What's going on...

Hello, hello, love... well, at least it's only been two days since my last post, so I seem to be getting better. Things have been pretty busy around here. I've been fighting both depression and heat, so it seems that all I get done is sleeping right now. I did finally get last Sunday's message put up, but I'm ashamed of the fact that it was two days late. Those of you who are familiar with me know that I always try to make my weekly message priority, which means that I have no problem letting other things go if I need to in order to get the message link up by Saturday evening that it's there for you on Sunday morning. I think you'll agree, though, that the message I have for you this week is well worth the wait. I know it's one that I often need in my own life, and believe that there for honest with ourselves most of us do. I will warn you that right now, you may find quite a few typos in it but I will be cleaning those up within a very short time. We heard from infuriating Emmy last night. They have made it to the work camp in Texas City and had their first days work. Before going from the church they were staying at into the work camp they took time to do some sightseeing and shopping in Houston and went down to the Gulf of Mexico. I'm guessing from the location that this was somewhere around Galveston. Unfortunately they weren't able to go swimming but they still got to enjoy the view. Please, whatever you do, don't tell her I said this, but I'm really kind of looking forward to her coming back on the fourth. Jolly Joe cool is still trying to stay cool. I got a glance of him the other day and I could swear he had a control for Xbox growing out of his ear. But I guess he didn't get to be as good as he is by not playing. Beautiful Becky only has one more class to go in order to finish up for the spring. I have no idea what she has coming up for fall classes but at least she gets about five weeks off between them. And the really great news is during that five weeks she gets to do inventory at the store. Our summer party nights are shaping up pretty well. We start off on July 9 width a live praise banned from our church, hot dogs and chips for every one as well as having the fire department come out to do on hosedown for the kids we passed out 500 fliers this last weekend around the neighborhood and so we are expecting probably to get anywhere from 2 to 500 people however we are preparing for up to 1000. There is no cost for anything so if you happen to be in the area please stop in and see us. We are at Brookside-Vida en Christo United Methodists at 2760 S. Roosevelt Ave. in Planeview in Wichita Kansas. Of course, we do have other things planned for each night but were keeping them under wraps until the time comes. Most of the large entertainment is aimed at children as we are using to recruit for our VBS, our champs program for helping children who need extra school tutoring and also for the new youth group that I will be starting in August. But we do have music and other games and activities for the adults as well. As I said all of this will be free of charge and it doesn't matter who you are, or where you live or go to church everyone is welcome. If you only want to come for the Thursday night parties there will be no pressure put on you to come at any other time however don't be surprised at the number of people who try to make friends with you no matter who or where you are. Well, I promised Jolly Joe cool that I would take some time away from preaching today and let him teach me how to kill mutants. So until next time please remember that we love you here in love and so it is God.

Better Late Than Never

Wow, am I ever ashamed of myself! I came here tonight to make a regularly scheduled blog and noticed that I don't have any sort of regularly scheduled blog. I don't have an excuse for this. I fully intend every time I make a blog to continue to do so on a regular basis. The optimum would be to post every day. But I would probably be happy with twice a week. But over a month? How could I let time get away from me like that? Well I guess all I can does apologize and try again. I think that part of the problem is that I still haven't decided exactly what this blog is for. I know I want to use it to keep you updated on things on the site change. I also want to use it to let you know what's going on in my personal life. That way, you know more about me and understand me personally when you read my messages on Sunday morning. Come on, you do read my Sunday morning messages don't you? And have you noticed that lately that things are changing on the site again? Surely you've noticed all the bright colors and design. I'm sure you've noticed by now that the verse of the day is now in four languages, English, Spanish, French and Vietnamese. And I really hope that you will take time to sign our guestbook and send in any prayer requests you have. You notice that we now have a form on the main page for prayer requests. Don't worry about the fact that it asked for your name feel free send it in anonymously. All that's important is that we lift each other up in prayer when needed. There are a few other changes to the site, but I like to find those for yourselves. As for my personal life, I'm spending most of my time trying to think cool thoughts. Here in Kansas right now we are under heat warnings of night and day. With some of the medicine I'm on I'm supposed to stay out of the sun and heat and be very careful of dehydration. Which means that I get the beautiful Becky shoving water at me every chance she can get to make sure I drink it. This would really be irritating, considering the fact that I detest drinking water, if I didn't know that she was doing it out of love. But be real here, if God had intended us to drink all is water why did he invent Pepsi? I guess it doesn't really matter since beautiful Becky happens to be here, laughing and telling me that I still have to drink the water. Well, God made her too, and he gave her to me as though life mate to watch over me and take care of me, so I guess I'll just set the water next to my Pepsi and drink them both. Infuriating Emmy leaves tomorrow with her church youth group for Texas on their annual mission trip. Don't tell her this but I'm really going to miss her. As a normal 16-year-old girl, she doesn't want to hear about her daddy missing her when she's gone, and remembering the times she used to just be happy snuggling up to him. But you know, she really has grown up into a lovely young woman, and I'm very proud of her heart in the fact that she goes every year to help others. I always looked forward to the look of wonder in her eyes when she returns. These yearly trips really let her see how much God does for her and her own life and make sure want even more to share it with others. And what can I say about Jolly Joe cool? I'm not sure if he's actually trying to set a new world record for videogame playing or if it's just all the emotional turmoil he's been going through. I won't go into details here as it's really not my business to tell things like that, but let's just say, the 2009 may not be his best year emotionally. Not having had what could be called a normal life, I'm not sure if I should have expected this with him or not. I know that all young men have to grow up sometime. I'm just not sure how fast that should be. And I don't know if he should be fighting at the way he is. I do know that he wants to grow up, and yet in so many ways, he also wants to stay a young teenager. Like I said, I know that my life was not a normal one. I went through a lot of the things, a lot sooner, than most young men do. And so it seems like the things I went through, probably between the ages of 13 and 16 he is getting hit with all in this one year. But, while he may be on an emotional roller coaster, she is also very very intelligent. I have no doubt that he will get through this, maybe with a few scars on his heart, but much stronger for all of it. Beautiful Becky, the queen of my heart, the impress of my eye, then meaning for my existence: right now the beautiful Becky is so busy I'm surprised she even has time to remember her name. She's going to a lot of changes at work, she's getting a new manager, I'm sure in time that you use to each other, if he doesn't meet with some very strange and unexplained accident. Not that I believe for one moment that the beautiful Becky would ever do anything violent. In fact, I'm sure she'll have a good alibi. I'm working on several of them for her right now. But I know how much she likes her assistant manager, in fact, she thinks so much of him as she keeps telling me what a shame it is that his old job had to downsize and let him go. And I know that she wants much more for him. After all she keeps talking about how she wishes his old job, would hire him back. Or that maybe he would get another offer from another company where he could do well. But, in spite of all this, she's working very hard not to show the frustrations from trying to do her job was about half as many hours as she needs on top of having to do what they call return to vendors which fills up what little workspace she has, and I'm sure if she ever gets over the fact that she can't find the restroom anymore should be fine and smiling again. And in a couple of weeks she finishes up for spring courses at college. Once she manages to get all of her coursework turned in. She'll have about a month off, and I know that that will do wonders for her. And on the other side, she is not only getting the training she needs at our new church, but she is making many friends there and becoming an integral part of the church itself. She is now the official worship leader, she managed to let herself be nominated and elected by our pastor to hit up the committee for an eight week series of Thursday night. Community parties, that we will be having in order to help bring people into the church. This may not seem like much of a job, but trust me, having to oversee every single detail is more than I could ever dream of doing. And even though she is still in college, and everyone there knows this. Some of them are now are referring to her as the assistant pastor, and the pastor has said something to them to change this. And in fact has actually knowledge that it is true. Also, since our pastor has told her that she is the leader in evangelism team she is working very closely with integrating our English-speaking congregation with our Spanish speaking congregation and making new friends with them as well. So yes, she does take quite busy, but I honestly don't think that she would have it any other way. Well, I have a lot more to say, but I think I'll save it for later day, hopefully even tomorrow. I just want all of you to know how much I appreciate you joining us here at glove. And yes I do realize when one of your answers a post here. I make sure that if it's one of the other blogs besides my own that that writer gives your response brought to their attention. And I want to thank Chris for what he posted on mine. Thank you all for taking the time to reading my posts, and may the Lord be with us all in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen