So glad it’s Friday. I was hoping to take Angie out tonight, so we could just sit quietly and talk some. And some more. But things didn’t work out with Melody’s BFF, so I think we’ll all go eat and maybe window shop some.
I think we are ready for Wow Week.

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Wait, you never get ready for Wow Week. I have several thoughts, but it would take up lots of time and space. So I will just say that I am glad we have a team together that can handle it – we think.
Spent most of the day talking with Bill about philosophy concerning work and church, corporate mindset and grace mindset and where I fit into all that, and how he and I fit together. Again, it would take up a lot more time and space than I have here. Maybe I’ll create another document and type a little at a time. It was a great conversation, but it wears you out after a while! Then we had to deal with a personnel issue, and that FOR SURE wears me out in just a few minutes. So, I’m glad to be home and not have to think about all that for a few days.
I’ll just say this: I am by nature a “feeling” type of guy. Can’t help it. Don’t necessarily like that about myself, but I’m learning more about myself and how to deal with who I am. So, I think about this season of life and here’s what I find:
• Not excited about where I am professionally and ministerially, and frustrated because I don’t see how I can get to the place of doing what I would love to do. My greatest fear is that I am going to waste away and not be effective in the Kingdom, but will have spent my whole life looking to do what I really loved and felt called to do. It’s a black cloud that hangs over me constantly.
• My mom living with us, and seeing her go down mentally and physically is REALLY a black cloud, because I feel total responsibility for doing something for her, but I don’t know what.
• The house is falling apart in many areas.
• The finances aren’t allowing me to get to the point where I can do something about the house, or the kids’ college, or our retirement.
• I’ve been seeing double vision for about 4 months now.
• Angie spent 3 days in the hospital last week and who knows how this bulging disk and nerve problem is going to play out.
• I love my kids, but they are at a tough age when they need me in their lives so much, to help keep them on the straight and narrow. And in some cases, find the straight and narrow.
So I ask you, in looking at all this, shouldn’t I be feeling a little “weight of the world”???

Today’s Top 50 Person: Ame McIntire Berry – love this girl, and I’m so proud of her for making great choices, and so happy for her that she is getting to live a great life!

Today’s Christian Song: More Power To Ya by Petra. This was the first song on the first Christian album I had ever heard. It is sort of foundational for me. I always considered Petra the solid foundation that I would always trust to put out great rock and roll with solid Biblical lyrics. And Bob is such a great song writer. This is certainly one of his signature songs, on this is their early signature album, along with Beat the System and Beyond Belief.

Today’s Quote: “If you haven’t got time to do it correctly right now, when are you going to find time to do it again?”

Today’s Thanks: Hearing. I’m thankful that I can hear, not only what is necessary to live normally but to hear things that make life beautiful. My favorite music. Birds singing. Laughter. My family and closest friends sharing their life and love with me. It would have been a boring life to not be able to hear. Thank you Father, for knowing my every need.

Today’s Verse: “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,” declares the LORD. “As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.” Isaiah 55:8,9.