Papa B
Archive for September 2008
How hard could it be????
So my wife and I decided that we wanted to do some remodeling on our house. We had been toying with the idea of putting down some new flooring because after seven years and five kids it was time to do something different than the carpet that came with the house. The young man that I mentor offered to help me put some laminate flooring down in my house. We put down about 625 square feet over two days (non-consecutive) and boy does it look good. We found a great deal on Craigs List where it came out to be just $0.89 a square foot.
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- Pulling off the baseboards
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- Finishing up the living room
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- Measure once cut twice
My wife got hooked up with face book over this weekend and not to be out done, I joined too. After getting over the “What’s the point in this?” part it reminded me of something that I observed a few years back.
During my sophomore year of college my older brother (and roommate) dropped out of school and joined the Navy. In one fell swoop I lost a brother, a roommate, and a friend. Our relationship stalled at that point and our memory of each other was locked in that moment in time. That is to say, I remembered him as guy he was in college with me and as the roommate that I would hang out with. I know that is the same for him.
My brother was stationed on the East Coast where he settled after he finished his time in the Navy. Both he and I had returned to a life of faith (which both of us had turned from in college) but we had done so independent of each other. This became obvious to me years later. On one vist, my brother joined me at a Bible study that I was leading. I realized that the comments he made during the study and afterwards to me were based on the assumption that I was the same person he knew in college. I also realized I was making those same assumptions.
So what does that have to do with Facebook? Well, as I traveled back through time to connect with people in my past I realized that they knew me when I was a different person. Would they make the assumption that I am the same man they used to know? Will they read my blog and be agast at what they find? Or will they realize, as I have, that when you come in contact with God in a meaningful way your life is changed.