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Coffee Drinks Illustrated | Lokesh Dhakar

Here’s a link to some diagrams of espresso drinks. They’re missing my favorite, of course, a “redeye” which is what my lovely wife brews up for me most mornings.

It’s like the Americano, but better. We take a triple shot of espresso and water it down with coffee.

Keeps me going all morning!

Amazing Money Origami | Blogger Trail

At the link above you’ll find some really cool pictures of Origami made of federal reserve notes. The tank (first picture) is my favorite. Theresa stumbled upon this the other night and I asked her to send me the link.

Enjoy!

I’ve been doing better at posting lately, and don’t want to get people into the habit of not checking my blog, but this week is a crazy one at work and I’ll not have time for much personal writing.

So I’m going to post some interesting (at least to me) links this week. I’ll start with the best (so you’ll be more confident in following the rest of them–seeing the fine quality of this one). This is a recent post by my goodly wife, and it was a reminder of why I have become very different in my approach to community and progress over the past few years.

I can’t help thinking that we are too quick to do away with our history in the name of progress. A splash of Peoria piquancy was lost, leaving bland commercial sameness. And so, as I load my 6 pounds of baby carrots into the van, I sadly avert my eyes from that muddy, empty spot over yonder.

Read the rest here!

Paul Tripp has started another series, this one on Psalm 27:

I had a friend who had quite a large rose garden. He was very dedicated to doing all the daily tasks that were necessary to keep his roses healthy. But it hit him one day that he’d taken no time to actually enjoy the roses that he was so zealous to tend. So, one afternoon he did just that.

This may be a nice read for you to be reminded of God’s goodness this Lord’s Day.

…who upon realizing that something was accomplished not on today’s “to do” list, writes the accomplishment down so I can cross it off?

First, Theresa has some new posts up if you haven’t seen them, including pictures of the cute children (they take after her).

Today, at breakfast, everyone was in a mood. By “in a mood” I mean that all of the children found humor in everything and I was tired. So that’s the kind of day it’s going to be. You know, the kind where you write “rent Bill Cosby, Himself” on the to-do list.

In family news, we have a change in the pecking order of sorts. For those of you who don’t know my three oldest children are currently 11, 10 and 9. Samuel is 15 months behind Moriah and Toby is 13 months younger than Samuel. That’s 24 1/2 months between the three.

For a long time Samuel and Toby have worn the same clothes. On the pantry door where we make the annual growth marks, we noticed this past December that Toby was significantly taller than Samuel was 12 months earlier. It was then that we realized that Toby would be taller than Samuel one day.

And that day has come–only a few months later. Toby was sized up to Moriah’s year end line yesterday by his mama and was an inch past it. I later checked Samuel and he was not quite past, so I put them back to back, and sure enough, Toby is now taller than his “big brother.”

I’m sure this will be a cause of some consternation and humor for a while.

More news later–and I plan to get back to writing at some point, but thought some of you might be interested in the news from Orange St.

Mom called tonight and she got the staples from the surgery removed today.

She also told me that the final pathology was that the tumor was “typical” which means completely benign and so she’ll need no radiation therapy or anything.

She goes in a for a checkup in 3 weeks, but it appears she’s done with this one. Praise God!

thanks to everyone who was praying for her.

This past month my family and I were in Washington, DC and stayed at a hotel in Bethesda, Maryland. On the Monday evening we were there we walked down the road to Cesco Trattoria, an Italian place that the hotel desk staff recommended.

Oh, my!

From the freshly baked bread, to the bottle of Chianti, to the freshly made (on site) pasta dishes and the meat that we had (a filet and some venison) with the pasta everything was amazing. Truly fantastic to the point where I could not stop exclaiming how good it was.

I have eaten out quite a bit in my life and worked in some mighty fine establishments, and this is by far the best meal I have had in recent memory, possibly my whole life. We sat around the table, the children, Raquel, Gabrielle, and Theresa and me waxing and enjoying and in a froth about how good this food was. The wine was perfect for the meal and we just ate and ate and were filled with joy at the artistry of the chef.

Midway through the meal it hit me, and I made an announcement to the table: Do you all realize that the food in heaven is better than this?

Better. Better in unimaginable ways.

As I wrote yesterday I have been longing for heaven quite a bit of late, and so Continue Reading »

I’m homesick. No, not home, sick: homesick.

And I’m not on the road this week.

Yesterday morning I got awoke to my wife bringing me a cup of coffee. Not just any coffee, but a “triple-shot-redeye” she made with the espresso maker she got me for my birthday. Quite the beverage—I don’t need any more coffee for the whole day after that start.

And so I sat up on the bed, my wife next to me, enjoying being home. Since it was Sunday, I turned on my iPod rather than the radio station and queued up The Far Country by Andrew Peterson. (Another birthday present—this one from Raquel) Midway through the first (the title) track, I felt tears welling up in my eyes and by the second line of the chorus of track two I was bawling like a baby.

I couldn’t help it. Continue Reading »

Paul Tripp Ministries: Psalm 51: Forgiveness

It’s only when you’re ready to admit the worst that you then open yourself up to what’s best…. There’s no sin too great, there’s no act too heinous, and there’s no person beyond hope.

As we approach worship today, let us remember that we worship a God who forgives. I hope you’ll read this post by Paul Tripp and be encouraged in your worship today!