Relationships – Page 3 – No Small Talk

Now on facebook

Hello everyone,

I am now on facebook.com, so much better than MySpace, I never enjoyed being subjected to random pictures of human anatomy. I’m not abandoning this thing at all, in fact, I’m just enhancing this blogs presence by joining facebook. It is here, and here alone where I will write my thoughts, share our stories about Poland and missions, and continue to encourage others.

Our online presence is growing, we’re now on blogger, MySpace, Facebook, and You Tube… Our you tube profile doesn’t have much in it yet, but soon it will have our wedding video, a tour of our place here in Gresham, and when we return, tid bits from our upcoming trip.

So stand by….

One year and a lifetime more to come!

Alexis and I celebrated our 1 year anniversary this past weekend (yesterday was the actual day), it was great! We went to Seaside and Cannon Beach both in Oregon and loved it, the weather was pretty good, although a little overcast (while Portland was baking, today it’s reaching 100!). I’ll post pictures as soon as I think about it, I didn’t even think of using my phone to post pictures and videos, we were just having that much fun 😛

Thanks for all your prayers and support, see you later!

PS. We leave for France/Poland on the 26th, just a couple of weeks! We’ve fund raised $8,000 of the $9,000 we need, the rest is coming out of our own pockets, hopefully a few more donations come in so our time in Poland is free of money stress. Thanks again!

It’s about me.

I’ve been trying to figure out what this blog is really about. What direction I want to take it. Well, I’ve decided to take it the same direction as when I started. It’s about me. It’s about me and my walk with Jesus. It’s about me and my relationships. It’s about me. Why me? Because when I focus on the inner thoughts, my outer expressions are closer to Godly expressions. When I take the time to think, process, ponder on my stuff, I find that I can give more to others. It’s about loving others AS I LOVE MYSELF… I’ve been bad at this, and I need to start paying attention. So… I’m going to write a lot about myself, in fact those are the blogs I find the most interesting… the open, sickly honest ones about people’s inner thoughts. That’s what this life is about… learning from each other’s interactions with others, themselves, and most of all with their Creator.

Pure Desire

I don’t have the words to describe how amazing the men’s group that I go to on Saturday mornings is. It isn’t just a “guy’s talking about their problems” group, it’s a truly loving group, completely sincere in purely desiring God. Because of this group I have tools that have made me so much more aware of why I do the things I don’t want to do and why I don’t do what I do want to do. I have so much more of a life because of what God has done for me, using these men, using relationships that a mere 5 years ago I would have thought to be impossible. While I still struggle in doing things I do not want to do, I at least know that my desire to be pure and set apart is where God wants me to be. I’m beginning to get a slight glimpse of where God wants to direct me, in the mean time before Poland.

Prophetic words

I finally have typed up the prophetic words I have received over the past year. I have retro posted them to go where they should in my archives so that over time I can look and see what else God was doing, where he took me, and where he is taking me.

October of 2004 My first experience with healthy prophecy during my 1^styear intern retreat. Basically God was calling me into the desert.

January of 2005 My second experience, Alexis and I were broken up, a time of hell in the desert.

September of 2005 The third experience, amazing, God shows His face through the whole thing and previous prophecy is shown to have come to past. Alexis and I received this one together. The promise land is nearing, but there is still work to be done.