Only 19 more days until I’ll be a married man! I really can hardly believe it. And the thing that seems even more amazing is that I’m going to be marrying an unbelievable and amazing woman like Vanessa. I only wish that it was easier for everyone that I know from back in MN to have the time to get to know her as I do.

I still wonder at times what there can really be about me that has put the desire in Vanessa to want to be my wife. It really seems like she could do a lot better than me. The thing that I truly believe however, is that this wasn’t something that Vanessa and I did. I can only see that God has had a bigger plan for bringing us together than we could have ever seen. I know that both of us can look back on our pasts and wonder how it is that it took those things to bring us together now. Why couldn’t we have found each other years ago? I think God’s plans and timing are always better than anything we can come up with. Yesterday evening, after watching a wonderful movie “Facing the Giants”, I broke down in tears of joy as I looked back on how God took the last 10 years of my life to prepare me for the life I’m about to begin with Vanessa. And I was amazed at how God answered my desire in His perfect timing. There isn’t a day that passes that I don’t thank God for bringing Vanessa and I together. How great, how true, and faithful He is. We serve an amazing God!

Life has been a little out of the ordinary lately. I ran sound again this week for Splash, it was a little crazy once again. Things should settle down eventually once everyone gets in tune with everything that needs to happen. Hopefully the next couple months will start to show some normalcy.

I’ve been kind of struggling with the whole podcast thing lately. I’m finding it hard to have the excitement to get things going. I think in part with so many other things going on the podcast seems like just one more thing to tackle. Perhaps there was a time for that podcast and now it’s over. To begin with my hope for the podcast was to included others besides myself. I’ve always gotten some very good feedback from those that have listened to my podcast. We’ll have to see what God has in store next for my podcast.

Well, I know that this was a very short update. I’m still working on trying to get back into some regular updates. I’d like to get myself back to posting a little of my thoughts each day. I think I’ve perhaps been a little more apprehensive because of perhaps the fear of saying something that would get misinterpreted by people around here that don’t know me very well. It’s kind of strange to feel that way. I used to feel so free with my thoughts. I wish that I could have that freedom again.

I’ll need to be going for now. Until the next post.

BTW, I think I might have finally found a base template that I like. I’m still feeling the need for some heavy customization though. I’m missing some of the little features I had before. Although, I do have to say that things are a bit less cluttered and out-of-hand. We’ll have to see what features I actually bring back.

We have been able to spend so much time together over the past few days, it has been simply amazing. It’ll be strange to be getting back to the normal work schedule days, saying good bye to summer as it slowly begins to fade away. With each season though brings new experiences, and I’m looking forward to them all.

I have to say that over the past 9 months God has grown me in ways I would never have seen coming. Really, it’s even more amazing to look back over the last 15 years and to see how God has used so many things to bring to where I am today. This journey called life is such a strange one, with twists and turns we never see coming. I’m so thankful for a God to trust in each day to guide my steps and lead me to the next stage of the journey.

Well, I’m going to sign off for now. Ta ta, and God bless to all!

The phone wasn’t all I had hoped. We basically get a free phone up to $250, but at retail prices. I was really hoping to get my hands on a new Treo 700p, but I was only going to be able to get that by forking over an additional whopper of $400 out of my pocket. With the new move I just going justify spending that kind of money. In the end I have a decent phone, but I’m not able to do all the bluetooth syncing stuff I would have liked to do. I was able to easily send the contacts I felt I needed over to the phone from my Mac Address Book, which was nice.

I spent most of Saturday and Sunday with Vanessa. On Saturday morning she had to take her car in for some checkup stuff before it was taken out to NY. We went to the mall and did some shopping. I actually came out pretty good with my shopping. I saved almost $150 off the retail price wiht what I bought. Great sales for sure. We went to a great pizza place for lunch and I had my first calzone, boy was that excellent eatin!

Sunday I helped Vanessa get some stuff done at church, she works there by-the-way. I ran and got us Subway for lunch, we got back to her place about 4:30. We just spent some time together. She was heading out on a missions trip on Monday morning and she won’t be back until like the 23rd. She made an amazing supper for me that night. It was meatballs and rice, along with fruit and salad. I’d have to say is definitely one of my favorites. That night I got in on a server upgrade at work, around 10pm, but I didn’t get home until like 6:30am the next morning. Let’s just say that things didn’t go as planned. I didn’t end up going into work until a bit after noon on Monday.

Monday night I went over to Vanessa’s parent for supper and to power-wash my patio bench. I’m going to be staining/water sealing it and needed to get it cleaned up. I had a wonderful time visiting with Vanessa’s parents. I always have so much fun and feel so at ease with her family. I did manage to get a little bit more sleep that night than the previous.

Well, and that brings me to today. Another day of work and getting more projects added to my list. I do have to say that I was a bit happy because of something that was mentioned at a meeting we had. One of my co-workers complimented me rather nicely to my boss. It was so nice to hear that I’m relaly seen as an asset to the team.

So I didn’t go into a lot of detail, it has been awhile and I just don’t have the time to go into the kind of detail I normally would ifI was just recapping a day. I hope all those that might be stumbling by, to check up on me, are doing excellent as well. I’ll do my best to get back into a few more posts each week. It seems kind of crazy to go from multiple daily posts to only once every couple of weeks. I do however post my morning devotional thought almost every morning over on my Faith Shaping website. Alrighty, cio!

I have to say that this week, or at least since I’ve gotten moved here, has been amazing. I’ve loved to see how God has continued to bring everything into place, and how He has blessed Vanessa and I with the time we’ve had to share together. Tonight was really in a way our first date for a long time. I simply cannot wait to be able to plan more date nights. I had so much fun and excitement planning things for tonight. I can only say that I still feel so amazingly blessed by God for everything He has given me, especially Vanessa. I simply can’t wait for all that know me to have the chance to meet her and get to know her. She has such a huge love and excitement for serving God, I love that about her. I’m sort of bumbed that I won’t be able to go on the Missions trip with her in a couple of weeks. I would have enjoyed so much to be able to serve along side her. I truly hope that God brings other opportunities for us to server together in the future.

So today brought many good things. I finally have hot water, the gas company got things turned on this morning. I can now take a hot shower at my place. I had a couple of cold ones and since I’ve been heading over to Vanessa’s to get a hot shower. I now have internet, yeah! The biggest news for me today is that I finally, and officially, have a job starting on Monday. I’m excited and nervous at the same time. I guess there is a part of me that worries that I’m not going to be up to the job. I know that I generally underestimate myself, but I guess I feel it’s better then thinking I can do more than I really can. I think that the other thing that makes me nervous is that I’ll finally be put out in the “real world”, or at least the secular one. I’ll be needing to rely on God more than ever to give me what I need each day to stand strong for Him. I’m not feeling that I’m so easily going to be swept up by the world I work in, my concern is how I will express my faith in my daily work environment.

Well, the hour has ticked away. I need to be getting up early tomorrow as I’m helping Vanessa with a car wash to raise support for her missions trip. This will be my first car wash, wish me luck! I’ll post more as I get a chance. I also hope to start up my podcast now that I have internet. I want to thank everyone so much for all your prayers and support. God has been so good to me!