And he's off!

After a bit of a delay, my brother is finally in basic training.

At my mother's suggestion, I got him a small Bible. Nothing quite the thing I was looking for, but a "mere book" works. And that is the remarkable thing about the Bible, the fact that it's a "mere book." The Word of God is not brought to us by some nebulous spiritual experience but rather by ink impressed onto bound paper- matter, physical stuff! God chose to speak to us on our level with things that are familiar to us. Even more so, when God sent his Son it was not as a ghost or in nature as pagan gods may, but as a man in flesh. As a wise man once said, "God likes matter, He invented it."

Anyways, Andrew, make your nation proud, God bless and Godspeed!