Our heart

In I Samuel 16:7, it says that God looks into the heart. That is so cool that He doesn't look at who we are on the outside with things such as what we do, what we look like, how we work, but our insides.
Our heart...what is that all about? The very depth of our being. But, do we even know what is in there or how to ponder that without getting too inward?
He is looking for those "to show himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward him." (2 Chronicles 16:9) How can our hearts become perfect?
God has the ability to change our heart and even give us a new heart that is perfect toward Him. We can keep our hearts perfect toward God by asking God to reveal and remove any thing in our heart that would keep us from loving Him with our whole heart.

Shining brilliantly

Daniel 12:3 (The Message) Men and women who have lived wisely and well will shine brilliantly, like the cloudless, star-strewn night skies. And those who put others on the right path to life will glow like stars forever.



The sun rises with simple colors blended together, touching the earth and the sky bringing light and textures. May our lives be such a brilliant display of His love that others would see and know Him.

New guitar player

This is my nephew with one of my guitars. I was giving him some lessons and trying to teach him the way to carefully strum the strings, but he likes to just pound on it. He is 9 months today. I guess it is just good that he is happy. He is also crawling everywhere now and clapping.
Oh, the joys of watching a young child learn and grow up!!

I am also watching my students as they seem really into listening to me lecture this year. I feel like telling them to read the paper or daydream, but they seem to be into listening. I guess that is good, but it is strange to notice their intensity. Maybe I have more valuable things to say as I get older??

We are...Penn State!!

beautiful day

Wow, what a beautiful day!! I was out there in the sun for a little bit, but now I am inside watching the US Open Tennis match. It is hard to look at the lovely day and stay inside, but I really like watching tennis. Soon, I will go back out to enjoy the most amazing day.
School has been going well so far. We are done with one week now.
We won our first big football game of the year, but it wasn't a big team Next weekend, it will be just so crazy here with Notre Dame coming to town. So far I have 2 tailgate invites, but no tickets...it is just too expensive for me.