on this site...

So, here I go...

My main fear right now, and watch out guys if you read this... getting emotional because, guess what? I'm woman! So, my main fear is that I will never see my friends again when we move really far away from Louisville, from home, from constants that are in my life. I really love my church and my friends that I've made here at Southern...

Anyway, the year is finally coming to a close and I hope and pray to give my resignation soon! Argh... I need to save my job if I'll be coming back to it, but if not, I would love to quit and stay home with our babyones. (Piper is our dog, he's my babyone as well...)

The first post...

Okay, so we're new to the blogging thing. But hey, we figured we'd get around to it one day. We're looking forward to welcoming Robert, probably sometime in September. And to my graduation, which is a little more certain as to the date (this Friday). Whatever comes next is in God's hands.

I'm a Christian by God's sovereign grace, a minister by God's sovereign calling, a seminarian by the somewhat-more-tangible, quasi-sovereign mercy of my professors, a former secondary ed. English & Bible teacher (funny how the tables turn!), a former salesman (cell phones, furniture, and even shoes), a former bricklayer, a former athlete (though I wasn't very good), and a sometimes guitarist. I'm the husband of my one and only wife Kara, who has put up with me in wedded bliss for a little over 7 1/2 years.

Kara teaches 9th grade English to kids who don't really want to be in class. They'd much rather be mucking out the stalls or chasing cattle or shooting skunks that wander into the coon trap in the barn. But she's adapted admirably; she has a marvelous country accent that she turn on and off quicker than you shake a stick. Yeah, for a Florida gal, she's got the hick thing down.

Kara has been bugging me to blog for some time now. I'll try my hand here and see how I like it. I enjoy writing and computers (so long as the computer works, which is often questionable around our house), so it does make some sense to marry the two. We'll use this blog to document what's going on in our house and to reflect on the fun, the crazy, the mundane, and -- as God teaches us each day -- the things He shows us in the Scriptures.

If you're stopping by, thanks. Our prayer is that you see the greatness of God and His glory shining in the face of Jesus.

Reagan