It's finally Friday, and it's payday so double whammy for me! I'm excited this week about it being Friday as I will hop on the bus this afternoon and take off for Trenton for the Pedro football game, then turn around and come home just to get up at 6:00 and take off for Gainesville and my racing weekend! Tara and I are all packed and raring to go! A weekend of racing, relaxing and being away from everything excites me just typing about it.
Last night our freshman squad beat Middleburg 36-0, and could have beaten them much worse but they stopped trying to score at the start of the 4th quarter. Our JV did not fare so well as they were trailing 22-7 at the start of the 4th when I left. I was in on the team feeding and Bible study for the Jv, and got to pray with the freshman team before the game. The freshman team was impressive with several kick returns for touchdowns, and the only time the offense really got stopped was on miscues, rarely did they even get slowed down from gaining atleast 3-4 yards.
Some personal highlights for our Freedom athletes included Brad Collyer getting several tackles and fumble recovery at Nose Guard for teh Falcon freshman team.Also, last night was a big night for the Jacket freshman team as they defeated Fleming Island 28-0. Phillip Worthington had 4 catches, one of which was for a touchdown and Kyle Cubbedge and Josh Klingerman got to play the majority of the game as well.
So our young athletes are making us proud and quickly becoming leaders on their squads on and off the field.
I did have a neat opportunity in my Betty Griffin House position yesterday morning as I drove up to Mandarin for a men's small group at Mandarin Presbyterian Church. They are looking to get involved in our efforts to stop domestic and sexual violence in St. Johns County. THis group is actively praying for me in my endeavors as well as allowing me to train them to go out into the community in the north part of our county and speak on our behalf. But, yesterday I did some training for them and the neat thing about it was I was able to open and close the training with prayer. You have no idea what a difference it makes in me as a speaker to be able to pray during my presentations. I usually have to pray out in the truck and then walk in and get bombarded by worldliness, but yesterday was different and cool!
So, I will give you and update on my racing endeavors(win or lose I'm gonna love it) on Monday and we wish you all a great weekend!
Go Falcons, Go Gators, Go Redskins!
Friday, September 19, 2008
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Another day, another dollar
Another great day of Betty Griffin House work. I have been a little stressed I must admit as I have been struggling to get teh presentations that we need. I've been praying about it and just Wednesday morning I felt a peace as I prayed about it. THen it happened, inside of about 15 minutes I got a phone call asking me to come to a church boys mentoring group on a monthly basis to do presentations. An email asking me to speak to a large group at Flagler College about dating violence, and an email from the guidance counsellor at Southwoods wanting me to meet with him to set up presentations for next week with their students.I went to tell Allison about all of that and a lady that we had both contacted called her to have us come and do about 18 presentations at her school at Pacetti Bay middle school. How amazing was that, I didn't know for sure what that peace meant, I have been on 2-3 campuses every day asking, begging and pleading. Then, finally I officially turn it over to God and He again provides more than I could ask or even imagine.
Youth group went great, we set up our card room and we had one group playing Skipbo at the card table, one group playing video games in teh game room, and another group hanging out playing indoor soccer(only one broken light, not bad) and a few just sitting on teh couch talking about their day. WE talked about new wine in old wineskins and the kids seemed to respond well to teh message.
Over all a wonderful hump day, for both my jobs spiritual and secular. I couldn't ask for much more.
Thursday will be a different story as I will be leaving at 6:30am for Mandarin for a presentation for a mens group we are putting together, then a presentation at the boys and girls club, one at crookshank and then off to Pedro to feed and do the bible studies for the freshman and junior varsity teams. I will then attend those games and get up to do it all over again on Friday. Yay Thursday, Friday then an exciting fun-filled 2 day race weekend! I'm ready!
have a great day and thanks for reading.
(Yes I typed it late WEdnesday night to avoid running late on Thursday morning!)
Youth group went great, we set up our card room and we had one group playing Skipbo at the card table, one group playing video games in teh game room, and another group hanging out playing indoor soccer(only one broken light, not bad) and a few just sitting on teh couch talking about their day. WE talked about new wine in old wineskins and the kids seemed to respond well to teh message.
Over all a wonderful hump day, for both my jobs spiritual and secular. I couldn't ask for much more.
Thursday will be a different story as I will be leaving at 6:30am for Mandarin for a presentation for a mens group we are putting together, then a presentation at the boys and girls club, one at crookshank and then off to Pedro to feed and do the bible studies for the freshman and junior varsity teams. I will then attend those games and get up to do it all over again on Friday. Yay Thursday, Friday then an exciting fun-filled 2 day race weekend! I'm ready!
have a great day and thanks for reading.
(Yes I typed it late WEdnesday night to avoid running late on Thursday morning!)
Mow, mow mow your day!
I spent all day yesterday mowing and weed eating at the campground in hopes to save up enough money to go racing this weekend. I am excited to have a weekend of racing and family with nothing else going on all weekend! I will go to the Pedro football game and then get up Saturday and Sunday morning as a racer! I'm so excited, I just hope it stays dry. The bad thing about taking a weekend off to race is the chance of rain ruining the whole weekend, then the race will be rescheduled and I will be out of luck for sure!
Other than mowing yesterday, I went to football practice for a while and then home to eat dinner with the girls and we watched house. Not sure if I waited so long to see a new episode of House or if it really wasn't that good. But, Fringe the show after that is interesting to say the least.
I had posted this early this morning but it didn't work for some reason, the other blog worked and this one didn't, go figure.
So pray for dry skies for me and my family this weekend as we have an opportunity to get away from it all and enjoy ourselves for once!
have a great day(what's left of it)
Other than mowing yesterday, I went to football practice for a while and then home to eat dinner with the girls and we watched house. Not sure if I waited so long to see a new episode of House or if it really wasn't that good. But, Fringe the show after that is interesting to say the least.
I had posted this early this morning but it didn't work for some reason, the other blog worked and this one didn't, go figure.
So pray for dry skies for me and my family this weekend as we have an opportunity to get away from it all and enjoy ourselves for once!
have a great day(what's left of it)
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
Read your own blog
So here I am blogging, I just got through with my quiet time and I'm thinking of how to express some of what I have read between my book I am reading and my quiet time, and my time in the Word this morning. I'm writing about the importance of praying in private so that you can experience true oneness with God. As I was doing so I was bombarded by my little ones needing help with their shoes, getting their lunch packed and so on.
You see, today I am taking a sick day from Betty Griffin House to try and make some extra money for the weekend. I am going to be mowing grass and weed eating all day to get myself some racing money for this weekend. I have planned this upcoming weekend of racing for about 3 months now. I got a friend to come and preach for me this Sunday, I got all my bases covered so that we can take off for a weekend and do some racing. And, here we are 4 days away from my big weekend and I don't have the money to go. So, I'll be sweating it out all day to try and get us there.
I'm blogging from home instead of the privacy of my office because it made no sense to go all the way to the office for about 45 minutes when I can accomplish all that I need right here in the kitchen.
Yesterday was not so hectic as last week, I got into the office got my blogs done and got a lot of stuff done that I needed to prepare for my presentations later this week. I went by the church and did some praying, checked the mail and phone messages and mixed up some Gatorade for the football team and made a lot of phone calls. There's still a lot of pressure to get about 60 presentations done by November 1st. I knocked out 12 on Thursday and Friday of last week, Allison knocked out about 5 last week so we are slowly getting there. Mowing doesn't sound all that relaxing but it is. It's strenuous yes, but still I am able to turn my mind off, shut out the pressures of work and just mow all day long. It's a lot more theraputic than it sounds, so much so I think I spelled it wrong, Oh well!
Today, after mowing I'll go home and work out and then run out to football practice. The girls have become honorary water girls it would seem and they love taking the guys water and hanging out with them at practice. Tara is working at Publix 2 nights a week so the girls are forced to go to footbal practice with me those 2 nights and luckily they have found jobs and they love it.
Yesterday was a bit of a highlight for me I guess you would say. Last week the freshman team had a rough week and the coach asked me to come and talk to them for a few minutes, I shared a parable with them and told them the importance of giving it your all no matter what that all may be, and then I prayed with them. Then, I rushed over and did the same with the varsity and hung out with them while they got cups of Gatorade.
So, busy but not too busy, almost slow by my standards these next few days, but Wednesday through Friday are right round the corner and those are my 15 hour days.
Have a great day and thanks so much for reading! Sorry it wasn't all that entertaining, just busy, busy busy!
I can share one funny little anticdote with you. Last night I decided to fry some of the perch that Tara had bought and frozen last weekend. I took the pieces and thawed them out, pulled them apart and they appeared to have white plastic still on them. I couldn't get it off so I decided it must be some of the skin. Well, I stuck them in the fryer and they started to develop these huge bubbles, that's right the plastic on the fish was bubbling which meant after all that work I got about 2 pieces of fish and had to cook something else, this whole cooking for myself is a new experience every day!
You see, today I am taking a sick day from Betty Griffin House to try and make some extra money for the weekend. I am going to be mowing grass and weed eating all day to get myself some racing money for this weekend. I have planned this upcoming weekend of racing for about 3 months now. I got a friend to come and preach for me this Sunday, I got all my bases covered so that we can take off for a weekend and do some racing. And, here we are 4 days away from my big weekend and I don't have the money to go. So, I'll be sweating it out all day to try and get us there.
I'm blogging from home instead of the privacy of my office because it made no sense to go all the way to the office for about 45 minutes when I can accomplish all that I need right here in the kitchen.
Yesterday was not so hectic as last week, I got into the office got my blogs done and got a lot of stuff done that I needed to prepare for my presentations later this week. I went by the church and did some praying, checked the mail and phone messages and mixed up some Gatorade for the football team and made a lot of phone calls. There's still a lot of pressure to get about 60 presentations done by November 1st. I knocked out 12 on Thursday and Friday of last week, Allison knocked out about 5 last week so we are slowly getting there. Mowing doesn't sound all that relaxing but it is. It's strenuous yes, but still I am able to turn my mind off, shut out the pressures of work and just mow all day long. It's a lot more theraputic than it sounds, so much so I think I spelled it wrong, Oh well!
Today, after mowing I'll go home and work out and then run out to football practice. The girls have become honorary water girls it would seem and they love taking the guys water and hanging out with them at practice. Tara is working at Publix 2 nights a week so the girls are forced to go to footbal practice with me those 2 nights and luckily they have found jobs and they love it.
Yesterday was a bit of a highlight for me I guess you would say. Last week the freshman team had a rough week and the coach asked me to come and talk to them for a few minutes, I shared a parable with them and told them the importance of giving it your all no matter what that all may be, and then I prayed with them. Then, I rushed over and did the same with the varsity and hung out with them while they got cups of Gatorade.
So, busy but not too busy, almost slow by my standards these next few days, but Wednesday through Friday are right round the corner and those are my 15 hour days.
Have a great day and thanks so much for reading! Sorry it wasn't all that entertaining, just busy, busy busy!
I can share one funny little anticdote with you. Last night I decided to fry some of the perch that Tara had bought and frozen last weekend. I took the pieces and thawed them out, pulled them apart and they appeared to have white plastic still on them. I couldn't get it off so I decided it must be some of the skin. Well, I stuck them in the fryer and they started to develop these huge bubbles, that's right the plastic on the fish was bubbling which meant after all that work I got about 2 pieces of fish and had to cook something else, this whole cooking for myself is a new experience every day!
Monday, September 15, 2008
A new lesson
I learn new lessons all the time. With the church at Freedom I have learned the hard way not to pray for or ask God for patience because I am gaining patience(or losing it) in every aspect of the ministry. I now have learned not to complain or especially blog about how exhausting your week has been when you have a weekend ahead of you. I shared with you on Friday how exhausting the week had been, well the weekend was far and above all that had been during the week.
Friday started off well, we had a great day going I did presentations for 6 classes on campus at Pedro Menendez, I got to go to their pep-rally before school and hang out with some of the players. I was able to be there after school to set up everything and get ready for the team feeding. We got through that and rushed home, changed clothes and we were all off to Jacksonville for the game. We played at Stanton Prep and had a great game going. The offense and defense were both sloppy but we were ahead 20-3 until they scored right before the half making it 20-10. The second half started slow for us and we allowed them to get the game 27-13, they decided to kick and on-side kick. One of our players, Mike Winners went for the slow roller and was hit by a Stanton player right on top of the helmet at full speed. He laid there for a while and Ms. Kim our trainer(the best high school trainer I have ever seen in my life) rushed out to him. As they worked on him I made my way out and we ended up strapping him to a back board, putting him in the ambulance and going to Shands for tests. Most of this was precautions and he turned out to be alright, just some major soreness. They finally got the tests run and I got out of the hospital at about 1am.
Saturday, I got up did some studying on my sermon and made the final spell check, and proofread (which I usually do on Thursday evening, it's been one of those weeks) then I got ready to go racing. You know that racing is my getaway, my time to put the week behind me. It was then that I realized that Tara had taken the keys to the Suburban to work with her and I had no keys. I had to borrow my mom's car and rush out to get the keys, come home and then finally start getting loaded up for the races about 2 hours later than I usually like to.
We got all loaded up, I got all of the girls' stuff packed and the 3 of us went to the gas station to fill up the suburban for the trip(3.99/gallon mind you). We got there and I filled the burb up, got the girls icees and we were going to pull over to the air and air up my slicks which were almost flat from sitting for over a month. When I pulled over there I realized my tire gauge did not work and now I ahd to turn the rig around and go all the way to Napa to get a tire gauge, then come back and start airing the tires up. I did that, rushed around frantically and then finally got to the outlet mall to get Tara from work at about 3:45 (we usually leave at 3:00). We drove quickly to the track only to find out it had rained and there would be about a 1 hour delay on getting started. They got the track dried, and the second car down the track blew the engine sending fluids all over the track from the beginning of the track all the way to the end. After a lengthy clean up they got back underway. I got to race, I lost second round(I was quite rusty) and needed to make a timetrial just to run the full quarter mile. All the races with the motor in the car now were 1/8 mile and I didn't want to go all the way back to Gainesville next weekend only to have to turn around. So I made that pass and everything went alright, we loaded up at about 1am and headed home. Got home, finally got all unwound and went to sleep about 3 am and got up at 7:30 to face my Sunday.
So just when I thought was tired, I found out what tired really was.
Thanks for reading and have a great day!
Friday started off well, we had a great day going I did presentations for 6 classes on campus at Pedro Menendez, I got to go to their pep-rally before school and hang out with some of the players. I was able to be there after school to set up everything and get ready for the team feeding. We got through that and rushed home, changed clothes and we were all off to Jacksonville for the game. We played at Stanton Prep and had a great game going. The offense and defense were both sloppy but we were ahead 20-3 until they scored right before the half making it 20-10. The second half started slow for us and we allowed them to get the game 27-13, they decided to kick and on-side kick. One of our players, Mike Winners went for the slow roller and was hit by a Stanton player right on top of the helmet at full speed. He laid there for a while and Ms. Kim our trainer(the best high school trainer I have ever seen in my life) rushed out to him. As they worked on him I made my way out and we ended up strapping him to a back board, putting him in the ambulance and going to Shands for tests. Most of this was precautions and he turned out to be alright, just some major soreness. They finally got the tests run and I got out of the hospital at about 1am.
Saturday, I got up did some studying on my sermon and made the final spell check, and proofread (which I usually do on Thursday evening, it's been one of those weeks) then I got ready to go racing. You know that racing is my getaway, my time to put the week behind me. It was then that I realized that Tara had taken the keys to the Suburban to work with her and I had no keys. I had to borrow my mom's car and rush out to get the keys, come home and then finally start getting loaded up for the races about 2 hours later than I usually like to.
We got all loaded up, I got all of the girls' stuff packed and the 3 of us went to the gas station to fill up the suburban for the trip(3.99/gallon mind you). We got there and I filled the burb up, got the girls icees and we were going to pull over to the air and air up my slicks which were almost flat from sitting for over a month. When I pulled over there I realized my tire gauge did not work and now I ahd to turn the rig around and go all the way to Napa to get a tire gauge, then come back and start airing the tires up. I did that, rushed around frantically and then finally got to the outlet mall to get Tara from work at about 3:45 (we usually leave at 3:00). We drove quickly to the track only to find out it had rained and there would be about a 1 hour delay on getting started. They got the track dried, and the second car down the track blew the engine sending fluids all over the track from the beginning of the track all the way to the end. After a lengthy clean up they got back underway. I got to race, I lost second round(I was quite rusty) and needed to make a timetrial just to run the full quarter mile. All the races with the motor in the car now were 1/8 mile and I didn't want to go all the way back to Gainesville next weekend only to have to turn around. So I made that pass and everything went alright, we loaded up at about 1am and headed home. Got home, finally got all unwound and went to sleep about 3 am and got up at 7:30 to face my Sunday.
So just when I thought was tired, I found out what tired really was.
Thanks for reading and have a great day!
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