cruise pictures

Hi everyone...

Cruise pictures are available on my facebook. We had a very good time.

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Be blessed,

Jason

Kate and I went down the Rhine a few weeks ago... spent the night, took a ferry for the most scenic part and it was a good time. On the way, we ran into a country wide, week long motorcycle rally which is a story in itself. They had the road blocked off... so, we detoured and ended up right in the middle of the rally (read: the only car in a mass of Harley's). After a nice little delay, lots of evil looks, and Germans who absolutely wouldn't get out of the way (we were absolutely not supposed to be there) we got to our destination and had a really good time.

If you're reading this, please pray for my Grandma. She is in the hospital and things are looking better but things can change so unexpectedly.

Our cruise starts on FRI.

Be blessed,

Jason

Friday date night...

got to see Anathallo last night in Nuremberg 

Have a blessed weekend,

Jason

we lose something far greater in ourselves...

"When you start to close the door on anybody, the doors close on everybody"

Howard Behar

quote

"As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others."

Nelson Mandela

pictures for last two trips, other random things...

Man.

Lots of stuff going on/happening... but I feel good about where we are.  I will be a parent soon but I feel relatively anxious free, calm, and a subtle excitement that I presume will become a crescendo as the pregnancy progresses.

I say all of this tongue and cheek because it’s one of the awesome things about being here... but one of the things I would like to illustrate in this post is that the Germans are strange.  I mean, you should see some of the running and biking gear these cats wear- SCARY to put it nicely.  That is the strange thing though- its strangely accepted with little awareness that it is so frightening.  Its cool that there is that kind of freedom here (but it is a little rough on the eyes sometimes).

The following pictures are from Regensburg (pop. 131,000, situated along the Danube, 1.20 hr SE by car) and Weissenburg (pop. 13,000, 35 min. SE by car).  

entrance to the Alstadt (city center) of Weissenburg

Matthew 16:24, written in Latin?... "Then Jesus said to his disciples, "If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me"

random statue

Regensburg- David and Golith motif on restaurant wall

picture is worth a million words...

Regensburg, looking up the Danube

One of the things the Germans get right is ice cream!!!  Hazelnut is my favorite.

big church in Regensburg

weirdness, exhibit A- what the hell is this?

  

be blessed,

Jason

no railroads required...

For another monopoly victory.  I had to grind it out a little but no sweat...A bit more work to do this evening and then the weekend is free.  

"Therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, put on tender mercies, kindness, humility, meekness, longsuffering; bearing with one another, and forgiving one another, if anyone has a complaint against another; even as Christ forgave you, so you also must do.  But above all these things put on love, which is the bond of perfection.  And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to which also you were called in one body; and be thankful.  Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.  And whatever you do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through Him."

Colossians 3:12-16

be blessed,

Jason