So I finally was able to get this new site design up and loaded. I haven’t decided yet whether it’s going to fly in the long run, but please email me with comments as to whether you hate it, like it, or want to print it all out and paste it on your wall. I have been working like a madman the last little while which makes one wonder where and why I had time to re-design this site. But I did – so shoot me. Two weekends ago as I wrote before, I was home for the weekend in NS. This past weekend I was in New York visiting my brother and sister-in-law, this coming weekend I’m hoping to be camping in Baxter State park in Maine (planning to leave at 22:00 on Friday and make it there in time for breakfast), and the weekend after that I should be in Toronto for the YP weekend there, Lord willing. Just a little busy here … smile! Oh I better throw in just for interest that we’re getting kicked out of our house on July 30 as the owner is selling it, and I might be homeless for the month of August. Fun. Fun. And more fun.

Three weeks once more since I’ve updated this page – but this time I do have an excuse. I had been working on a new design for the page which I liked far more than the current one (did not contain DHTML), but after spending a while one it, I realized that it was not compatible on Netscape 4. The funny thing was that it displayed properly on IE 3 and above as well as Netscape 3.0, just not Netscape 4.0. Anyway, so what’s happening in my life? Well, this weekend I was home to Nova Scotia for the Stellarton conference, and this was wonderful. Two reading meetings were on Hebrews 1 which I very much enjoyed, and the third reading was on 1 Corinthians 10. I highly recommend getting the tapes if you can. Plus, it was wonderful to be home and sit in the living room at 130 MacKay st, and talk with my family. But besides all this, I received the absolutely best news I’ve heard all year this weekend … something that absolutely thrilled me. It has left a smile on my face. And you know what? I’m not the only one. Besides many many others, there is also joy in the presence of the angels in heaven. God truly answers prayers.

Continuing on the thought from last week, I believe that Joseph needed to realize that he was nothing. In Genesis 40:8, he says, “Do not interpretations belong to God? tell me them, I pray you.” Although at first glance this might not seem wrong, I believe there was a progression in his life until the next chapter in verse 16 when Joseph tells Pharoah, “It is not in me: God shall give Pharaoh an answer of peace.” He goes from telling Pharoah’s officers to tell him the dreams, to telling Pharoah that it was not in him. During those long years prison, he came to realize that he really was nothing. And this is probably the most difficult lesson for us, for me, to learn. Study well four words, “The flesh profiteth nothing.” John 6:63 On a totally side note to this and unrelated, I thought I should add on here that both my oldest sister and her husband, as well as my oldest brother and his wife, are expecting children. Smile.