You can almost taste it…

The depth chart for the Nevada game has been released at huskers.com.

Some commentary and reader comments here.

Stay tuned for my pregame prediction in the next day or two.

A million dollar question

Consider yourself warned…

I just started reading A Full Quiver, by Rick and Jan Hess. The subtitle is "Family Planning and the Lordship of Christ," and the focus, as I understand it so far, is on thinking about children the way God thinks about them, rather than how the World thinks about them. As I progress through the book, you can expect some of my thoughts and observations to make their way into blog format.

As you anxiously await further musings on this topic, consider the following questions from the book:

Would you rather win one million dollars in the lottery or have another child?

–or–

Would you rather win ten thousand dollars in the lottery or have another child?

–or–

How much would God have to pay you to convince you to have another child?!?

For me, these questions were helpful in "diagnosing" my perspective on children. Though it wasn't in the book, one more question dawned on me that really cleared things up:

If you already have children (or a child), which of them would you be willing to sell back to God for one million dollars?

If that question is preposterous and offensive, then why are we OK with the idea of forfeiting "not-yet-conceived children," or even going to extreme measures in order to eliminate the possibility of having more kids? If we have a "Children are a blessing, but…" mindset, where can we logically draw a line between enough and too many? If God calls children a blessing, and it is God's business to decide how and when to give this blessing, it seems biblically inconsistent that we would take the reins on this issue and decide to limit the number of blessings we are willing to receive.

If we can't trust God to manage the number of children he decides to bless us with, what can we trust him to be in control of?