Well, I haven't added to my blog in awhile and so I thought that it was time, so here I am.

For the past couple of months I have felt like I, well... scattered I guess is the word that I am looking for. I have just felt like I have been spinning my wheels and not getting anywhere. And to be totally honest , I was tired of not getting anywhere and wondering what I was doing, and what God with my life

Well, one day last week I rode with Regina to school in Lubbock because we had a meeting with a tax guy later that afternoon, and I sat in the car while she went to class, and tried to read. I had a lot of things going through my head and so I was unable to focus on a book. I had the windows rolled down and there was a breeze coming in and it felt so good, and I could see out into a field and see the grass blowing in the wind and it caused me to think and reflect on my feelings and what I was going through.

The cool breeze blowing in reminded me of who God is and that I needed to not rely on myself to be doing things, but God. God is working in my life whether I feel like he is or not. God is like the wind, we can feel him but we cannot grasp him, and sometimes I don't like that! But I am positive that is the way it needs to be.

If you are struggling with the way things are going in your life, go outside and take a deep breath and remember that God is in control and that we just need have faith in him that he is working and that he provides. That air the you breath deep into you lungs is provided by God not by anything that you have done, and you breath it everyday no matter what happens. We must have the same faith and breath God in everyday no matter what.

Breakfast!

Well hello! and good Morning! I don't know if it is really morning when you are reading this but, i am going to take a shot in the dark and hope that I am right.

This past Saturday morning Regina and I decide that we would make some pancakes, so we went into the kitchen and began to whip some up. Well I got this fun idea that we should do some different shapes just to switch it up a little bit, and so we did as you can see in the picture, and it was alot of fun. We decided when the time comes and we have little ones that we need to remember this idea, because kids would love it (don't you think)? Well they were wonderful pancakes and I was full for awhile until lunch time, but it made me feel better all day. I spent time with my beautiful wife and I got to feed my stomach, what could be better than that?

I began to think about my spiritual life and how it relates to this cooky breakfast adventure, and this is what I came up with. I am convinced that whatever we do we must spend time with our father just as I must spend time with my wife, and what better time than in the morning, at the beginning of the day before you do anything. After all he is the one that gave you the day to serve him so at the beginning of the day is when we should thank him for it. Now here is something that I have made the mistake doing and hopefully you can learn from my mistakes, you could have alot to learn when you think about it. lol. I have made the mistake in the past of spending time with God but it was all one sided. I would spend time praying with him every morning on the way to work or when I woke up ,but I would not listen to what he has to say. I think alot of times we get up and spend the time with God but we never eat our spiritual breakfast, because we ignore his word and what he is saying to us. If you are going to get up early why not eat breakfast to. We cannot neglect God's word in our life because if we do we are not only starving ourselves but we are hindering our growth by not letting God feed his child.

I encourage you to get up in the morning and have breakfast, both physically but more importantly spiritually. Have a great day!!!!!

He will handle it.

Do you remember when you were young and you would something and mess it up, and thinking to yourself, well that's ok, Dad can fix it, he can handle it. Well to tell you the truth, I still think, and do that, and to be totally honest I probably do it to much. But then again? Do I? Now whenever I have a problem I call my Father and say Dad I have a question, What would you do?

Now some people would say that I need to grow up and learn how to do things on my own, but you know what I think? I think that is one of the things that is wrong with the world.

You see we think that we need to grow up and do things on our own when in fact we need to go to our heavenly Father and say, I have a question, What would you do? We have made the mistake of trying to do it on our own and I don't think it is working because we stink at doing things on our own and have fallen flat on our face.

One of the reasons that we do things on our own is because the world tell us we must "grow up",which is a bunch of bull honkey, because I believe that is how you grow closer to God, by bringing your problems to him and listening to him and spending time with him. That is truly how to grow up and mature and be the person that God wants you to be by asking him who he wants you to be. I have grown so much closer to my earthly Father by asking questions and listening to him.

There are several reasons why we keep things problems to ourselves but, there is one more that I want to talk about.

I am convinced that we don't bring our junk and our struggles to God because, we don't believe that he can handle it, or that he wants to handle it, and that is wrong. The thing that we have to do is not just know that he can deal with it, but believe in him, and have a faith that says "I believe that you will handle whatever problem or junk that I have but that you will also handle me and that you love me God", and that is extremely hard to do.

That is what I am challenging you to do and myself to do, take everything that you have to the Lord, good or bad he wants to hear them both. He can handle that sadness, and the excitement.

I am thankful for both my Dad and Mom, they have helped me and my family through all of our junk and they still love us, and we still love them. I know that one day they will not be here on this earth any more, and when that day comes I will be devastated, but my parents have taught me that there is a heavenly father that I can take all my problems to and I am thankful for them teaching me about God and his great unending love. House picture soon I promise!! lol I love you!

Bone In or Bone Out

Last night Regina and I went to pizza hut here in Levelland because we both had a craving for over priced pizza and some good chicken wings. (that was a joke sort of). As we set down and looked at the menu Regina said that she would like bone out chicken wings, and so I agreed and we ordered that along with a pzone that we split. Well our food came and we began to indulge ourselves on these glorious honey barbecue chicken wings

As I was stuffing my face and belly I started to ponder which kind of wing was better. Was it the wings with the bone in or the ones with the bones out. I thought of many pros and cons like, how messy each of them were, or which one I look better eating, so on and so forth. There are many more but I will spare you.

Well the answer that I came up with is that it depends on the mood that I am in. I know that is not great answer but it is the truth. I will say this though, i believe that you get more satisfaction out of eating the wings with the bone in, because you have to work for it. You can eat a wing and see your work and say " Man I did a good job on that wing"

On a little more serious note, I believe that in today's society and in our spiritual life even, we don't want to have to work for things. We want everything given to us and it be easy and not realistic. This is something that I am convinced that we all struggle with including, Yes even me. (that was a joke all the way). I would love to be able grow spiritually without the struggles and the pain, and work ,but how would I appreciate it if that is how it worked?

Psalms 119:67- Before I was afflicted I went astray, but now I obey your word.

My challenge for myself and you if you accept it is, to not be a lazy consumer christian, and to continue to work and to grow and serve my Father as he has called us to do. If we do this I believe that not only will we have salvation but we will have more satisfaction and a true relationship with God. I also want to be able to rejoice when I am facing trials and struggles because through that I know that I will grow closer to him.

That is a lot of thinking coming out of chicken wings. I hope to have pictures up soon of our newly painted living room and dining room! After all this is call Joey and Regina's life. lol

The Dark Side

Well, if you are reading this you must know that I have started a blog. I have been very reluctant to start a blog because, to be totally honest with you , I have always thought that "bloggers" were nerds (no offense honey). However I have decided to to go the dark side and be a nerd and go through with it.
There are other reasons why I didn't want to blog so to speak, and one of those being that I don't necessarily want everyone to know what I am thinking or going through in my head because many things you need to keep to yourself, right? I could go on about why I did not want to blog but why be negative.
Here is the reason why I am starting a blog. If you know me well and I call you often you know that when I call I just vomit out what is going through my head whether you want to hear it or not. I know that can get tiresome and annoying sometimes, or you miss what I am talking about because I am talking so fast. In this blog I will be talking about the random stuff in my head that you normally hear when I call and talk to you, and maybe I wont call you as much and vomit out what is going on in my head (highly unlikely,but if you miss something that I vomit out you can come to my blog and look it up.)
I hope you enjoy this blog, and that you add your mental overflow to it, and we can have interesting conversation about God, music, movies, books, food, art maybe and just life in general? Come enjoy! Thanks!