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Embrace Life –

// June 17th, 2010 // 1 Comment » // My Favorites

Words cannot describe how beautiful and impacting this video is…

Tags: Family, Love, video

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Baby…

// May 9th, 2010 // No Comments » // My Life

Little did I know that we would be here… that our lives would look like this. I can honestly say that If it were not for you backing me  up… encouraging me.. and yes sometimes dragging me along I would not be the man I am today… I would probably not be the proud owner of a new home either. I sometimes think I hold myself back more than anyone… yet you are always right there when I want to back up… pushing… just enough to make me go forward, to grow, to become more… to be creative and bless and serve others.

I remember your first Mothers Day… I spent everything I had to buy you a KitchenAid  Mixer… and you made me take it back because you wanted jewelry… I knew right then and there I bit off more than I could chew by marrying you! :)   I swore to you there that you would not get one for 5 years I was so ticked off … here we are almost eight years in and it seems the elusive KitchenAid mixer is always just out of reach… I see every time you look at the bright red”Anniversary Editions” with all of their cool features… and I promise myself that it will be the next gift you get!…. but then there is the new house… and all the things to work on there… sometimes it seems so far away… but you are always so patient…

We have a good year ahead of us… debt free… a new home(the first with enough counter space for a Kitchen Aid mixer)… 3 kiddos and we are still going strong… looks like that Kitchen Aid is not so far off after all… :)

Happy Mothers Day

Tags: Family, mothers day

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Pipeline

// May 1st, 2010 // 4 Comments » // My Life

My dad has always been a bit eccentric in my opinion…I love him to death but sometimes I just had to cock my head sideways, wondering exactly where he was coming from. One of the things he did pretty often (if not every night) was step out side and walk on his “pipeline”. We actually lived right beside a natural gas pipeline and the clearing ran right along the side of our property, which happened to make a great driveway…. a 300 foot long driveway! but I digress… Dad would quietly step outside just about the time the evening chatter had grown to a dull roar. Sometimes one of us would notice and look out the window to see him… just standing… or walking slowly… kicking rocks… or kneeling looking down next to a clump of grass. We might watch him for a while… and wonder what he was doing… He said he talked to God out on the pipeline… I often wondered if Dad thought maybe if he “walked with God” out on the pipeline enough God would just translate him like he did Enoch in the bible… Sometimes we walked with him on his pipeline… we would chatter and talk… and play… and he would walk… and point out little things… like bugs busy with their little lives… As I got older I had some walks on the pipeline with him… and a few times I tried by myself… when he had a really bad spell of depression and would hardly come out of his room. For some reason the pipeline just wasn’t the same experience for me that it was for Dad… I shrugged it off as part of his “eccentric” nature.

This evening I went to the new home we bought to work on some plumbing repairs that I wanted to have done before we moved in… as I finished up, I closed the house and walked outside… It was about 12:00 and would have been pretty dark if not for the huge full moon glowing over the freshly plowed fields behind my house. I stepped out to the driveway… suddenly noticing the noise of the city far in the distance… like an annoying mosquito hovering around one ear. I walked out to the south side of my property… Ironically enough a long driveway runs along the side of my property for access to the fields behind it. I took a few steps as I breathed in the cool night air… gazing at the huge full moon sprinkling silver over the tops of the fields. The sky felt like it wanted to just swallow me up it looked so big… the stars seemed close enough to touch… I ambled along just drinking in the quiet… and suddenly I was talking… to God… and walking… and laughing… and crying… wondering how I could be walking so closely in my father’s footsteps… even being hundreds of miles away… I was filled with amazement that all along I had been thinking I was buying a house with a yard and great trees and all that good stuff… when all I was really doing… was finally buying… my very own… Pipeline.

Tags: Family, home, life

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Home

// April 27th, 2010 // 1 Comment » // My Life

I have rented for longer than I can remember… and honestly I didn’t mind it much.. I liked the lack of responsibility and no yard work… to me renting just made sense in some odd way. As I have gotten older though a weird need to kinda “stick” somewhere started taking hold and we started looking for a house… we looked for months… found a lot of nice stuff way out of our price range but nothing that fit us… I wanted something just outside town on an acre or two and a single story ranch with an open floor plan. finally after months of looking we found the perfect place… we loved it… we tried to get a loan… and our credit was just not good enough…the last vestiges of my messy divorce was still on the records. we went back to the perfect little house and looked at it… how could this not be it? Suddenly I was struck with the need to talk to God about it… “God… we love this property… this house… these trees…it fits us… we really want this house… can you please save it for us until we can get things fixed? Amen.

We started working hard to rebuild our credit… cleaning up things with the credit bureaus is a tough job… but we just stuck to it… paid off a lot of debt… found some debt we didn’t know we had… paid it off too! a year and a half later we realized we really needed to be more aggressive and we rented the cheapest crappiest apartment we could fine…we have been shoved into this thing for over 6 long winter months…

Last week we closed on our first home… a place just outside town, on an acre, single level ranch, with an open floor plan. As we stepped out onto the grass in front of our new home… I stopped… standing right where I prayed 2 years ago… “God… you are awesome… and forever faithful, thank you for saving this home for us… and may we always share it with others so that they can see your provision in their lives also… Amen.

Suddenly… in a little town in Kansas…we were finally Home.

Tags: Family, home

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I Don’t Think You Could Say This any Better!

// April 27th, 2010 // No Comments » // My Favorites

Tags: Christianity, Family, poetry

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Kalleigh’s toes

// April 23rd, 2010 // No Comments » // My Life

I painted kalleigh’s toenails today

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