Sunday

... is my favorite day of the week. Hands down. I'm not so sure I would have said that ~ 25 years ago. I think when I was growing up Sunday was not so fun because it involved wearing uncomfortable clothes, taking naps (by force and not of my own free will), and knowing that the weekend was almost over. Nowadays Sunday and I are good 'ol pals. Here's why:

• life seems to slow down enough to let me collect my thoughts
• dedicated family time
• fellowship with my brothers and sisters in Christ
• naps
• sports on tv
  
• new mercies which allow me to start a week afresh in the morning

May you enjoy your Sundays as much as I enjoy mine.

Grace and peace!

Here today, gone tomorrow

Does your life ever resound with the same theme for an extended period of time? Mine sure does. It seems this year has presented me the opportunity to learn how to refocus my time, energy, and thoughts on what is truly important in life.

For example, we have recently had our grass destroyed by ferocious, white, evil, little grubs. The grubs have enjoyed my entire backyard as their own little 24 hr buffet. For most people I would imagine this might not be such a bad gig, since it would reduce the times they would have to mow. Although for me, I really enjoy and take a lot of pride in having a nice, lush, green yard. I don't necessarily like to mow, but I do like being outside and doing little landscaping projects.
So now when I look out my window and see this: it is quite disconcerting. These pesky grubs have once again revealed my ugly tendency to attempt to gain my worth from worthless things. Why oh why do I do this? Will I ever come to a place where I am able to get my identity from Christ alone? From my health to my lawn, I have learned that just about everything is here today and gone tomorrow. God Almighty and His kingdom are the only things that are worth holding onto.

First Post...

Well, here it is. My first thoughts (no pause here :) on the world wide web. It feels good to finally be catching up to the 21st century. It feels like since Austin was born, 6.5 years ago, I have had to lay aside somethings in my life - including creating a blog/webiste.

I hope to use this venue to keep everyone up to date on the ins and outs of our family. Tara does such an amazing job of this by posting pictures to Snapfish, so I am hoping I can help contribute with videos and postings. The first video I will post includes home videos from this summer. Our trip to San Antonio, TX; a rare glipse into the average morning of Alexia Noel at the age of 19 months and lastly some classic video of Carson and Austin learning to ride their bikes without their training wheels.

Enjoy!

In Him,
Jeff