FULL potential

Don't you just love those experiences in life when you do something and you instantly know that you just SUCKED?

Well I had one of those experiences this past Sunday at church, and there is a BIG reason behind it. One of my biggest passions in life is leading worship.....I LOVE it, and truly believe that God has given me a gift for leading. Here's the problem. When I don't stay connected to Christ He can't use me like He wants to in this area of my ministry. In other words, I will not reach my FULL potential in Christ.

Lately, I have been a complete slacker with my time with God, and it showed this Sunday. I was singing one of my favorite songs and COMPLETELY lost it on a high part. If you were there I'm REALLY sorry you had to sit through that! Now some will say that it was just too high for me to be singing in the first place.....and it may very well have been, but I also believe that God was trying to tell me something on Sunday. First, that I am a piece of crap without Him....Secondly, I will never fully worship Him if I'm not staying connected to Him during the week like I should.

I made a vow to God Sunday to step up to the plate and stop slacking so much. Join me in prayer that I will stay disciplined and follow through with my promise. There's nothing worse than making a promise to God and not following through with it, in fact He frowns BIG upon that!

If I love God like I say I do then my life and time with Him should show it! Does this have anything to do with you or your life???

Are you reaching your FULL potential?

so it's been a while...

I know that it has been a really long time since I've posted anything, but I have good reasons. First school got out, so I've been really busy spending time away from computers! Then I started working at my good old summer job CRC (conway rental center), and that takes up A LOT of time if we're busy that is.

Last month I turned 26, and that still sounds SOOO OLD to me!!! I love it when people ask you, "so how does it feel to be 26?". I always say, "it feels just like it did every other birthday". I don't really feel like my body is going to crap, and I still have all the energy in the world. I'm not one to let age get me down. I plan on going full speed up until I die. That's why when people ask me what I'm going to do about my tattoos when I'm an old man, I say probably get another to cover up the old ones. Then again my skin is probably going to be pretty saggy, so I prob won't care what ink blobs I have on it!

Today has been a great day so far. I woke up, fed Gray some breakfast, and then watched the little mermaid and cinderella with her and Hannah. Now as I write this I'm sitting on our screened in porch listening to the rain and watching Hannah paint something for our living room.

I think later we are going to head over to a friend of our's store and get some boiled peanuts. Saturday my parents are coming into town, mainly to see Gray, but I look forward to seeing them too! I will have to say that one of my favorite things I get to do when they visit is play some golf with Pops. I enjoy that time together with the old man. Of course I LOVE the short red head that he brings along with him ;-). I couldn't leave her out.

Since I'm trying to catch everyone up on what's been going on I guess I can't leave out the bad news. About three or four weeks ago my mother-in-law got a kitty for their new house. It was a beautiful little white kitty with big blue eyes, and they named her Nahla.....notice I said "it was". Gray absolutely LOVED the kitty. Everytime we went over to their house she just had to play with Nahla, but she just called her kitty! Poor thing ran everytime she saw Gray coming bc she knew she was about to get squeezed to death and drooled all over. Well, this is where the bad news comes in; a couple of days ago I went over to pick up Gray from my inlaw's house, all was well until we started to leave......as we were walking out the door we saw kitty run out from the garage and I didn't think anything else about it....until I heard a pop when I backed out! After I heard the pop I knew exactly what it was.....kitty was no more! I proceeded to back out to see kitty flopping around on the driveway spraying blood everywhere with each hop. I felt horrible, but was relieved that Gray wasn't paying attention. In about five seconds poor little kitty was gone. I quickly called inside and told my mother in law what had happened, she sent out Judson with a black trash bag and I buried the remains. I will say that kitty could have been renamed after the accident.....her new name could have been Hammerhead.

That's about all that's been going on in my life. Maybe now I will keep you more updated.