Problem solved

It was the sitemeter...

Uh. I don't know whats up with this blog...

I posted earlier today about this... but for some reason it didn't appear.

The previously posted post was about my post... that is. I found out today that things changed (again). I'm not going to the unit I originally was assigned to. Rather I'm assigned to a brand new unit that is being formed here at Fort Lewis. So I'll be in the states for a couple of years. Most likely. Who knows what tomorrow will hold...

It is not what I had hoped for. But I believe that God knows better than I do what is best.

"Now gird up your loins like a man; I will ask you, and you instruct Me. Will you really annul My judgment? Will you condem Me that you may be justified?" Job 40.7-8

"And I saw heaven opened and behold, a white horse, and He who sat on it is called Faithful and True, and in righteousness He judges and wages war." Rev. 19.11

"The mind of man plans his way, but the Lord directs his steps." Prov. 16.9


(hopefully this will appear...)

Assuming... never a good idea

So I should have suspected it... asked more questions... something. But what it comes down to is that I am currently "up in the air" again concerning which unit I belong to. Fun, fun, fun. So I appreciate your continued prayers.

Also just in: I am very good at wasting my time. Though there are a number of productive things worth doing, I can easily defer them to a later date and instead flush my time down the toilet. Somehow, I don't think God is honored when we have the world at our fingers. All the knowledge we could ever dream of waiting to be revealed to us... and best of all, the Lord of all Creation who calls out to us for as intimate lover who longs to reveal Himself to us... and we/I spend my time watching the water swirl around the commode. I'm sure you're not interested in listening to me rant about my own short comings, so I'll conclude with a challenge. Do something of eternal value today. Try and figure out how you can be more like Jesus today than you were yesterday. Rinse and repeat. Chase after the wild love of your King. Be as brave and noble and consumed with Aslan as Reapacheap. Do the little things you nonsensically dread for the honor of Christ.

Cursory Update

I just found out today that I was in fact switched into a new unit... but then switched back shortly after. So as it stands I will be deploying mid November. Thank you for your prayers concerning the matter and thank you for your prayers concerning my future overseas.

Also in the (Brett)news: my good friend Charlie and I had dinner with a couple here in the Ft. Lewis area tonight that work for Navigators. If that means nothing to you, Navigators is the organization that the ministry in Ft. Benning is associated with, which Charlie and I were a part of during the past year while we were in Georgia.

We had a great time talking over and after dinner. It was very encouraging to find that there are certainly people here that have the same vision for discipleship in the example of Christ in daily life. Indeed, they have been pursuing the vision Charlie and I have recently caught longer than we have been alive! At any rate, I'm sure I'm not really making myself terribly clear, so I apologize, but I am rather sleepy and am longing to lay my head down to rest.

So take heart anyone taking the time to check this thing. I've just posted twice in as many days! I may yet make myself clearer and go into greater detail as to what I'm rather clumsily explaining/mentioning.

Breaking my Post Fast

Actually, I haven't exactly been fasting for any intent or purpose. I just, as I'm sure anyone who checks this blog realizes, don't blog consistently. Not good for reader retention, I know. Sorry, if you care. There might be two of you out there. And one of those two is, I must playfully say, at fault for some of my inconsistency.

Abigail. It is all your fault. If you weren't so wonderful (and smoking in the looks department) then I wouldn't have wanted to be anything more for us than a friendship. And if you hadn't so astonishingly wanted the same in me, well, I'd have been crushed and had lots of anguish to fuel posts. Furthermore, if you hadn't let me spend my time at home so blissfully in your presence, blogging would have been an option. And now that we have been asunder because of my occupation your charms force me to call you and talk to you so frequently. Look, now that I'm finally blogging, I'm talking about you. You're ruining this post for everyone else. It is all your fault. Or mostly. Or not at all. Okay, fine. You're not really to blame at all, but I wanted an excuse for trying to express in a slightly humorous way how glad I am God has so mercifully and graciously allowed me to have you in my life. Okay, that is all the gushing I'll do for now.

So for everyone else, or rather, the one other person who has happened upon this blog, I have an amazing lady in my life now. You probably know her or have at least heard about her: the one and only Abigail Abt.

And as for other news in my life: I'm at Fort Lewis now. Or should I say finally. I was originally scheduled to be here in June... it is mid-October. So yeah, my time in Georgia was a bit longer than planned. Now that I've arrived I have been told I may not be in the same unit as I previously thought. Not something I'd expected or hoped for. So I'm going to try, tomorrow, to see what I can do about getting back into that unit that I was originally assigned to. If it doesn't work out though, well, I'll have to trust that it is all in God's plan. And really, all I desire, beyond all my selfish and prideful longings, is to see His eternal kingdom expanded through my life. So please pray for that to be accomplished in and through me. And that I'll trust Him for all the rest.

Plenty more to say, but it will have to wait for later. I'm off for now. Hope you remain patient with me and wait till another post. Thanks for reading and for your prayers.