I miss my Teen Mania Friends.

I miss my core and sister core, intern and CA years. (Except for Todd Falconer, that kid's a punk!)

I miss you guys. Call me or something yo! 813-951-6971

Life....

Ahh, the crazy swings. One minute you're up, the next you're down. I feel the weight, then the weight is gone.

Beauty. Peace. Love.

These are all things right and good. May my life be filled with all things, good and bad, that catapult me into worship of my sweet God and King. Christ the savior, Christ the redeemer. Here is my life and heart found, in the middle of all things He gives and allows in my life. Nothing hits me that hasn't been through His sovereign hand. He holds the world and my heart.

I love Him.

So here's a challenge for you:

"Husbands, love your wives like Christ loves the church."

What?! I am trying to wrap my mind around that and what that looks like in my marriage with Kimmie. So here's what I have come up with so far.

1. As men it is our responsibility to take the initiative. Christ didn't wait around for the church to say "Um, when you get around to it I could sure use some saving. Whenever... take your time..."
2. Serve- In all of scripture I have not found one command for the wife to serve the husband. But we are told and commanded to serve.
3. "Give yourself up"- This is a tough one and it kind of connects to the whole serving concept. But it looks like this I think: I don't have the right to demand my "rights." When I married her I made a commitment and promise to put her needs above my own. That's tough, not just for me, but for everyone. Phillipians 2 makes it even worse by saying that we should not look to our own interests but also to those of others, so now I really don't have any "rights."

Horrible scripture! Impossibly difficult... Praise Christ for grace and the Cross...

So we are FINALLY in our house!!! We moved in about a week and a half ago and since then it has been awesome!!!! Everything is coming together and it really is starting to feel like home. My beautiful wife has done an awesome job getting everything set up and making it feel like a home, not just a big house with a bunch of boxes in it.

Since we moved in my mom and brother have come down and then this last weekend some of my best friends came down and we just freakin partied it up! Not literally, but on Sunday night, Joel, Gabe, and Brodie came down for labor day and we hung out all day yesterday. Poker, wakeboarding, great food, great conversation and lots of laughing. I miss them a lot, but more than that I really miss the depth of friendship that comes with being surrounded by people that love you and you love. I miss being around a group of people who know you. But that's ok. It's all part of this season of life. Life is good. God is good.

My heart is heavy and my soul aches.

Jesus come. Lord come and redeem this broken world. Set everything right. How long? How long before You split the sky and right everything again? When will you come and put to rest all the doubts, all the mockery of Your great Name? I'm so tired of failing to acknowledge God, thinking my way is better, and falling flat on my face. I'm tired of seeing people I love choosing to death over life, pain over your unlimited joy.

Jesus come. Save us. Rend the heavens and obliterate the sin and death in this world. Redeem us oh God!

Come quickly.