I'm so stinkin lazy!!!

I was sitting up here at my computer, feeling a little thirsty. I've become picky with drinking water though... I don't really like it straight from the tap. I prefer the water that comes out of the filtered dispenser on my refrigerator. It tastes better (I think) and it's a few degrees cooler. I was thirsty, but I didn't want to walk all the way downstairs and into the kitchen, and dirty another glass just for some water. I'm battling some allergies, so I went downstairs anyway to get the allergy medicine. I decided to get the small glass instead of the large glass.

As the cool, refreshing, filtered water filled my glass I remembered Mark Hall's (Casting Crowns) talk with us about his trip to a third world country where the children would travel down into a valley where water would gather from the surrounding terrain, then they would travel back up with the water, and sometimes make this trip a few times/day. And this wasn't water to drink, this was just water to bathe themselves, to water their livestock, and to clean their clothes. The drinking water was another mile or so away.

This is worth knowing:


Casting Crowns Video

A Poem

There's a line in a song that says "it's a slow fade" talking about the "fading" of relationships over time and that it is so important to keep watch over the covenants you have entered into in your life, and to trust in the grace and power of God in restoring brokenness.


covenants do not dissolve as does alka-seltzer

not right before your eyes...
unless you're filming a documentary
and following in disguise
Of course you'd have to predict it
know the signs early on
maybe start filming before
the covenant has officially begun
Then how long to you have?
2 years or twenty?
What will you do with the down time?
You will surely have plenty

No, they fade over time though they seem to break suddenly

Who can see the heart?
Who can know the minds of men
Who can see the start?
It grows silently like a tumor
When finally seen, accelerating and consuming
Becoming a complicated web
So hopeless and confusing
You never hear the crescendo
Just the triumphant collision
You hardly know the questions
Before you're faced with the decision

Chase the foxes out of your garden.

How much care do you take?
with small things day to day
What do you forsake?
To feed your selfish ambition
Don't put it off another day
A covenant is not a convenient thing
Yet the impossible still finds a way
To break through our apathy
In and out of season
With or without passion
Sometimes it's even better without a reason

Covenants are kept not by our strength but by His

We are cursed and gone astray
The covenant of life was broken so easily
We cannot even make a way
back to the light that created us
In this hopelessness we cry
The Father hears and answers
And sends his son to die
And we are being saved,
Our broken covenants are being restored
To him and those to whom we've pledged our lives and our love
When we recognize and live in the forgiveness of a wage we could never afford.

A post before bedtime

I told my wife I was coming right to bed, but I've gotta put something up here so here it is...

My wife reminds me daily how patient and understanding she is because I show her daily how selfish and retarded (yes, retarded) I can be.

My son is amazing. He's so strong and fearless (I think he gets it from me) yet he's so dependent and trusting. He expects and believes that we will take care of his needs.

I am so thankful for these wonderful people who bring so much light and joy to my heart. God, forbid that I would ever in any way forsake this wonderful family.

Study Material... If I could just make faces like that when I play

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