Well it's almost 2009 and it has been a while since I posted. Can't sleep tonight (thinking about the future) so I am up listening to a sermon on "Everlasting Father". This sermon had an impact on some people that had father issues growing up. I also went back and viewed our cardboard testimonies done this past fall. So as I sit here wide awake mind spinning along I shall blog once again, and hope that I can do this more consistently in 2009.
Since you last heard from me, we went on our whitewater trip on the Ocoee River with 12 of us, we had a great time and are looking forward to doing it again in '09, hopefully the upper Ocoee.
In October, 9 men participated in a weekend retreat called Band of Brothers Weekend, it was a great experience as usual. Most importantly the men connected with God and with each other. One man said, "this was the closest I have ever felt to God". We also had great fun and some great fear with rappelling off of Mt. Yona.
In November we had some fun with paintball, fathers and sons spending time together shooting each other with paint, what a better way to get close and get even all at the same time.
In September I started driving a school bus to help provide a little bit of income and some really good health insurance in order to provide for my family and continue what God has called me to do, ministering to others.
As we close out 2009 I reflect on how much I have had to learn to trust God this year, how He has taken us through some great challenges, and how He has helped me grow closer to Him. I am reminded of so many stories in the bible about how God provided, most of the time right in the nick of time. That is what he has done for us so many times this year. My desire remains unchanged and that is to Glorify God with my life and to live out His purpose for my life. I desire to continue to grow into what God wants me to be as a man and take other men on this journey.
I pray that you too would take this journey and become closer to God and more like Christ in 2009.
I don't know what the future holds, but I know who holds the future.
God Bless and Happy New Year
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