Almost a year later...

Wow... can't believe it's been almost a year since I posted. Obviously a lot of things have changed since then... We finished the church and moved in. Kingdom Automation Technologies (my company) automated the building which you can see at http://www.kingdomautomation.com/. If you go to the pictures section you can see some of the stuff we did including some shots of the halls and sanctuary.

Then this past August, I received a job offer from a company called Tacle Seating USA. After several phone interviews and a visit, I was offered the job and took it. Now I am living in Murfreesboro Tennessee while my family is still at home trying to sell our house. I really hope that happens soon as I miss being with them and seeing them everyday. It's very hard being away from your family and everyone you know for so long.

Things are going good down here with the new job. It was a little rough at first - new jobs always are - but things are starting to smooth out now and I'm really begining to like it.

Well It's getting late so I'm going to go to bed. G'night blog world!

Building project

This is the second post tonight...

As I told you in the previous post, we've been building a new church building. The siding was kind of my project, and I'll tell you, the guys really stepped up and we did a wonderful job on it! Here are some shots of the building in various stages. We have probably 99% of the siding done now, but I broke my little finger on my left hand last saturday so I don't know how much more I'll be helping for a little while.


Just in case you wondered... hitting your little pinky with a hammer with enough force to drive the siding nail underneath it all the way into the wood, does in fact shatter the bone inside... believe me... Anyway, here are some pics. These were a little earlier this summer.. i'll update with more recent ones soon!

Me on the ladder hanging siding

The long side of the building

Me wondering how I'm going to get on that roof...

Hmmm.... maybe a ladder...

The back of the building... Those scaffolding sections are 4 foot each... that's 16 feet in the air and then climb up on the roof for the top part!!!!

This whole project has been great. The guys have really bonded and we've all really enjoyed the "guy time" together. It's funny how you can work beside a guy a couple of times and really get to know him, but if you were to just see him in church every week, you barely get past the hello's. Anyway, pray that we get this wrapped up before the New Year!!! It's really been fun!

Back in the saddle again...

Well, it's been forever since I last posted... life just has been too busy. Between work, family, and building the new church building, i've been way too tired to do much else!!!

Anyway, I'm posting two posts tonight. The first is a song that has been playing on my radio a lot lately. It's really meeting me where I'm at right now. I hope you enjoy... And Nathen... I love you too man! And I miss you guys!


Family - Todd Agnew
Who's my brother in Nashville, Tennessee?
Who's my sister in a village in Malawi?
Who's my lover in Washington, D.C.?
Who's my neighbor? Who's my loved one?
Who's my friend?

We are all family
We are all family
If we're all under one Father, that makes us all brothers
We are all family

Who's my brother in a different kind of church?
Who's my sister struggling with her worth?
Who's my mother, gave me all but birth?
Who's my neighbor? Who's my loved one?
Who's my friend?

You don't have to look like me
For us to be brotherly
You don't have to be like me
For us to be family

You don't have to think like me
For us to speak intimately
You don't have to agree with me
For us to be family

You don't have to live near me
For us to be neighborly
You don't have to dress like me
For us to be family

You don't have to speak like me
For us to love each other you see
You don't have to be like me
For us to be family

If we're all under one Father, that makes us all brothers

AMEN!

Unchanging One

Some of you have told me that the video below from Todd called unchanging one wasn't working. Sorry, I fixed it now! Enjoy.. He truely is the unchanging one... God bless..

My Next Car

Just wanted to share with all of you! This is to be released in '09. Shagga...we need to fit this in my budget!!!!!!!!!! Justme...I can't wait to see you in the passenger seat!

Here is a link to Autoblog that talks about their testdrive and has another bunch of 50+ pictures! Be sure to check out the inside/dash/engine. Do those seats look comfortable or what?!?!?

http://www.autoblog.com/2007/05/15/autoblog-drives-the-camaro-convertible-concept/

St Louis

I know...I know... it has been forever since I posted, but that's just where I've been at...

Anyway, I'm in St Louis this week on business. Things are going great here and God has really blessed me with getting a lot of stuff done that was long over due! Finally the St Louis plant is happy with my department again!!!

It has been about 85 degrees here and beautiful until yesterday afternoon. All of the sudden a huge storm rolled in! Now I'm not just talking about a little rain or anything, I'm talking about rain so hard that you can't see the car in front of you - Lightning so often that it was literally non-stop - Thunder so loud that is was shaking my car as I drove down the road. All I could think was, "Now I know how Noah felt!". The drive that normally would have taken 15 minutes took me 45, we never got any faster than 10mph!!!! The wildest thing was that the rain was coming down so hard that the drains on the highway couldn't keep up. I'm not exaggerating, it was several inches deep on the road!!! At multiple times trucks heading the other direction on the other side of the median were throwing water over the dividing wall and all the way across all three of our lanes!!!!!!! Which of course added to all the rain that was coming down. I've never seen so much water falling from the sky!

One place they were building a new overpass and they had a huge crane sitting beside the road. This thing was probably 5 or 6 stories high, and there were no trees around it. I saw lightning strike that thing twice while I was floating along the highway!! Don't tell me lightning doesn't strike the same place twice!!!

Anyway, I'm really having a great time with God while I'm down here. I've started reading a great new book called "Today Matters: 12 Daily Practices to Guarantee Tomorrow's Success" by John Maxwell. If you have never read any of his books, please do. They are great and he is a God-gifted writer and speaker. This book is 310 pages long and I read the first 120 or so while I waited for my plane and during the flight! The idea of the book is that Today is the only thing you can control so you shouldn't worry about yesterday or tomorrow. His best quote at the beginning of the book is "Yesterday ended at midnight". This is great if you really think about it because if you come to the realization that yesterday is done - you can't change it - you can't fix what you did wrong or do anything any better than you already did it, then life is much easier!!!! Dealing with tomorrow is the same way... it's not here yet... you can plan for it, but you have no control over what it is going to bring or be like. You can try to set yourself up for it to be a certain way, but you can't control how it will end up. God is the only one who can do these things and if we rest in the fact that He is in control of the yesterdays, todays and tomorrows, then we can just enjoy what he has given us - Life, and life more abundantly!!!

Unchanging one...

Here is another video from Todd Agnew. This is really where I am right now with God. But it does raise some questions for me. God is definately Unchanging, and He loves us no matter what we say or do. But if we look back through His word, we see examples of where he dealt some severe punishment on His people when they were disobedient to what he asked them to do. How does that apply to us today? How can we keep from getting into that place where we think, "I can do whatever I want because God is merciful and forgiving and therefore, I can just walk how I want and basically get away with it". I think that so many people look at God this way, and I want to know how to reach those types of people to know the God that I serve - to fear Him in the reverent way that I do - but yet know Him as the loving Father that I know Him to be. When we come to his throne, God doesn't see you and me approaching, but sees His son coming to him.

This question has really been burning in me lately. Please let me know what you think about this. I value the comments I get on here, and please leave them! Also, don't feel funny about leaving one about this subject based on what others have said. I think all of our opinions are valuable and even if they don't line up with what someone else has commented, that's OK.

Here's the video: