Always in Awe

This morning as I was reading through some Scriptures, I found an old note in my Bible that caught my attention. Psalm 8 is really where I took the name "Always_in_awe" from for my blog account, so I thought I would share that with you. The Psalm starts out with a description of how great God is:

"Oh LORD, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth! You have set your glory above the heavens." (8:1)

Then it goes on to describe the response of man to this realization of God:

"When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place," [and this is where it gets really good] "What is man that you are mindful of him, and the son of man that you care for him?" (8:3-4)

Sometimes when I read through the Bible, I forget to think about the fact that God created the heavens, the sun, and the moon. Yet, he is mindful of ME! He thinks about me! It's amazing to think about how big and spectacular the sun is as a created object, and yet, we humans are so much more complex and detailed than the sun. In the created order, God used a lot of care weaving us together. We are valuable in God's eyes, no doubt about it.
The Psalm ends with a reverberating declaration:

"Oh LORD, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth!" (8:9)

Remember today how great God truly is!

I love you all!!
Ben <><

Random Assortment of Pictures

This is a very random assortment of pictures from our lives since the wedding. There is no sense to the selection of these pics, I just like them and wanted to share them with you all.

From our honeymoon...


From Halloween...

Sarah's grandparents...

Me getting beat at Scrabble...

Our trip to Texas...


Me and my brother-in-law...

The happily married couple...

Sarah and her grandmother...

We saw an AWESOME Switchfoot show down at Bouis Creek...

Right after the show...

Practicing to play with Jeff Capps...

This one is just for Robert (my brother-in-law)...

A little something

Hey, so I know we haven't posted in a while. Sorry. Just to let you know we're still here, I thought I'd post a video just for fun. This is something I made for the summer camp I worked at for 5 years. It's not that great, just a fun little video we made. It's set to look like MTV's Cribs. The funny thing is, the guys' name really is Dave Matthews. I hope you like!




We love you!!
Ben and Sarah <><

A Photo Montage

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Long time

Sorry for the long span of time in between the last post and this one. Sarah and I have been SUPER busy. I just started on three major term papers, Sarah has been sick for a solid week now, and on top of all that, our cars are both out of commission, so we've been trying to coordinate our lives around that. Hopefully, we'll be buying a car sometime in the near future (maybe two weeks), so you can definitely pray that it works out. We still need to get a down payment and figure out exactly what kind of financing we're ready to get involved with. The car we're looking at now would cost us roughly $225 a month, which is just about what we can afford.
We still haven't gotten around to getting our pictures from Ohio uploaded, but once we sort everything out, I'm sure we'll be able to get those up.
Our prayer is that all of you are doing well and that you're being blessed!
We love you!
Ben and Sarah <><

"Having been set free from sin, you have become slaves of righteousness." Romans 6:18

Lots and lots of snow!

So we just returned yesterday from Troy, Ohio (which is just outside of Dayton). We went with our friend, Emily Poling, to play at her church up there. I have been Emily's guitarist now for about a year and she asked us to play two small shows for First Baptist Church of Troy. We played for the youth group on Saturday night at the Atheletes in Action campus in Xenia and then we played a full concert Sunday night for the whole church. We had so much fun and we WELL taken care of. Sarah and I would both like to thank our hosts for being so wonderful to us all weekend and for being such spectacular people while we were there.
I will try to get Sarah to post the pictures ina day or so.
Love you guys!!
Ben and Sarah Niemann <><
Romans 15:13 May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound in hope.

Crazy weekends!

So we've just gotten through one crazy weekend in time to get ready for the next. Sarah had an old friend stop in for the weekend. So Sarah spent some good quality time with her friend, Stacy, and Lona, Stacy's daughter. I went down to South Carolina to conduct interviews for potential camp staffers for QuestCamp this summer. Everything went well, but it was our first time spending time apart since the wedding. I was definitely glad to be home. This weekend, we're both flying to Ohio to lead worship at a church in Dayton with a friend of ours, Emily Poling. There are going to be about 400 people there for a youth weekend. We fly out on Friday and will be returning Monday afternoon. Please pray for us as we travel and perform. When we get back, we'll try and post some pictures.

Sarah's job is going well. She's a great fit and is finally getting used to her responsibilities. I am super busy with school this month (weekends away make this even worse). I got a promotion at school which is huge because it pays better and gives me a chance to really do more at work.

Oh, AND today is our 6 month anniversary!!! Time flies doesn't it?! We can hardly believe we've been married that long, even though we know there is tons more to come... tons more that we're really excited about. Hooray for anniversaries!

That's all for now. We love all of you and pray that everything is well.

Ben and Sarah Niemann <><
Proverbs 16:9 - A man's heart plans his way, but the Lord directs his steps.

Wake Forest in the Snow!

Alrighty - I finally plugged in our sweet little camera, and downloaded our beautiful snow pictures. Hope you enjoy them! These pics are from both times that it snowed... once this past Thursday, and once about a week ago. We hope that it will snow a little more before this winter is over. It was barely enough to play in - but still gorgeous.:)

New Job, New Semester

Hello again! So we're both really excited about having this site now to stay connected with everyone out there. I've been wanting to post for a couple of days, but I wanted to wait to hear the news about a potential job for Sarah. Well, the verdict is in and....I am now married to the newest member of the Wake Forest Chick-fil-a marketing team. Sarah will be working as an "Outside Sales Representative." That basically means she will be in charge of contacting potential clients for catering and then she will be driving a ridiculous "cow car" (a 4-runner with cow spots, ha ha). You can definitely pray for her to do well in this job. The guy she'll be working for is totally cool, and I think she's gonna be a great fit in this position. It pays pretty good and it will afford us Insurance and hopefully a new (used) car, which is another HUGE thing that everyone can pray for us about. Our cars are hanging on by a thread and it's about time to put them out to pasture, ha.

As for me, I'm in full-swing now with school. I am taking 5 classes: English, History of the Sixties, World Cultures and Religions, Christian Theology 2, and History of Ideas (philosophy). This kind of course load means that I will be stuck in a book most of my waking time for the next 15 weeks. If I'm not reading, I'll be writing papers; I have a billion due this semester. I am still working at the school, looking forward to a promotion at the end of the semester that will just about double my pay, praise the Lord!

It has snowed here twice in the month and it has been lovely! Wake Forest is already such a beautiful town, but when the view is dusted with snow, everything looks so much better. As soon as Sarah uploads the pictures from her camera, we'll be posting those, so be on the lookout.

We love you all!!
Ben and Sarah Niemann <><
Therefore, gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and rest your hope fully upon the grace that is to be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ; as obedient children, not conforming yourselves to the former lusts, as in your ignorance; but as He who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct, because it is written, "Be holy for I am holy."

1 Peter 1.13-16

First Blog on the new site

Well, we've finally gone and done it. We've given our family and friends a way to keep up with us online. From time to time, we will be posting our thoughts and pictures of things that are going on in our lives. We hope that you will all keep checking back. Hopefully, we will have some pictures up very soon! The site has the potential to change a ton in the next couple of weeks as Ben learns how to use it. :-) We love you all so much!!
Ben and Sarah Niemann <><
Ephesians 2:13 - But now in Christ Jesus you who were once far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ.