On Marriage

Yesterday I heard a great comment on the Puritans and their view of marriage. It went something like this. "Today we marry because we 'fall in love'. In those days, they 'fell in love' because they got married.

In our time marriage is all about me and what I can get from life in general and from marriage in particular. Marriage is about me and if I stop getting I leave the marriage. I have seen this on several occasions, yea even recently.

Yes, Mr. T. "fell in love" prior to marrying, but I will say that I didn't know what love meant then like I do now. Next week marks my 4 year wedding anniversary and I must say that God has used my marriage to change me a little more from that selfish man I once was into someone that is a little more like Christ. Marriage has a way of doing that as two sinful people find themselves sharing their lives in the most intimate ways.

So for those of you looking to marry, be wary of the whole "falling in love" thing. Rather choose to love the person that God brings you and you will find the joy that you'll never receive by living for yourself.

Mr. T.

New to blogging

I am new to the blogging world. I never thought I would be blogging, but I see that it could be a good way to interact with students and colleagues as well as family and friends. I am all about ideas and so will be recording here what I have been thinking about. Most of all, I think this will help me be disciplined in writing a little bit.

Most recently, I have been thinking a lot about engineering as a sacred calling. I recently (last Thursday) presented a paper on that topic at the Christian Engineering Education Conference. My presentation is posted on my website. What's fascinating to me is that God calls people to a variety of stations in life not least of which is engineering. In our callings we are to learn to find Christ in our neighbor and serve them faithfully.