Still no images...

Well, still no images back on this site. Sorry about that. I didn't keep a back-up of those. Kind of a rookie mistake, I know.

Anyway, Christmas went off without a hitch. We had a very nice time with our family and friends. We were able to stretch this one out over a week or so. It was very nice.

Seems that God is not done working in me these days. He is teaching me to value people and relationships as He values them. Not that I don't or haven't valued my relationships, but the realization is hitting me these days that He doesn't bring people into my life for no reason. He brings people into my life to help shape me and mold me, for me to do the same for them, and to bring glory to His mighty name, and the name of His Son Jesus.

I would like to ask for prayer for my wife. She is about 7 months pregnant, and is experiencing some pre-term labor issues. This is not the first time this has happened. Our oldest was born 6 weeks early, and had to spend her first 10 days in intensive care. Our next child was born 3 weeks early. So, we are praying that this one will go as close to full term as possible.

God bless you all as we head into this new year! I really do believe that God is going to do some great things... new things in this coming year!

:)

Seasons

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!

Maybe this blog is a seasonal thing. I guess I don't know. Am I just exceptionally busy these days, or do I just forget to update. ?

At any rate, I am still here, and life is still moving along. Christmas is just a few days away, and I am looking forward to some time off work. Life has been pretty busy these last few weeks. I think I will take a day just to relax and take a breather and take stock of what my plans need to be for the new year.

It is bitterly cold out today, -13 F/ -25 C, and is supposed to stay that way for the next few days. At least Christmas day is supposed to warm up a little. Hopefully it will be warm enough to take the kids out sledding! :)

I have to mention the You Are The Temple site is starting to grow! I had an entry about it a little while back here. If you would like to visit and join, feel free!

I just wanted to also take a moment to thank you guys for sticking with me. I know there hasn't been a lot of updates lately, and that is one thing that I will make an effort to do. Everytime I make an entry I realize that I should do this more often.

More to come! :)

I can't sleep.

Well, here it is 11:23 PM locally, and I can't sleep.

So, I turn to my blog which hasn't been updated for the last couple of weeks.

There is so much to update, and I know that so much has happened since then, but I still can't quite think of anything noteworthy to write.

The deer hunting ended a couple of weeks ago with no success. The deer will live to see another day. Well, actually, I shouldn't say no success. Our hunting party of 9 got 6 deer all together, and I did get to take home some venison. So, I am happy about that. I just didn't get a chance to shoot one myself. I still had a GREAT time though.

Church has been going great! We had a miracle happen in the last couple of weeks. As we were completing our new building, some of the costs did run over the original estimates. The long story short is that we were over budget by about $15,000 at the end of the project. Much prayer and faith was poured into this need, and 2 weeks ago we received a check for $15,000. Pretty amazing!

God has also been moving in other great ways in our fellowship. We are growing all the time.

Personally, God has been moving in my heart to change me as well. I just seem to take longer to learn some things though. I find myself doing some things that God had just told me not to do the day before. Then the Holy Spirit will remind me in that still small voice, and I feel so much like Peter felt when that rooster crowed.

Yet I am constantly reminded that God's grace is so big and so amazing. He urges me to get up and try again.

So, tomorrow will be another day... actually, this very minute is different from the last... I think I will start right now! :)

God Bless you!

Mike