Good morning America

That I did always love,
I bring thee proof:
That till I loved
I did not love enough.

That I shall love away,
I offer thee
That love is life,
And life hath immortality.

This, dost though doubt, sweet?
Then I have
Nothing to show
But Calvary.

4am

I should be in bed.
But before I go I'll leave you with some words written by Emily Dickinson.

If I can stop one heart from breaking,
I shall not live in vain;
If I can ease one life from aching,
Or cool one pain,
Or help one fainting robin
Unto his nest again,
I shall not live in vain.

Goodnight.

There's no place like home.....

Friends and family are where it's at.

Back in Black

And so.....I'm back after about a months hiatus.

The last 30 days has had it's ups and downs. I have grown and learned a bunch, but let's just say I'm glad to be on the other side of it.

I'll be in the UK with my family for the next month. I'm currently sitting next to my Dad watching the MLB All Star game and I'm heavily jet lagged so writing a coherent blog is a bit of a challenge at the moment.

I'll be in touch :)

When all else fails.

Whom have I in heaven but you?
And earth has nothing I desire besides you.

My flesh and my heart may fail,
but God is the strength of my heart
and my portion forever.

I've been running in the morning for the last two days. It's been great. I go through the rest of my day with a clear head and a functioning metabolism. What more can a guy ask for?

Listening to :

A_cross // The_earth - Tear down the walls

Learning to love...

I was reading in John 13 this morning.

“Before the Passover celebration, Jesus knew that his hour had come to leave this world and return to his Father. He now showed the disciples the full extent of his love. So he got up from the table, took off his robe, wrapped a towel around his waist, and poured water into a basin. Then he began to wash the disciples' feet and to wipe them with the towel he had around him.”

John 13:1, 4-5

The main thing that jumped out at me was that the full extent of Jesus’ love was to wash His disciples feet. What does that tell me? The greatest way to show love is to serve when there is no obligation. These were the guys that Jesus had been discipiling and pouring into since the start of His ministry. If anything they owed Him a service!

If the full extent of of the most perfect love the world has ever seen came in the form of servant hood, then that tells me a lot on how I'm supposed to go about showing love.

Saying those three words is great, but I need to start showing them too.

Funday Sunday!

This is an interesting article [click here]

I'm going to ask myself these 20 questions every Sunday and post the responses on here.

Stay tuned for the first installment.

Real blog coming tomorrow.

Talk about goosebumps...

Thanks to the lovely Melodie Knight....I found this on her blog

I've seen it a couple times now, but it cuts me to the core every time.

And so it begins...

First off, let me start by saying welcome and thanks for stopping by! I have been meaning to start a blog for a while now, and finally got around to doing it tonight while eating some delicious homemade pizza, courtesy of the ever hospitable Coverdales.

I'm excited about this. Really excited. The concept of writing what's on my heart somewhere within reach of the general viewing public is pretty new to me, but I think I'm going to learn a lot about myself along the way and hopefully you gain some insight into how I do life in the middle of it all. We're in this thing together.

This season of life for me is really great. Life is good. A lot is changing, but there are some really cool things on the horizon. I can feel it. I woke up Monday morning feeling like a new man with a clean slate to write on. It was like that feeling on the first day of the New Year. That feeling of anything is possible. Why this particular Monday morning? Well...God has been working on my heart in a huge way this past month, major open heart surgery. He is showing me how to accept His grace and love even in those times when I feel like I've totally blown it. I can be really good at beating myself up in order to ease my conscience, but I'm finding true freedom comes from realizing that He took the beating so I don't have to. Simple stuff, I know. But it's one thing knowing it in your head and another to really grasp it in your heart. I guess that learning to live in that amazing grace brings that fresh feeling every morning, because it hasn't left yet and I'm loving it!

Anyway....Jeremy said numero uno had to be epic and I gave it my best shot. My desire is that this blog will be a reflection of me. So with that in mind, I'll be posting a lot of different things on here; reflections, devotional thoughts, daily happenings, music that I'm really digging, pictures, dreams, stories from the past, hopes for the future, you name it. I hope you enjoyed this post and all the others that are in the future, I could keep writing, but it's late and my new Ikea sheets are calling my name.

Currently listening to:
Fernando Ortega - Storm