scary...

So I was just checking out the news and looked this story up. It particularly caught my attention because I just finished reading "Piercing the Darkness" by Frank Peretti. But here is a part of the article:

"But they [the woman's attorneys] said she suffered from severe postpartum psychosis and, in a delusional state, believed Satan was inside her and was trying to save them from hell."

So I understand this is the media and they would never print anything like this, but I wonder how many people actually understand what most likely happened here. There is such a thing as demon-possession, the Bible states clearly many times that Jesus and His disciples cast demons out of people. Are we just trying to kid ourselves into thinking that that kind of thing only happened in Jesus day? Heck no!! After Jesus death Satan is working all the harder because he knows his time is limited. The battle is on. So are we going to realize that we are in spiritual warfare or just come up with more fancy names like "postpartum psychosis" so that people think it is just a medical thing? Seriously, I bet even alot of Christians believe that crap.

Oh so yeah the connection to "Piercing the Darkness" is that in that book a woman had drowned her only child in a bathtub because of a demon possessing her. So yeah it was just kinda jarring to realize that that kind of thing (even the same exact situation) doesn't just happen in novels.

Anyways, I think I am done venting for now. This blog definately started off as a more informative thing, and definately turned into more of a rant about people being naive. So yeah I'm done.

Back in Colorado

So after a 5 week adventure, I finally got back to Colorado at about 10:30 on Friday night. It was a really intense experience and I have more stories than I can count. I have pretty much told stories to my folks non-stop since I got back and there is no way I have gotten through more than a sixth of them. As I remember some of them I will try to post some of the cooler ones. Don't expect all of them though. If you want some more general stories you can check out the journals that I wrote during the trip. They are all up on http://www.urbana.org/feat.trek.2006.cfm?recordid=767 on the right side where it says "Journals." If you haven't checked them out yet you should. But anyways, I am slowly recovering my sleep and energy. I am back at work today, although there is still nothing for me to do :( Oh well, I won't complain too much. I see it as a little more of a blessing to have my job after helping people sort recycled trash (that's how some of the people we were with make money). I am still trying to figure out what all happened to me, but I trust that God will be faithful and show me things that I learned when I am ready to see them.

I am also working on a small scrap book of some of the cooler pictures. I figure not everyone wants to see all 600+ of the pictures they gave us. So Hopefully I will have that together soon, and maybe if I can find somewhere to put it I will have on online version, but don't get your hopes up. Anywho, ta for now.