As many of you know, my daughter and son-in-law, and their five kids, have been at Oxford the last year, and just got home the night before last. We of course had to have ourselves a barbeque, along with a little synchronized corn on the cob eating in our front yard. And here is a …
Tintagel
Just a couple of quick pictures from the UK. As I have mentioned before, my oldest daughter and family have been at Oxford for the year while Ben has been studying there. And while Ben was with the NSA college tour, the rest of the troops recently went to Tintagel, where Geoffery of Monmouth placed …
Glorifying God in Tight Spaces
Nancy has a great post on sabbath living . . . here.
Four Generations
God has blessed us with lots of family, in all kinds of directions, and we are of course very grateful for it. But there are interesting subgroups as well. This is a recent photo that was taken of our males with the surname of Wilson, four generations of them. Since God keeps covenant and mercy …
Latest Film Project
On a trip to New York last year, my son Nate and his friend Aaron found themselves, through a series of circumstances that would be hard to explain, walking through the set of a film being shot. When the film in question — The Devil Wears Prada — was recently released to video, it was …
More on Seamus
After Frank Turk taunted me for being a grandfather without pictures of our new number 11, I resolved to do something about it.
Seamus Has Now Joined Us
We continue to thank the Lord for all His blessings to our extended family, and to Nate and Heather specifically. His mercy never fails, His kindness never stops, and His blessings flow to children’s children. This morning our eleventh grandchild was born, at 8 pounds something, and his name is Seamus James Wilson. Seamus is …
But That’s What Everybody Always Calls It
My oldest daughter was recently talking with her youngest son, Judah, who is almost two. He is just moving into that time of life when he is able to identify various parts of his head. “What’s this?” she said. “Chin,” he said. “What’s this?” “Cheek.” And on it went, with him doing very well . …
A Long Obedience
NSA Commencement 2006 Last Wednesday night, we had our ninth commencement for New St. Andrews College. One of the features of the evening was that we honored my father, Jim Wilson, for the impact he has had throughout the course of his long and fruitful life. Among some others, I was asked to make some …
Three More Hamhocks
For those not up to speed, a hamhock is a pig foot. And really cute too.