I can’t remember why or how it happened, but the verses from Isaiah 55 kept showing up in our lives, in our thoughts, and in our hearts during the time when my wife and I were engaged.  It soon became a theme for our wedding.  As we were thinking of a website name, we thought it would be cool to link the site name to this chapter since it was so integral to the beginning or our lives together. Here is a little excerpt from it:

“For my thoughts are not your thoughts,
Nor are your ways My ways,” says the Lord.
“For as the heavens are higher than the earth,
So are My ways higher than your ways,
And My thoughts than your thoughts.
…
For you shall go out with joy,
And be led out with peace;
The mountains and the hills
Shall break forth into singing before you,
And all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.
Instead of the thorn shall come up the cypress tree,
And instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle tree;
And it shall be to the Lord for a name,
For an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off.”
(Isaiah 55:8-9,12-13)

But why a new website? The simple boring reason is that some other web space we were using is going away and we needed another place to post thoughts, pictures, and videos.  The cool exciting reason is that I’ve recently entered the realm of computer programming, and I thought it would be fun to create a website.  This blog (as you probably know) was not created designed by me, but it’s a placeholder (maybe) for the meantime until I can create a super awesome fantastic website.  We’ll see if that actually happens.

I’ve never been a big blogging type of person, but my wife enjoys cataloging events and people through pictures and thoughts.  Much of this blog may end up being about our 1 year old daughter.

Until then, go check out Sufjan Steven’s track “All the Trees of the Field Will Clap Their Hands” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvq-GQP-VyY (I always liked this live version the most).