Radiate: Tristan Mason’s blog

There’s just nothing quite like a good pie-in-the-face video for promoting an event, especially if your pastor is on the receiving end…

Wow, that’s a lot of hits. Ok, so it took three and a half years to get that many, but I’m still happy. :) Congrats to the 100,000th visitor… someone right here in the western suburbs of Chicago who was using a Mac and connected via Comcast. Was it you?

In other news: I’ve switched servers so the site will be more reliable. You can either go to http://www.tristanmason.com OR the real server at http://radiate.aplacetoconnect.com . Either one will work.  If your bookmark or RSS reader still has “earthenjars.org” in it, please update it!

Looking forward to another 100k,

Tristan

The cabin is good to go! We inaugurated it last night with a bonfire and skewered hot dogs. We all feel like old guys groaning about our backs hurting, but a few muscle aches is well worth it. That cabin is going to be a great place for people to spend time pursuing God, away from the busyness and rush of everyday life.

So here’s the transport video…

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Well, the cabin is on the trailer. THAT was hairy. The video makes it look kind of easy because I couldn’t film while we were trying not to die. Okay, it wasn’t quite that bad, but what you don’t see on the video is that we had to turn the cabin after we got it on the trailer so that it would be in line with the trailer instead of perpendicular to it. So we jacked it up again, blocked it again, backed it under as much as we could, lowered it, drilled through some floor joists, ran tow straps through the joists, winched it further onto the trailer with a comealong, built a frame around it, and then strapped the frame to the trailer so the cabin wouldn’t move. Tomorrow morning the moment of truth will come when we move it…

Anyway, here’s the video.

[I was blinded this morning while sitting on this couch, and I saw]

You dwell in unapproachable light,
    and all the forces of night
    flee blindly from Your fiery gaze;

Yet the darkest soul of us all
    (left in tatters by the Fall)
    sees healing in Your gentle grace.