Chasing Daylight

What man is a man that does not make the world better?
-Kingdom of Heaven

I really heard this while sitting in church. Someone was reading scripture out loud to the congregation and miss pronounced a word. He said sexual imortality instead of imorality. Coming from a married man...I would not mind sexual imortality.

Namaste

Well I just found out that the design that I had worked so hard on was not allowing people to post comments. I have no idea why, and I am not down with code so I just had to start over with something new. If anyone has any tips on how to make this design cooler...please feel free to offer any advice. Until then here is Chasing Daylight's design.

Sunday was our first day at the new church. We went to all three services and had to be introduced in each of them. That meant that we had to walk up and stand in front of everyone. The day went great and we were greeted and welcomed by so many people, and everyone was just so nice. The tuff thing was to just stand there and be introduced while all these people that you don't know yet stare at you. There are so many things that go through your mind. How is my hair? Is my zipper up? Who do I look at? Should I smile? I guess what I am trying to say is that it is tuff to stand there when people are just staring at you.
Stacy and I are very excited about starting at Trinity. We really felt welcomed and are ready to start in. There are alot of great people and there are a ton of young couples for us to get to know. That is something that we did not have at our previous church. Life in Maryland is good, although I don't know if I will ever get used to the humidity.

Shalom

Stacy and I are going and seeing Rob Bell this evening in Arlington VA @ the DraftHouse. I am really looking forward to this. I also want my wife to get a chance to see him talk live. I have seen him at Youth Specialties, but she has not had the honor. I will share my thoughts when we get back. Stay Tuned.

Well it is official now...I am now a legal Maryland driver. My wife and I waited in line jumped through all the hoops and took the dreaded picture. And now we are Maryland drivers.

This is what I left behind when I left Oklahoma. This tornado hit a town named El Reno a couple months before we left. This is the same town where my wife works.

Peace Out Tornados!

I cannot get enough of this album. It has a great sound...Sufjan is a genious.

Steven Colbert with Conan

"All truth is God's truth...so as a Christian, I am free to claim the good, the true, the holy, wherever and whenever I find. I live with the understanding that truth is bigger than any religion and the world is God's and everything in it."

Velvet Elvis pg. 80

I wonder what things would look like if we as humans acted and lived with this understanding. Of course CNN, Fox News and many other news shows would have nothing to talk about. It seems like more and more all they ever do is find ways to make one side look bad. The left and the right. Why can't we just look for the best, that is why I live in the middle. The left is wrong and the right is wrong...long live the green party(joke). This idea also applies to everything else in life as well.

Seriously...how is the person supposed to know that you are waiting until marriage. Oh yeah...when he is close enough to read the message. Great thinking on this one. Christian marketing at it's best.

I am 27 years old and I have never physically seen the black and white cookie before. I have known of it's existence but never witnessed it's glory. Jerry was right...we could learn a lot from this cookie.

I hate packing...and I hate moving. I don't mind going to someplace new, I just don't like the act of moving. Of packing everything up, carrying everything out, and then having to carry everything back in, and then having to unpack everything all over again.

The one thing that I really dislike is having to move everything in a moving van. We rented a 26 foot diesel truck and packed it to the brim with all of our junk. Then we hooked a trailer onto it and put my wife's car on it. If you have ever driven a big truck than you will know, but if you haven't then just let me tell you that nothing is simple when you are driving around. You cannot just pull in and get gas. You have to find a station large enough. You just can't find a hotel, you have to find one that is made for trucks or one that is really empty. Then once you are on the road you can't go as fast or move as easy as all the other cars. When we where going through the mountains in West Virginia and were going up a steep incline the truck was going 35 miles an hour. What would have taken us 22 hours in normal vehicles took us closer to 30 hours with that big old truck. I will admit though, that when I dropped it off and was cleaning it out for the last time it was kind of sad.

It is just very nice to be done with all of the driving and unpacking, and to be pretty much moved in and settled. It is also nice to be 20 minutes from the ocean.

While I was on my way to work this morning I passed by a brand new 2006 black BMW with one of those pizza delivery car toppers on it. First of all who is ordering a pizza at 9:00 in the morning, and second of all how much is this guy getting paid?

About 2 months ago Stacy and I decided to do something that is very out of the ordinary for us, but it is something that we feel God was calling us to do. We chose to leave Oklahoma...and everyone we know to move to Maryland where we don't know a single person. All because we feel that God has called us to this church, and it's youth ministry.

So we have been planning, packing, more packing, changing or transfering stuff, even more packing...all to live on the East Coast. I must admit that I was very excited about this change of scenery. I was ready for something new, and to be honest my wife who has lived in Oklahoma her entire life was even excited as well. I will say that planning for this move is completely different than actually doing the move. Before we left I was shocked at how easy
everything was moving, and at how I really didn't feel any different.

I know that I am going to miss the simplicity of Oklahoma City, I am going to miss my friends, and my youth at Wesley who I have spent the last two years with. But to be honest...things were really easy in Oklahoma. Now don't get me wrong I love easy, I am probably the laziest guys on the planet, but I don't think that I was trying hard enough or needing to for everyday life. Sometimes real growth and real experience can only come from a willingness to risk everything, to sacrifice all that is easy, for something that could be better. That is why Stacy and I have taken this risk. That is why I am writing from Maryland right now in an apartment, instead of a house in Oklahoma.

Zac

this is really funny

Well...it has been awhile. I tried out some other blogs, and I have moved cross country to Maryland, and I have decided to go back to the original blog. Nothing like the old faithful blogger.