This will probably be my last post in this category, so I thought you might like to see (maybe you couldn't care less, but then... would you still be reading, if that were the case?) some pictures in the progression.
Speaking of procrastination, we have been slackers in the Getting Film Developed Department. We have a bag of rolls that need to be developed and every once in awhile, we'll grab a couple to throw in with a new roll we're developing. Today was one of those days.
Our little church community recently celebrated the baptism of a covenant child by enjoying a feast hosted by the baby's parents. There was food and drink and dancing and food and music and food and touch football and tire-swinging and food and laughter and conversation and food and dancing and joy, joy, joy, joy, down in my heart. WHERE?! Down in m-- uh... sorry. Where was I? Oh yeah, the feast! And we got some great pictures of parents and children and babies and grandparents dancing. (Watch Every Thought Captive for the highlights.) Today we ran those two rolls to get developed and grabbed a couple from the bag to go with them.
One of the rolls was from Christmas 2002! We only had two children then, and ds#2 (now age 6) was wearing the pajamas that dd#1 (age 2) is wearing tonight. Ds#2 had curly hair back then (it didn't come back as curly after his first "real" haircut, around his third birthday). The other roll was from about the time of my last "Beard" blog entry.
So, here are a couple of pictures of the early stages of my beard:
Homeschool Dad's Breakfast - October, 2004
(BTW, the gentleman to my left in this pic, is my friend Wade Myers, one of the speakers at Vision Forum's Entrepreneurial Bootcamp. Wade is worth the price of admission!)
Feasting with our good friends after visiting Saint Peter
Celebrating the news that dd#1 was going to be a big sister
All of the above are during the VERY early stages of my beardedness. For a current view, this was recently posted by our friends, the Serven Clan, on their blog:
Enrapt in coversation with the Serven "children" — the four oldest are adults!
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Posted by Jim Bob Howard to Beards at 6/02/2006 10:49:00 PM
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Don't know how much one can say about a beard either, but I just thought I'd express my opinion that 1 Cor. 11:14 is a good N.T. pro-beard proof text. Granted, there are O.T. verses that are more explicit, but I think this'll do. What say ye?
Bubba,
Doth not even nature itself teach you, that, if a man have long hair, it is a shame unto him?
Hmm... not sure how that might apply to beards. Perhaps you can elaborate?
Paul tells us that nature plainly teaches that it is shameful for a man to have long hair. In other words, it is unnatural and therefore inappropriate for a man to have long hair. Is it a stretch to similarly conclude that it is natural, hence fitting and proper and -- dare I say -- biblical and preferable, for a man to have a beard?
If not, why the heck does facial hair keep growing back when we shave it off? And why don't you see many women sporting beards and goatees?
Perhaps I am taking too much liberty here (read eisegesis), but pro-beard O.T. passages seem to support my conclusion. I won't be admonishing my beardless Christian brothers for their shaving habits, but I can't help but wonder if nature itself is trying to teach us something. ;)
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