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I'm back! It's been a very busy 6 months since I last was writing regularly! But because of the popular demand for more blogging, and particularly wedding photos, I'm back in the business.

The wedding was beautiful-- thank you so much to everyone who helped-- and, well, it got the job done. We had awesome music from our InterVarsity friends, and scripture was read in 16 languages! Changana (from Mozambique), Spanish, Korean, Russian, Arabic, Tamil, Chinese, Malay, Swedish, Portuguese, Samoan, Mongolian, Italian, Hawaiian, Pidgin, and English! It was pretty cool. Our wedding was very low-key and held in our church in the Hilltop neighborhood of Tacoma. We spent our honeymoon at a cabin on a lake near Snoqualmie, and then downtown Vancouver, BC.

We moved to a quaint townhouse near campus with a nice back porch. My grandpa bought us a porch swing. Many people gave us games before the wedding, and so now we play a lot of Rummikub and Skip-Bo. We've been doing a lot of hosting and cooking, enjoying our farm share and our new appliances, textiles and serving dishes.

Quote of the day, from a wedding planning site:

"After your wedding day, the only things you have left are your pictures and your video."

Um... how about the marriage?

I finally posted a new post... but since I started it last week it posted below, not on top. Don't miss it!

Such an interesting discussion. Each comment has brought out a different angle on the matter. Wholism and integration, focus in one's call, the effect on non-believers, art and truth and prophecy, individual sin versus societal sin.

The timing of this has been interesting. Tonight Bryan and I are going up to a Derek Webb concert at Trinity Western University in Langley, BC. He's one of Bryan's heroes and I have a great respect for him also. He used to be a part of Caedmon's Call, but is now doing his own music. He really lays it out straight, and I think is the prophetic counterpart to Jars of Clay's restraint. The themes (if one pinned them down, which one oughtn't) would be the grace so central to reformed theology, and the universal fact of sin that forces us to rely only on grace and not on our ability to save ourselves. He also articulately critiques our current Western and Christian suburban culture.
http://derekwebb.musiccitynetworks.com/index.htm

Pi Day

March 14, was International Pi Day. Get it? 3.14? (Pi is a number crucial to calculate the circumference and area of a circle. But it's kind of a 'magical' number because mathematicians have only been discovering it-- no one could have made it up. It's digits go on forever, never repeating or having any pattern! Can you believe it? I think it has spiritual significance-- in order to get from here to there, you need a bit of the Eternal and 'magical'. This applies to math, sin, grace and relationships....)

In highschool Bryan's math class made up songs about pi for Pi Day. (Such as "oh number pi, oh number pi, your digits are unending..." to the tune of O Tannenbaum.) And he still remembers them. I know, totally nerdy, huh? But that's why I love him. :-)

So I knew it was a big deal to him, and I got excited too, and we planned a party and I made two cakes in the shape of the pi symbol.

We were going up to Seattle anyway, so we went a bit early and got Hawaiian BBQ, the site of our first date (after Ikea), and we went to the waterfront, the site of another romantic memory from way before we were dating.

He had a Pi Album. I'm not kidding. He had done research on the internet and made this great album about Love and Math.

[I would like to mention, for those who don't know us well, at this point in our lives neither one of us are mathematicians- he's a campus minister! We just enjoy the odd math holiday, and the more offbeat, random things in general... like the Oscar Mayer Wienermobile.]

Did you know people have written poems about pi? Here are some limericks for your enjoyment:

"A Pi Lymeric" - author unknown
There once was a number Pi
Very special like e and phi
Circumference to d
Is the ratio for me
And it's not a multiple of i.

"Pi Lymeric" - by Scott
Now there is an ancient Greek letter,
And I think no other is better.
It isn't too tall,
It might look very small,
But its digits, they go on forever.

And a more general math love poem... "Valentine" (author unknown)
You disintegrate my differential,
You dislocate my focus.
My pulse goes up like an exponential
whenever you cross my locus.
Without you, sets are null and void--
so won't you be my cardioid?

And after a great integral equation linking B sub J and J sub Z for eternity, there was a felt package with a beautiful ring inside! I was completely surprised.

The party we were going to was really an engagement party, and we were met with champagne and goodies and pictures of us from our freshman and sophomore years of college. It was great to see friends and have other people ooh and ah over my ring and over our happy news.

Discussion Topic:

"People want to buy what they want to be told," Jars of Clay lead vocalist Dan Haseltine told the Argus Leader this week. "They want people to lie to them." And so, the Argus Leader reports, Haseltine obliges. "Haseltine says Jars of Clay can't release the war protest songs it has written — its fans probably aren't ready for them," the paper's Robert Morast writes. "It's also why Haseltine rarely shares his political opinions. 'If you rock the boat too much, your records won't appear in certain Christian record stores anymore,' Haseltine says … . 'There are just taboo subjects that make it hard to be a Christian artist.'"
~Christianity Today Weblog, 3/13/07 http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2007/marchweb-only/110-51.0.html

What do you think of this? I'm not really asking your opinion of the war; rather, should a Christian artist share his political opinions or not?
I've changed my comment setting so anyone can comment, not just blogger users.

Wow! It's sunny!