Amazing How God Keeps Us In Check!!

After having a great day with my family yesterday, I was brought to frustration last night as we tried to get some sleep. For the past week or week and a half we have all been fighting colds and you know what this does to your kids when they try to sleep. Between Coughing, Throwing Up, Crying, and then the guilt I have when I am laying in bed while my wonder wife sits up with Braylon I find a little shut eye.

Through all of this there has been a couple times that I have just wished they were old enough to sleep in their own beds and not in ours. Then I hear this song by Darius Rucker on the radio, and quickly I am reminded to be careful what I wish for. O how HE humble me when I need it most. Melissa, Braylon, And Audrey I love you guys!!!!!

8 Days until Departure

In just 8 days my family and I will be headed to Jamaica Man!! We are really excited to spend sometime together. I charish every moment I have with my family and I really cannot wait to see how they react to the Jamaican people. God is Good All The Time!!

Jamaica!!

In less than 2 weeks Melissa and I will be traveling to Jamiaca!!! We are traveling with Ron Oren and other staff members that run CSI. We will be going for some RNR and more importanlty on some fact finding. Melissa and I have always thought about being full time missions and this experience will give us an oppurtunity to see what that would look like. Not sure where or when we will go, but we believe God has missions planned for our future.

It also helps that it will be 85% everyday we are there :)

OJ Said What??

"The day you take complete responsibility for yourself, the day you stop making any excuses, thats the day you start to the top."-OJ Simpson

How ironic is this quote... As some of you may have noticed everyday I have a sports quote of the day and today was this one. I just thought it was interesting that OJ would have made such a statement. Does the quote "Practice What You Preach" ring a bell O.J.

I'M BACK

WOOOOOHOOOOOOOOO!!!!
I survived my very first basketball sectional at home. Let me tell you I have a good excuse for not posting in the past week in a half. :) Everything went great. I had a lot of wonderful people help me pull this tournament off and I am so thankful that I have people in my life that have my back and are there when I call.

Anyway I got to work outside tonight and go for a walk with my wonderful family and I am a rejuvinated happy man !

O YEAH WE ALSO WON THE TOURNAMENT AND WILL BE PLAYING THIS SATURDAY AT FRANKFORT. 10:00 am against conference foe Daleville. Tickets will be onsale tomorrow...

Rush Hour!!

Today we took Braylon down for a Doctors appointment in Indy (everything turned out just fine, Thank God!!) and started heading home at 4:30. Which happens to be the start of rush hour!!! It takes one trip to Indy for me to remember how happy I am to be in rural randolph county 2 miles from my job. One of the many blessings I forget everyday!

Isaiah 45:22

The blessings from God actually make us lose track of him. I am reading the devotional "My Utmost For His Highest" with my wife and today I read about how God's blessings put strains on our relationships with him and one another. I have never really thought of it in this way but, how true!! God blesses us with: Loving spouses, beautiful children, jobs, money, houses, cars, toys, and much much more!!! What do we allow to take away from our relationshiop with him: all of the above!! God says "Look to me, and be saved" (Isaiah 45:22). This does not sound like an option. We must look to HIM, and BE GREATFUL always.

Just to say it publicly.. I could not do what I do with out the wonderful wife God has given me. I am so happy to have someone in my life that Loves God, and lives to Glorify His Name. Thank You Babe!!