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this is going to be a short little blog. i need to start using this bc i need to start keeping people up with my life, and what a better design than this (with the exception of vlogs. i wish i could get the nerve to do a few)

so since my last post - 6.21.07 - a quite a bit has transpired...

- i've fallen in love more and more everyday with a pretty incredible girl. sure, we poke at each other once and again, but i love it.
- bc of the previous, i decided 'what the heck' and asked her if she wanted to do the previous for the rest of our lives. she didn't say anything. she just nodded her head for quite a while with a great big grin on her face. it was one of the best moments of my life.
- we decided that we need to go somewhere. i've been looking at a bible school in california since about march and we checked it out on labour day weekend. it looks like we could be there by january.
- because of the previous, we decided on a shot gun wedding (11.11.07), to sell her house, to quit her job and eventually mine, pack up things in a car that we need to buy, and then...head west.
- we've honeymooning in italy. pimp.
- also, just for important date reasons (and so far this is all we have): wedding shower for nell in fay on 09.22, bach party for me - fly fishing on the white - 10.26-10.28, wedding is 11.11, and honeymoon is 11.12-11.21. we still have a lot to figure out, huh? suggestions are welcome!

driscoll's challenge

so, as i'm going through nehemiah these days, i like how drsicolls settles in on tangents and challenges me. today, he went through ch. 7, where, pretty much, nehemiah goes into the jerusalem phone book. but driscoll went on to explain that the culture would live to leave legacies for 7 to 10 generations out. he challenged me to live in light of that.
like, what if we lived and prayed that our children and their children and theirs and theirs and theirs would have interaction with jesus and live under scripture's authority and fight oppression and evil in the name of christ? what if we're in heaven one day and this guy comes up to us with the same last name and told us that they lived for christ because of the prayers and pleas i made with God that echoed generations away?
it's an interesting thought. so many of us live for our 401k's, ira's, and social securities. what if we lived for out children's children's children's souls? what does that look like?

nehemiah, prayer, and memaw

so, i just started mark driscoll's series on nehemiah. when i ran into it, my immediate thought was how little i spend diving into the old testament. it's rich. and he's good. if you're a podcaster, it's under one of the mars hill bible churches.

god's teaching me a lot about prayer. nehemiah is key on that (maybe a reason i'm enjoying this series)... but it's more than that. a few weeks ago, the eddlemans, nellie and i went to their grandmother's house in columbus, ms for memorial day weekend. i enjoyed it and we walked away with a few hilarious moments, but there were two things that really stuck out to me. 1) meemaw's walk. her realness, prayerfulness, and longing for christ. you could see it in little moments of the day when she'd stop and just pray. or when she just stared off, you could tell that she was thinking deeply or praying or engaging something bigger. that challenged me. the second thing that stuck out was one morning while i was up earlier than everyone else, i was outside playing with the dog and she came out and in the middle of small talk, she looks dead at me and speaks some major truth into my life regarding some big time struggles i'm dealing with. (i know that was vague...) i guess that taught me more about prayer and the engagement of the spirit... it was powerful.

cowboys

i went to dallas this weekend with 14 other dudes. maybe 15.
we did nothing but watch football.
except we played football.
and traveled to a sports bar to watch more football.
we met some dallas cowboys.
we played on texas stadium field.
we went to the village church(.net).
i'm sold on the church.
we saw the colts end a 9 game winning streak.

letters

okay, so today i was working. and was bored. and complained. i was told to have fun. "be balance like the chinese." so.. i did. kinda. i found a box of letters that you put on signs outside companies and stuff. so...

first i organized them

then, i thought i'd be balanced

who says that? me. but it is..

...might could maybe.. wanna

bring back the 80s




like i warned, this is anti climatic. but i did have fun. thanks.