My Family

I am trying to get back into the BLOGosphere... posting more thoughts and learning to add photos... Here is a pic of my family!!! Rachel and I, Madeline (age 5) Samuel (3) and Lee and Tomlyn (2). I am a blessed man...

Good Summer

It has been a good summer. Our kids have moved to the "non-stroller" era freeing us up to go more places. God continues to grow our marriage and family towards His ways. I got to experience two days with our Youth Group in Mexico with our new youth pastor. What an amazing group!! God has shown me how much I need Him!!!Our church family(www.crossroadsdecatur.com ) has been able to experience a permanent facility. We have added several new faces to our church family. I have got to play golf more than once and play in a scramble with Cody Wadsworth, Jim Reynolds and Stephen Bailey!!! In fact- I got reconnected with Stephen after a long spell. I learned to play 42. God has worked miracles in the lives of the people I serve. I found a deer lease that I get to hunt on with my good old Friend Eric Fleming. Madeline and Samuel got to drive (with their dad) a CAT DC-6 bulldozzer with Bobby Mayfield. We celebrated the 4th of July in our back yard sending fireworks over our (and our neighbors) back pastures!! Listening Samuel scream with excitment when the "Texas Screamers" went off was worth every bit of the $50 I spent. God has broken areas of pride off my heart- still a long ways to go - but progress. I got to help teach Madeline and Samuel how to swim. Rachel and I finally established a pretty routine date night!!! I learned how to really pray for my family. My church has continued to let me learn how to preach... and not shot me. God has delivered me from strongholds I have had my whole life!!! I have grown very close to two leaders in my church: Todd Parks and Bill Sandford. Our staff has come together!! What a team!!! I am learning to live in the present. Judging people and other churches is looking more and more stupid to me. On our family we have started a new tradition of eating breakfast at the Cracker Barrel...comfort food baby!!! Our church has seen 40 men get into discpleship groups and meet weekly with two of them: Donald Willis and Jeremiah young- two pilgrims who want God 90 proof (inside joke). How can I be so blessed!!!

Our whole family has been illness free for over 2 months, we have food on the table and the riding lawn mower for our ranchette has run like a top. What more could you ask for?

God is so good. It has been a good summer.