I have a few low-quality video-only movies that I took with my camera. I'll try to toss them up on YouTube or elsewhere and link to them on this blog when I do.

Looking south, down the mountain ridge. Hot and humid today - low 90's and barely any wind.

Big Schloss - VA/WV border. Fresh from this afternoon!

Still spinning wheels

I should've been in bed half an hour ago....

I just realized that all those posts I wrote a year ago about struggling with faith are the same struggles I still have now. Talk about a huge rut.

Tin man Syndrome

Here's another way of looking at my troubles following after God. In my mind, I have mentally acknowledged God as my Savior. I have studied the evidence, thought it through, and have accepted that only God could have created the world, ourselves, and our morality. I wholeheartedly believe in the sinfulness of man and that Christ is the only way to once again have God accept us. Trouble is... all that knowledge has never reached my heart. I am thankful, but I do not love God. Following Christ is a necessary duty for me, not a labor of love. It is so extremely difficult for me to love something that I cannot see or talk to. So while I am set in my belief, I am still easily swayed by the flesh. Where do I find the impulse to love God as much as he loves and cares for me?

My younger brothers and myself, back on Nathan's 20th birthday a month ago.

Mr. Benner watches the rest of the crew just downstream of a small ledge.

The action shot - yours truly tackling some minor rapids.

Finally online! Kayaking the Cacapon River last month - near Capon Bridge, West Virginia.

A showering, and my day would be complete.

I turned 25 today - boy, am I ever getting ancient. Today's highlights included:

~Peach cobbler at work this morning!

~Received "Encyclopedia of Christian Apologetics" by Norman Geisler as a present- a massive tome filled with all sorts of good stuff. I'll be having fun there...

~My mother and youngest brother taking me out to dinner at Red Lobster. Mmm... crab.

~The same brother somehow goading me onto the Dance Dance Revolution arcade machine at the mall, and his subsequent defeat at my hands (feet, actually.)

~Coming home to find my roommate trying to shoo a small bat out of our living room. He was soon caught after I brushed it with a shirt and covered it with the same. He was released outside, a bit dazed from the activity.

Finally got the photos from the Kayak trip. More to come tomorrow!