We're better, baby is coming, I miss people

The colds have subsided. Emma is well into kindergarten now. Corben is still 2.

I have just launched a small web site for High Tide Ranch in Steamboat. I used some of my photographs for the site (the waterfall and columbine are mine). Nancy and I will try and take more trips out there, Steamboat is pretty amazing and the Bunkhouse is cool.

Nancy is due the 15th of October (somehow the date is 1 day sooner than we were originally told) although they will likely induce her a week early since she has had high risk deliveries for both the other kids. That means in under a month there will be another little one and our lives will be really... interesting.

I'm feeling the need to connect with people on a pretty deep emotional level. Intimacy, I think, is what I am longing for. I have been talking a lot lately with our college group and the high schoolers about how Christ's sacrifice is to redeem us not only back to God but back to one another. About how we all have a deep longing to be in intimate, authentic relationships with others, and how that is only possible through the redemptive work of Christ.

Nancy and I are well. I have been trying to get a date with her for the past week or so, but it isn't materializing yet. Getting a sitter shouldn't be this big a deal. I feel like we are pretty good, we seem to talk for long periods of time, although the frequency of those conversations could be greater.

Mark and Jackie came up last weekend for a little visit. It was good to see them, but I was hoping we could just hang out all afternoon and evening and into the next day. That's hard to do on a busy weekend when its already Sunday and we all have plans.

There is one friend in particular who seems to be well past arm's length, and I know she is going through some pretty challenging times, and I want to talk with her and share in whatever she has going on. And I can't, and with the way I feel right now that seems especially sad.

These are the days when I long for eternity.