2/04/2005 03:45:08 PM|||Joel VandenBrink|||

well it is my 24th birthday today. brooke keeps on telling me that I'm in my mid 20's now and not my early 20's. She says it sounds older to her. either way today is the day that i get to celebrate the fact that I am alive. I get to sulk in how the world is different because I am alive. and I get to look forward to another year with the yearning question of, "what exciting and horrific things will the next year bring?" I know my 23rd year of life brought some incredibly awesome moments and some incredibly hard moments, so I can only anticipate much of the same to come. Brooke and I are now home owners, we are now members of a home church that we helped start, i voted in my first presidential election, i learned a lot that i wish i didn't know, i learned a lot that i'm glad i know. and yet, i sit here longing in anticipation for the next year. who knows where life will bring me? who knows where i will be febraury 4, 2006. I may not be alive. I may have cancer. I may be in perfect health. Heck, if modern medicine doesn't work i could even be a father.

well switching gears a little to current events. I recently purchased this weeks time magazine because the cover article was "The 25 most influential Evangelicals in America." If you want to read the article click here. I was grossly disappointed with it, but maybe you won't be.

oh, and after i published my last rant about freedom i went home and realized that as I was typing President Bush was talking about expanding freedom...or does he mean 'freedom.' either way it certainly was strange.

peace
joel

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