milestones

Soon & Very Soon

Well it’s been a long time since I posted last, and that’s due in part to some grandiose plans I have for this space, but just to keep you mildly updated, we are getting married and it is really soon! November 14th. We can’t wait to have our friends and family around and take the plunge together.

That sounds somewhat terrifying—take the plunge—and even just plunge in general sounds a little awkward. But you know what I realized? Most of the language we use regularly has violent connotations. Like e.g. “you know what struck me?” Haha, I hope nothing strikes you, but it’s funny you always speak that way…you! Or what about “falling in love”, “madly in love”, “crazy for you”, “dying to be with you”. Who’s falling, mad, crazy, or dying? It’s a silly language we have, and a silly world we live in. Regardless, the plunge is a good thing. I’m going to call it the really-sweet-free-as-a-feather-floating-through-the-clouds-experience instead.

Cheers.

09.18.2009 - This is [going to be {a part of}] our world

Blogging is really cool. I’ve always envied people who are good at it and also good at doing it regularly. Blogging takes time. Cool things take time. I wonder if there’s anything cool that doesn’t take time and attention. If there is, it’s probably not that cool.

This space is ours. Micah Thomas and Jessica King. We are getting ready to join our lives up together here in a few months. [Click here for more details.] We want to share with our friends what’s going on in our lives. We want to think about things here, to try things out here, to ask for help, and to offer help. We want to stay connected.

I’m becoming increasingly aware of the difficulty and value involved in staying in touch with people. You see (you know) people are our lives. We need people. And as I have been experiencing lately, life trends toward further complexity as time passes. It’s funny to think in junior high how incredibly stressful life is, and how real that feels. Then to think about how much the ante is upped in high school and how much more there is to worry about (how could there be more?!) Well then college rolls around and blows all of that up. The situations, feelings, problems, joys, and decisions are all so much weightier!

I’ve been out of college for almost 2 years now and I’m here to say, this thing, this busy-ness, complexity, whatever it is, just keeps increasing. It’s not bad. It’s actually in large part good. And it is life. And it is something I am responding to in this 21st century sort of way. Blog it up baby! In the midst of this complexity and busyness, Jessica and I desire to mark the milestones of God’s love, providence, compassion, and work in our lives. Psalm 25 talks about this a bit. The Message translation refers to these things as milestones and the psalmist asks God to mark these milestones that He might be praised. We hope to do that a bit here. We hope you’ll be around with us some and help encourage us and challenge us along the way.