Power in Weakness

I'm relaunching my blog--hooray! Very unlike the reason I relaunched my blog 3 years ago (I suddenly had tons of free time), I hardly have leisure time enough to breathe or eat, much less start a new project, BUT I also have a dire need to write the things God is teaching me, chronicle this ongoing journey of believing for healing in the midst of often devastating illness, and in the process, encourage myself in the truth. You can come along too if you want. Since the last time I posted: I started dating a hot mama named Jessica Maxson and forgot about my blog and pretty much everything else in life (except for the very understandable primal urge for Mexican food). I somehow convinced this same girl to marry me, and we were happily wed in June of this year. I moved back to Visalia, first to substitute teach, then to teach full time at St. Paul's School. I started as a science teacher, and then it suddenly dawned on everyone involved that I had no background in science o