A Hush Descends

...as a new Kerlin post breaks into the blogosphere. For centuries they were dormant, and then, not unlike John Travolta's career, they came back bigger and badder than ever. The long wait was finally over. The Kerlins...had posted.
In the spirit of Douglas Adams we apologize for any inconvenience. But you see, we have had no camera to post pictures with, and our lives have also been a tad unremarkable until recently. Had we posted earlier they would have been text posts with entries like "Brushed teeth today. Found piece of sausage in molars. Will save for later." And let's face it- no one wants to hear that sort of thing.
Much has happened recently though. Above you will see a picture of a bunch of kids (the New Covenant high school youth group) with me (Seth) and my father. We are in Sherard Mississippi building homes for Habitat for Humanity. I believe this shot was taken Monday July 3rd- a couple of days after I had received a phone call from New Covenant Fellowship saying that the church had voted in referendum unanimously (143 to 0, I believe- yes, I feel affirmed) to make me the new youth pastor of the church. Laura and I were both ecstatic to hear the news as we had been greatly enjoying spending time with these kids and really felt as though God was blessing us through them (and hopefully vice versa). Actually, this shot came at the tail of a 3 1/2 week youth blitzkrieg of sorts that began with some hard hiking in the Colorado Rockies and ended with the last H for H day in Mississippi. More on all of that later.
Other big news we have includes the purchase of a home (my mother figures big in that story), Laura starting grad school in the Fall, a recent Ellen Eischen sighting, a NASA bed, and, well, just lots of uber fascinating stuff that is downright riveting. And we will shortly be acquiring a camera by which means we hope to share with all of you our visual blessings. So quit your sweaty trembling alohakerlins junkies. Your fix is on its way.