Someone help me out here?

Just a little conversation starter. It's probably way too vague for passers-by to really know where I'm coming from, but it's a start.

Been frustrated lately. The Bible is full of obvious miracles, God speaking to people... a direct, personal, undeniable(to those that experience it,) physical presence. Fast-forward to today: I'm stuck in the same-old day to day grind, repeatedly falling into the same old struggles. There are no amazing miracles or mystical godly presence in my life, and how can I distinguish coincidence from "God's working"? People tell me that God works differently now, that he works behind the scenes, and that the Bible, logic, and a little faith is all that we need, but I can't see the parallel between Biblical times and this inactive daily grind. Has God left us to mostly fend for ourselves for a few thousand years between Jesus and the Rapture? Bah- a single "Paul's Conversion" moment could answer so many of my doubts. What is God up to?

Anyway, despite my above grumpiness, Merry Christmas!

It was a good idea at the time...

...I thought that since I needed to make dinner rolls for a get-together tonight, I would make them from scratch- flour, eggs, yeast, etc. Good idea, but poor execution. In two words: hard tack. I gotta work on that a little more...

Not dead, just quiet

Oh yeah, I have a blog, don't I? Besides using it for picture posts and online info storage, I'm about ready to drop the whole blog altogether. If you need to get in touch, leave a comment and I'll find it eventually. There's an impromptu Monday bordom-beater party going on upstairs, but I'm too tired to join in and it's too loud to go to bed. 'Nite!

Overlooking the water gap 

Looking down on Harper's Ferry 

Bridge pylons in the Shenandoah