seriously?!

while in VA today, i got a call from my wife, who is in IL, she left a message saying that eric's teacher had emailed her and could not get a hold of my mom (who was watching eric) b/c eric had fallen at PE and someone had fallen on him....AND they thought he had broken HIS arm!

seriously?!  sure enough, my mom picked him up and took him to urgent care...broken!  2 in 1 week...  first Kim and now Eric.  

...speechless....

hectic

as if things were not crazy enough around the scott household... I, me... I decided that we should go roller skating on sunday afternoon.  why not, it was kind of cold and very windy outside and we have never taken the kids roller skating.  so, skateport here we come!!  it was exactly like i remembered it!!  seriously, i don't know of anything that had really changed.  ahh, the rink surface was different.  it is now a wooden floor, where as it used to be this powder blue colored some type of hard surface coating thing...

anyway, i had told eric all about the suicides we used to get from the snack shop, you know...where they give you a fountain drink with every kind of soda in it!  it used to sound really good to me for some reason???  and this was where i was introduced to ring pops!  anyone remember those?  oh my goodness, i was so excited to bring back a piece of history and pass it along to my kids! lol  

it took me a few minutes to regain my roller skating prowess...but it came back rather quickly.  it must have been the exact same roller skates they had from 25 years ago.  kinley had NO FEAR!  unbelievable...she was a mad woman, bound to get hurt if someone didnt hold onto her.  she calmed down a little after falling down several times.  eric did awesome!  he picked it up really quick.  i told him that if he could make it a full circle around the rink, i'll buy you the infamous suicide!  he thought that was pretty cool...so he did it!  we met up with the girls in the snack shop and they young girl working the concession stand didn't seem to get the significance of a suicide???  and apparently they are not quite as popular as they were back in the day....but she obliged and eric loved it!  

a little later, kim decided she was going to venture out onto the rink with eric.  and for a while, i think it came right back to her as well.  but only for a while...  she was making her way around the rink and i was watching kinley up on the carpeted area, i looked over to see how they were doing and only saw eric on the rink.  then i saw kim headed back our way on the carpet...i thought, she must have fallen and she is done!  she did and she was!  

we finished up there about an hour later, headed over to mcsalty's for a little pizza and kim said her arm was really hurting if she tried to use it.  i was like, ahh...it's probably sprained or something.  so, we finish up there and go the grocery store.  same deal...she says, i cant lift anything with my left hand.  ok, we'll get home and put some ice on it, i lovingly said.   so, we head home, and when we got here, she started talking about it again.  finally i suggested she go get an x-ray.  this way we will know it is sprained and it will relieve some "worry stress" from her. 

so, she DROVE herself up to the urgent care!  sent me a text about 45 minutes after she got there...it said, "it's broken".  i felt like crap!!  still do!  i hate it for her, she had never broken a bone! 

so, the scott household, which was slammed busy...just picked up a little more!  pray for us if you would.  we are both traveling for work this week!  kinley is flying with meme for some girl beach time.  eric is going to mama's and papa's while we are out of town.  and please pray for kim as she is going to be at a sales meeting, with a broken radius and ulna in her left arm...

that was our weekend.  how was yours?

sour milk...

this is how this morning conversation went...

eric... daddy, can i make me some chocolate milk for breakfast?

me...  sure buddy.

eric... daddy, this milk is out of date.  but only by three days.  mommy said it would be fine yesterday when i got some.  is it ok today?

me...  when is the expiration date?

eric... like, the 18th??

me...  i dont think so, buddy.

eric... (with a serious, grown up look on his face) daddy, it smells fine.  really...it doesn't smell bad at all!

me... (after laughing at his rationalizing) sure buddy.  go for it!

hopefully the expiration date is only a suggested expiration date...lol

looking back

i have a cd in my car, it is a talk that i did at CFC several years ago.  it wasn't a great talk or what i thought was my best, it is just some random cd that i keep in the disc changer.  i listen to it occasionally so that i can remind myself about some of the things that i love.  i made some mistakes in the talk, i can pick my thoughts apart and think of ways that could have been better to say this or that.  but i cant deny that i love being used by God in that forum.

it's good to look back from time to time.  it helps to insure your path for moving on...  sometimes when you get away from what you love, you lose focus on where your going.  you have to look back from time to time...  

just some things im learning...

missions

i was reading the a chapter of don't waste your life by john piper the other day.  also, reading holy discontent by bill hybels.  a dangerous combination, for sure...

holy discontent had a line that is sticking with me... he says,

Friends, in what other life are you going to go all out?  We all have one shot and one shot only to leave a lasting legacy--a definitive mark on this world... A legacy that says, "I have been trusted to carry God's message of hope to an aching, fractured world in need, and I refuse to rest until my role in that is fulfilled."  page 136 (holy discontent).

what a great line!  what other life?  we live that way, don't we?  as if our time here doesn't always matter.  or, we live as if what we are building is going to last forever...either way, it is not reality. the opposite is true.  what we build here isn't making it into heaven and every minute here counts!  i ought to live that way...

Piper states this from the Bethlehem Institute Affirmation of Faith

When this age is over, and the countless millions of the redeemed fall on their faces before the throne of God, missions will be no more.  It is a temporary necessity.  But worship abides forever.  Worship, therefore, is the fuel and the goal of missions. (p162 don't waste your life) 

wow!  what a great thought!  missions is a temporary necessity, but worship abides forever! worship, like singing?  not exactly, yes, but that isn't all of it.  worship like a life style.  worship, like giving.  worship, like loving.  worship, like thanksgiving!  that kind of worship, your life.  my life.  the fuel for missions is that God's name isn't being worshipped!  God alone is worthy of honor and glory and those things are going out to far less things than God.  

somehow in my life, right now, these two thoughts are being connected.  they are birthing something in my heart.  but i didn't get the ultrasound...so, no idea what it is yet...  but, it is very cool.  i always thought God would pop something into my head and poof! there my idea would be and attached to it would me a road map.  i am finding, right now, He is slowly unfolding something in my heart.  it is a lot less like a poof and a lot more like a process.  i think it always has been, i was just looking for the wrong thing.

back to normal...kind of

monday morning, 5 AM, work out...not much of one though, it kicked my butt!  at least i am on the path back to working out and starting my day off right!

wow! we had a good weekend!  friday afternoon i picked the kids up, actually about noon, we surprised mommy at work with some flowers.  then the kids and i went to the discovery center...always a blast!  we met kim downtown at nona's for an early dinner...just a great day/night. saturday, kim got up early (thats a big deal!) and got me some starbucks coffee and breakfast in bed!  thanks mommy!  eric had a ball game later that day, my friend Hayward got to go to that with us...always a plus to hang out with Hayward!  then we came home to prepare our fancy night at home, valentines dinner!  we had steak and lobster tail!  all of us got dressed up in our fancy clothes and ate in the formal dining room.  it was a lot of fun! i hope to have some pics sometime in the future, i'll post them here when i get them.

then sunday...early service at JRA, and i knew from the moment we walked in that it was going to be impacting.  i saw missions banners up along the stair well in the foyer, and just had a feeling that it was good to be going to church with my family!  it has been several weeks since we have been together.  we come in and they are doing this drum beat tribal thing with dancers and fire and video...it was pretty awesome.  then John shared a little about cuba and they showed a video about cuba...very cool what God is doing in cuba.  then, dan betzer, from first assembly fort meyers, fl spoke on missions and faith giving.  let me interject here...i am not a big, capital fund-raising giving guy.  i have never been a part of any pledge deal or anything like that.  it all sounds too churchy to me and i'm out on it.  but this day was different, kim and i are trusting in God to provide an amount of money that we can not.  and when He does, we are giving it to missions around the world!  we will get to partner in making a difference all around the world.  simply, b/c we are trusting in God to do what we can not.  

i am not doing the service justice with my brief babbling about it...but it was awesome!  

in short, too late for that, we had a great weekend and it is really good to be home!  hope your weekend was good too!  later

tired and longing

it is 5 am.  i cant sleep.  i am in my third hotel room in five days.  i am ready to get home later today. i have been away from home 10 out of the last 15 days.   i really really miss my family.  

yet i am extremely blessed and thankful for this time in my life.  

just saying....

the brain,

the brain is a crazy organ!  is it classified as an organ?  i dont even know...and im too tired to look it up. 

i have a thousand things on my mind.  i am in a strange city a long way from home, starting a new customer up tomorrow morning...at 3:30 AM EST! , i miss my family, i havent really been around for a few days in the office, so i feel like i am losing my grasp on leading our company a little bit, AND most of all.. i am praying like crazy for some very dear friends of mine, 

the brain is crazy how it organizes things...things that seem important sometimes get shuffled to the back.   when things that seemingly dont affect me, well, they get ushered to the front.  i dont get it.  it must be how God workis things out, i guess.  

but, i am trusting, a tremendous amount, in God tonight.  i listened to a lot of songs on my trip out here, all about the glory of God.  be glorified, in me....be glorified....in me.  that one keeps sticking out in my head.  it is my prayer.  if you are inclined to do such things....pray with me!  for my friends....God knows the rest...

thanks!

slacker!

wow, i have been a slacker!  listen to my excuse though...it's a good one.....  i have been busy, crazy busy!  AND i have been on vacation!  that is kind of an oxymoron, huh?

either way, it is the truth.  slammed busy, which i am so thankful to God for.  there is no other explanation other than God's favor is with our company.  and i decided a while back that when i went on vacation, 9 guys in Breckenridge, CO, i decided...no computer!, no mobile blogging!, no technology at all.  just hanging out and learning to ski. i'm 34 and have never snow skied.  

 

i picked it up pretty quick.  thanks to david potter for sticking with me and teaching me!  here are a few pics, they do not do justice to how amazing God's creation is!  if you could look at these mountains and have the image of the sun setting into the ocean.  you have to just stand in awe at how creative our God is.   unbelievable!!  even more unbelievable is the fact that he calls each one of us to a purpose.  he has a plan for each of us and he considers us...  in fact, he asks us to be partakers of the promise.  

i love holding onto memories... they inspire me when i am not feeling too inspired.