the best of the 22 reasons

For Catherin's surprise party, we had people sign a poster of "22 reasons why we love you." Here's the highlight of my day:

"Cos your muscles are bigger than mine. -Joe"

I legitly laughed hysterically for 5 minutes straight when I read that. Hahahahaaha....anyway,

HAPPY 22nd BIRTHDAY CATHERIN!!! :D

にせんきゅうのクラス

I'm slowly realizing more and more just how powerful yet how difficult showing the love of Christ can be... This is a love that is everything 1 Cor 13:4-8 describes. It is a love that doesn't hold on to past hurts, can melt away the hardest exteriors of stone-cold hearts, will trust even when all things point to defeat, has the power to unify even the most unlikely bunch, and most importantly for me now, always hopes and always perseveres.

God, it's so hard to persevere with this kind of love... please renew my hope and my faith that You alone have the power to bring change.

quarterfinalist

WM is a quarterfinalist, baby! WHOO, one step closer... but still many more steps to go.

The next round consists of pitching our idea to to a panel of venture capitalists and entrepreneurs, (next week!) and a final venture summary (due Dec 1st). We find out Dec 9th if we are a semi-finalist candidate, and after submitting a first draft of our full business plan on Feb 20th, we will find out on Feb 25th if we are an official semi-finalist... Many more revisions of the business plan later, finalists are announced on April 17th and then the final pitch-off for the $75,000 is on May 1st...

H'oh crap. I'm nervous. Please pray for us...

*sad face*

Is this what brokenness feels like?

help me believe....

Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.

2 Corinthians 4:16-18