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Well, there’s has been no find in the Zen Micro search. So I’m not sure what that means right now. Might try to get something new pretty soon, or may just wait it out. But it’s a bummer. But it’s just some little piece of electronics, right?

Earlier this week Ella went back for her second round of shots. Immunizations. Yes, you do the math. She is 14 months old and went back for her 2nd round of shots. She was/is way behind. So she got like five or six shots on Tuesday. I think one in both arms. One in one leg and two in the other leg. She was all band-aided up! But no real fussiness from it all, thankfully. But she may still have a couple more to get completely caught up.

Well, yes, Lost is the name of my current television show. I’m waiting on tomorrow night’s episode. Seems the more the show reveals about it’s characters and mystery plots, the more there is to know and more questions raised.

But today LOST refers to my Zen Micro at the HealthPlex this morning. There is a chance it was found by a kind and honest soul and turned in to someone official somewhere. Yes, there is that chance. But it’s about as good as Mississippi State’s basketball team making the NCAA Tourney this spring!

Five Gigabytes of music and sermons and podcasts. I was going to go to sleep tonight listening to either LOST Podcast (oh, the irony!) or some strategic church management. Instead I’m looking at old recruiting info. I hope for good news tomorrow.

Well, time got away from me and flew by. Here’s what’s happened since last time we talked:

• Addison started school. She loves it. She was a bit nervous at first, but she jumped right in with out any hitch at all. She says she’s learning a lot. But I think the best thing for her right now is that she’s in a classroom environment with a room full of kids and a good teacher. Especially the social aspect of school. I think she was beginning to see teenagers as her peers.
• Ella is learning sign language. We dabbled in it with Addie. But never concentrated on it. But decided to give it a serious go with Ella. She’s figuring it out. Some signs she does frequently. But still needing to address them all to a particular item/action. She signed “night night” a bit ago. But didn’t seem to happy about it when I laid her down for a nap. But she went to sleep pretty quickly, so maybe she really was tired. Hopefully this will explode on here in a bit and will help her verbal commuication as well. She only knows a few words. “Mama”, “Dah” for Dad (though she usually calls me Mama too), “Mo” for more, and “bok bok” for any of the dogs.
• UMiss beat MSU last week in basketball. Broke the 8 game streak. We’re a little down and very young this year. I think the future’s bright. Though we did kick off 2 good talents this past week. But as talented as they might have been, they weren’t good teammates. I think we improve as the season moves along. But I’m hoping for a NIT run. That’s sad, isn’t it?
• Bev has the flu. She came down with it Tuesday night. She’s been pretty low, but is on the upswing now. But her throat is still pretty raw. We had to go back for more medicine. But the great thing is that the girls and I have not gotten sick so far. Hopefully it stays that way.
• My office got painted…but that’s not big news.
• And I’ve upgraded to 2.0! How you like them apples. Probably nothing anyone can detect.

Tomorrow is the first day of school for Addison. She’s anxious about it. So much that she couldn’t get to sleep. Actually got up a few times upset because we were going to be before her. But she met her teacher today and saw her classroom and where she’ll hang her jacket and all. I think she’s more than ready for it. I almost wish we’d sent her to school in August, but I think being in the social setting of preschool will be great for her.

I think she gets along quite well with most kids. I’m just a little curious to see if she’ll try to be bossy or overly demanding of other kids. She tends to think she’s in charge sometimes. Especially since she spent some time at her grandmothers while we were in Nashville for Passion. She thought she ruled the roost. That’s been a little of a reawakening since she’s been back home.

But I’ll get up for prayer breakfast, then meet Bev at the church w/ her. I’ll take her to school while Bev goes on into work. It should be fine. We’ll see.

Still in awe of God’s movement in Nashville. But now I know he wants me to do more than just be in awe. But to move in awe. To act in awe. And to seek to be a person who brings forth the Kingdom of God in my daily living. To live a life of excellence to God’s glory.

This morning in the prayer I did for the early service, I used the word “excellence” once. I came back to the chairs and Davis said, “Excellence, huh? You sound like you’ve been to a conference.” It was kind of funny. But I don’t want it to just be a sound. I want it to be my life. I want it to be my lifestyle. I want to be jazzed up on a God high all the time. I know that’s most likely not to happen. But to be in intimate communication w/ him always.

While John Piper was in Nashville speaking to thousands of college students about God’s supremency….a letter from him was delievered to his church in MN that he has cancer. So pray for John Piper and his health. Here’s a link to the entire letter.

Well I have been on the road or away from town for more days than not the last 2 to 3 weeks. But thankfully I’ve had a great time and am still not so tired after it’s all been said and done. But there’s a desire to take a deep breath and hope to be able to take it easy now. But reality is that the old routine is waiting. Or maybe the revised routine of 2006 is here. So there’s not going to be a ton of kickback time.

But Passion 06 was fantastic. We carried a great group of people with us and met up with the folks from Amory. We all had rooms in the hotel right across the street from the Gaylord Entertainment Arena. So we could walk most everywhere we went. But God opened some eyes through amazing praise and worship times. And God spoke through Louie Giglio and John Piper and Beth Moore. David Crowder Band, Chris Tomlin, Charlie Hall, and Matt Redman led us in songs of worship. And we prayed together many times.

I bought the binder of all the general sessions and four of the breakout meetings. Prebought it so I wouldn’t have to wait for the 1.7 hours it would have stolen from my life if I’d stood in line that long.

But I want to look back to Passion 06 and see it as an awakening of sorts in my life. Where a realization went off to God’s calling me to something bigger than myself. Because I think that’s what I tend to focus on…myself. But the overall gist or theme of things I walked away from Passion with was that I’m not here for me or my wants/desires, but that God has saved me and called me for HIS purposes. And that I should take advantage of my life here on earth to live a life that honors him and attempts to usher in His Kingdom in my circle of influence. That my satisfaction comes only from Him and that should be my entire purpose in life. And that I should be ready to suffer for His glory as well.

Not always easy pills to swallow, but truth none the less.

After being back in town 2 short days I’m off again to Nashville.

BreakThru was really, really good. Now I’m looking forward to Passion. But I can’t get the stupid laptop to connect to the internet. Not sure the problem. Won’t work at home or at the office when plugged into the same network cable that works for other computers.

So an update will have to wait until I get home unless there’s access there for some reason.

Pray for us all as we go to Passion.

Happy New Year!

Well, Christmas is over. It came in fast, then got laid back.

After the blitz of the North Mississippi Family Tour, we came back to a quiet home and not much planned. We hit my dads, my moms, my grandmom’s, Bev’s parents, and a few stores/malls inbetween. We got more than we needed, a lot of what we could use, and things that I’m looking at thinking regift. But it was good to see people and let them see us too. Also good to read the familar news papers and see the old newscasts we’d been so used too.

We left late Friday night and drove through the night. Of course we had to take a drive through the Mississippi State campus. It was dark and empty. And the construction put us at a few dead ends. But it was good stuff.

Christmas Eve was church services and Domino’s Pizza. We have no family traditions so I think take out pizza on Christmas Eve will be our new one. That and breakfast for lunch on Christmas Day. We had pizza 2 years ago when Addie was really sick one Christmas Eve.

Christmas Day was church again. Yes, I went to one of those churches that actually met on Christmas Day. I think most churches did. But the few that didn’t got the headlines. It was fine by me either way. Working at a church made the idea sort of appealing.

But after some down time, tomorrow starts another blitz. BreakThru lasts until Saturday. Sunday we drop off the eldest child with the grandmothers, then Monday head to Nashville for Passion. Should all be quite fun, but busy none the less. Actually plan to try to blog from Passion. We’ll see how the hotel rooms shake out…

Yep, yesterday was the last day of classes for the high schools. That means freetime for all the kids and whatnot. Good times, huh?

Last year Christmas was a time that felt pretty disconnected from tradition. I was living out of a suitcase in Clinton, and Bev and the girls were living either in Amory or with me out of their own suitcases. Ella was barely a month old and I’d just started a new job. So the return to Amory was pretty nontraditional. We made it to the Christmas Eve service at my old church. So of course I had to weather the “How is it going so far” comments when I really didn’t want to go through that again and again and again. But it’s to be expected.

After the service we went to my grandmother’s for the traditional chaos and lasagna dinner. The gluttony of presents and wrapping paper ended as I went to my house. A brief night of sleep ended w/ the realization of having to drive the family circuit further north on Christmas day before heading back to Clinton to live out of a suitcase again for a couple of days. Then it was on to BreakThru and more suitcase living until we secured a rental house.

All that to say that the Christmas feeling I used to remember just never seems there with the same punch these days. I guess that’s part of growing up. But I wonder where I lost it. Or did I have the wrong ‘punch’ anyhow?