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some good reading

so, i told you why i dont blog sometimes...so, i thought i would just show you some really good stuff that I am reading on the web...

• Gary Lamb is talking about "change" this week.  This post was pretty much a kick in the junk about being selfish.
• Jon Acuff over at SCL had a great post today!  I love his sense of humor and the truth he conveys.
• Carlos Whitaker showed his heart in this post about his wife and her looking at porn!
• Seth Godin posted an article written by another guy that is absolutely inspiring and phenomenal! 

those are just a few of the things that are stretching me.  enjoy!  

btw...did you notice my punctuation in the above list?  nice, huh...i am growing up i guess...lol

why i dont blog

i come to this page here sometimes, and i get distracted. i read what others are saying before i say anything. then my thoughts get all jumbled up and my time was spent on reading intsead of saying. (which i am pretty sure i learn more that way...lol) OR what i want to say is said much more eloquently some where else...so i just move on to the next project.

not sure if this matters to anyone, just wanted to give you my excuse for today as to why i dont blog much! haha...

i am being stretched as a leader and i am growing/being stretched in my spiritual walk. i just dont know how much of it i want to talk about on here. so, if you are into praying and stuff....i would appreciate prayer.

have a good week!

a little serious...and a lot funny

we went to dinner tonight at angeli's.  i asked if eric would like to pray for us at dinner.  he said, "sure!"  he started praying and about 1/3 of the way through, kinley yelled, "AMEN!".  eric replied, "NO!".  then resumed praying like nothing had happened, saying..."sorry about that Lord...." 

kim and i have had quite the laugh over that all night tonight!

who i am...

who i am...i am reminded today, and quite a bit here lately, about who i am.  fran had left this comment mentioning that she had been digging into a particular verse in lamentations.  It sparked an interest with me...i read lamentations 3 and then i had to do some digging of my own.  who wrote this book, what was the context, who was he writing to...  i kept coming back to chp. 3 though, and i couldnt help but notice the change that occurs in the believed author Jeremiah. he is mad at God at first, or at least he is willing to be honest about how he feels, which is revealed in v. 1-20 .  then something happens, he says this in v. 21, "Yet this I call to mind and therefore I have hope." this isnt a bible lecture, so i wont un-pack the rest of the text...but the verses that follow describe that hope.  it describes an understanding of sorts, a peace.  

Oct. 24, 1972.  Scotty was born.  my brother...he has been gone nearly 6 and a half years now.  he would have been 36 today.  man, i miss him.  and although i was angry and i don't understand why, i now have hope and i know that it is ok.  and who i am today, is largely due to what God has done in my life, through scotty's death.  that is why i have hope.  that is how i know that Jesus Christ lives.  that is who i am...

(the pic is of scotty and our nephew, julian...several years back!)

watch this!

you have to watch this video!  i would love to know what questions this raises in your mind.

first saw this here

the picture...

i have told several of you the story behind the picture as the header of my blog.  for the others that i havent...here it is.

we went on a family vacation 2 years ago to california.  we visited my sister and her family up around sacramento.  while we were with them we traveled to san francisco for a weekend.  we got to visit alcatraz, ride the cable cars, tour the city, go across the golden gate bridge...as i think about it, we accomplished a ton in a short amount of time!  anyway, the picture came from one of the piers at san francisco, i cant remember which one.  we were walking around by pier 39 and we just decided to walk up a ways and there was this thing(the pic).  i am not even sure what it is called.  there are signs in the pic...but of course, i didnt read those!   the sun was setting and that ship was out in the bay and everything just kind of fell into place for what turned out to be a great picture.  (i took about 20 to get that one...gotta love digital!)

if you are ever out that way, check out the pier.  there is a ton to see there, including the sea lions.  that could have been one of our best vacations.  

have a great weekend!