The cover of the handout at church this week had this fantastic quote I want to share.

“Lacking confirmation by the word of a friend, our most promising beginnings fizzle. Lacking confirmation in the presence of a friend, our bravest ventures unravel. It’s not unusual for any of us to begin something wonderful and it’s not unusual for any of us to do things that are quite good. But it is unusual to continue and to preservere. The difficulties aren’t for the most part external but internal — finding the energy and vision to keep the effort going. Being good and doing good are seldom adequately rewarded: more often they get us into trouble.” - Eugene Peterson

I love this, because it reminds me of how powerful a few kind and helpful words can be to someone. We are amazing creatures of impact and influence.

For those of you, like Neha, who actually check my blog regularly, I’ve been down for the last month. The previous server this blog was hosted on endured some hardware failure that took everything offline. In the last week, a new hosting solution has been finally provisioned and I’ve found little bits of time to set up all the server. Thank rsync for the power of backups, for I endured the hardware failure with no data loss.

It’s late here and I’m heading into bed, but here’s a summary-by-photos of what’s been happening in the last month.

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