My Family of Women

So, today I'm writing to you from Walmart. Yep the happiest place on earth. Its full of loving honest people that care about you. This particular Walmart is in Renton, Washington and they are always smiling....ok I'm done. Its to hard to keep a straight face talking about the Walmart in Renton. If your from this area you know what I mean. Although today it isn't bad. I'm at walmart to get a oil change and its gonna take awhile so I figured I would try to knock out this post now. So I got to thinking about my day. I dropped off the cable box back to its maker and ya know I don't miss it too much. Except for getting my sports its not bad at all. I went to my mom's to pick her up and take her to the airport. We had a good conversation about how the world is teaching kids that "I'm in control", "I can do anything" and "as long as I don't hurt anyone who cares". Its sad really to think that humans believe its all about us. We do...

 So, this is what I learned yesterday.  Don't stop, don't quit even if you get hit by a car :).  Sometimes we make up excuses to not do something even if we know it is good for us but it is hard to do.  That is what I was fighting with yesterday.  I didn't want to workout at all.  I just wanted to stay at home in the snow with the kids.  I knew it was good for me and that I needed it but I still didn't want to go.  So, when I finally decided to go I got hit by a car.  Now this would be real easy for me to just head home and say the usual, you know, God must want me to go home or its snowing to hard to go workout  but I knew I needed to go.  So I went and it was well worth it.  I did the best I had done so far working out and I felt great.  Sometimes its just part of the journey that you have to go through.  Don't let doubt keep you from what God has in store for you.  I still have a long ways to go and I pray I c...

Today, Monday the 15th.  I have started on my journey to lose weight.  I need to lose 110 pounds to get to my weight of 220.  Yes people, I am 330 lbs. of man-flesh.  The workout I had today was good.  I was already sore from the day before when we ministered in dance at Matt Talbot.  Which was a awesome service!!  So it made it easier going in to the workout because I was sore already.  Once I was warmed up my body felt a lot better.  It felt good to feel good about my body.  Its been a long time since I felt good about what I can do.  How did I get to this state?  Busyness.  I was very active in my teens and early twenties.  I was also in good shape.  I was always playing some type of pick-up game or going some where fun.  But when parenthood hit it slowly went away because of the responsibility to raise children.  That is where I messed up.  I didn't take care of myself because I was more concer...

Sometimes I feel like I can't do anything right.  Or if I am doing  something I love to do it somehow is wrong.  Have you ever felt  that way?  Have you felt like nobody will be happy until you do only  what they want and not what you need.  Sometimes I feel suffocated  with the "suppose to's" in life.  For me when I feel that way I have  to leave for a few hours to find my perspective or talk to someone who  is truly going through hard times or a mentor who loves me.  I should run to the God but  sometimes I just don't.  Its wiser to run to God but if you haven't  figured out by now I'm not always wise.  God does start talking to me  and getting me to talk to Him so I can throwup all my complaining on  Him.  I do think that being in a family full of women you start to  think how you see things is wrong because of men tend to see things  differently than women.  I'm sure if...

I'm just kind of writing.  I'm not sure where this is going to go.  Thursday the 4th was my dad's celebration service.  It was magnificent.  Everyone was happy.  Some, may have expected some boring no life funeral and was pleasantly surprised that we just worshiped the Lord.  There had to be between 2 to 3 hundred people in the church.  All ready to say good things about my dad and his influence on them.  But what really brought these people to see him?  Christ.  You see because of Christ in my dad he was a light to people.  A breath of fresh air.  People wanted to see him because he brought Jesus with him.  Some were friends of my mom and they raved about how he treated her and how he help her be better.  Some were co-workers that wanted to show support.  Some were friends that he loved and spoke about Jesus to.  And of course there was family who was bless to know him as uncle, grandfather, son, ...

"Teenagers, you give them a inch and they'll swim all over you".  Wise  words from a crab.  This is exactly what you have to do as a parent.   You have to know when to give a inch and when to hoard that inch.   Because when you give that inch they will run as far as they can with  it.  I have 4 teenage girls and 2 little girls which seems to scare most parent and soon  to be parents from having kids.  So I'll give them a "inch" when it comes to good things because I want them to run with it.  But, I do try to be a earth bender (Avatar Cartoon reference) and be immovable when it comes to things that are not good for them even if it is a popular thing to do.  If I  teach my girls the right things to do like, live in the presence of the  Lord.  Respect your authorities.  Love on people.  Then, I have a great shot of my girls being awesome women. So far  they are.  Even with the different mis...