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2012 Top Ten Posts

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toptenawHere are the top ten most read posts of 2012.

10. Guest Post: Park View Community Mission.  Lee Ann Powers, an member of Christ Community United Methodist Church in Lynchburg wrote about the mission of Park View Community Mission, a Lynchburg District mission. Lee Ann writes passionately about this ministry and links this work to the work of the early Christians as evident in Acts. Lee Ann is a student of Eastern Mennonite Seminary and is on the deacon track.

9. Waiting is Hard.  This was my only Advent post for 2011, but it was viewed a bunch of times this year. I write about not passively waiting, but waiting while actively being about kingdom work. The disciples felt asleep, are we falling asleep as well?

8. Sex in Heaven?  The title, I’m sure, is what made this one get so many views. A friend shared a story about what a question raised in a Bible study with older adults. I thought it was worth sharing.

7. Religious Respect? I wrote this after a news story came out that US military personnel burned copies of the Koran. Why do we disrespect one religion by using another? This post also received the most comments in 2012.

6. Wedding Planning: the invitation. I’m actually surprised there weren’t more wedding planning posts in this list. But a lot of them were posted in 2011 and seen then. Megan and I were married in April of 2012, and a lot of people were keeping up with our plans via our blog.

5. Looking through a . . . peephole? This was a quote shared with me by one of my former youth group students. I came across it randomly one day.

4. Team Snoopy.  I have been writing for Hollywood Jesus.com, and one of the perks is I am sent DVDs to review for the site. This was one of those reviews. In the review I draw a connection between Charlie Brown and Habakkuk and the lessons we can learn from both.

3. Faith Fumes. This was a devotion I had written in early 2012. In it, I compare our spiritual life running on fumes, like we tend to do with our gas tanks. In fact, I was doing that this morning. I share the General Rules from John Wesley that help us keep our tank full.

2. Empty Pages. I wrote this post back in May of 2011. I found some old journals I had kept one day and after looking through them, I reflected on the empty (and not so empty) pages in those journals. Journal writing has been an important element of my spirituality.

1. How to Care for Introverts. I stumbled upon this graphic on Facebook. It is so true! As an introvert, I agree with each of these 12 points. Someone has randomly posted this on Pintrist, so I welcome all those who find me through Pintrist.

Weekly Photo Challenge: Together

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The Challenge: Together. This should be a simple challenge for most of you – find a picture of people or things which are together in your picture. Share a picture that means TOGETHER to you!

It has been awhile since I participated in WordPress’s Weekly Photo Challenge. I got married on April 14th! So this one was easy for me. Together means the journey that Megan and I just begun. The picture below was taken during our reception.

Wedding Kooizes!

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Look what arrived today! Megan and I got “megan and jason” kooizes madeas parting gifts for the guests at the wedding.  We used the design I made for the wedding invitations.   There was a minimum order requirement, which is way more than we’ll actually need for the wedding.  So don’t worry, you might get one!

Ms. Clark on Marriage

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photo by J. Leckszas

“Are you getting married?” Ms. Clark quizzingly asked me.

“Yes, ma’am,” I answered, “in April.”

Ms. Mary Clark has been a LebCamp resident for the last three LebCamps.  I had gone by her home a few days ago to check on something that was causing her some concern.  After talking about her family and raising one of her nieces, Ms. Clark turns her wit and wisdom towards my future.

“Marriage is hard work,” she said.  “You have to take a little and give a little.”  As we stood around in her LebCamp-painted back room, she shared quite openly about her marriage and the struggles she experienced and the eventual divorce.

Ms. Clark then told me that it’s important to be patient in a marriage.  “Womans . . . well,” she says as she begins to chuckle.  “I am one, so I know,” she says.   She began to pat her chest as she said, “We got a lot stuff going on in here, you just got to be patient.”

And I respectfully said, “Yes, ma’am.”

Wedding Planning: Date and Location

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And so, it begins.  The bridal magazines are beginning to pile up.  The wedding blogs are filling inboxes.  And the ideas are surfacing a mile a minute.

We have started to plan our wedding.  Wedding planning can be stressful, yet it has been exciting and quite productive.  The wedding is scheduled for Saturday, April 14, 2012.

The service will be at Enon United Methodist Church in Hanover County.  It’s a historic church, built in the 1830′s and a site of a battle during the Civil War.  The service will be held outside on the lawn  in front of the church.

The reception will be held at Summer Hill Plantation, also in Hanover County.  The current home that sits on the plantation was built by 1803.  Summer Hill at one time consisted of 1400 acres of fertile ground that would contribute enormously to the local region.  The plantation would serve as the Union army’s headquarters during the Civil War.    The reception will be outside as well with the historic home serving as a backdrop.

We are planning a small wedding.   The challenging task of “the guest list” will begin soon.
There are so many details to iron out, so many small things to think about and yet we know that none of it is as important as a lifetime of marriage.  We are looking forward to this special day to share with family and friends and especially, one another.

love, megan & jason

The Engagment

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Well, it’s Facebook official.  I’m engaged!  I popped the question to Megan this past Thursday while we were on a mini vacation to Washington D.C.  We had been talking about the trip for over a year and finally our schedules let up to make it happen.  And I thought, what better time to ask.

We left Thursday morning on the train out of the Ashland station.  Once arriving in D. C., we hopped on the Metro (which we learned to love) and headed to Georgetown for an amazing lunch.  After changing into more comfortable clothes, we walked to the Mall area.  We headed first to the Lincoln Memorial.  I have been to D. C. a few times, but never been to the Lincoln Memorial.

I was looking forward to standing at the top and looking out over the Reflecting Pool and imaging the millions of people who gathered to hear Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech.   I had looked forward to getting close to the water and imagine what it was like for Tom Hanks as Forrest Gump to run through the pool as he greeted Jenny in his open arms.  But, that didn’t happen.  The Reflecting Pool is currently under construction and there was not a lick of water to be found.

The Reflecting Pool was actually my original plan for the proposal.  So, there we were standing near the pool, with the ring in my pocket, and there was no water.  A huge fence was up and all you can see was a rectangle of dirt.  So, we walked up the Memorial, took some pictures of ole Abe, read parts of the Gettysburg Address as its engraved on the wall, and then we walked around the Memorial.  We got to the side where you could see the Potomac River and I took a seat and encouraged Megan to sit next to me.  No one was around.  It was a quiet and  peaceful spot.  We talked a bit about what we would go see next.  And then beginning with two words (“So . . . Baby”) I asked if she would marry me. . . . and she said yes.

After spending the rest of the day roaming around the city, we had an amazing dinner and evening out at Founding Farmer’s (which we think everyone should check out).