Help Comes In Many Different Forms

I don’t pray as much as I should. My spiritual time is often the alone time I have between campuses, driving in the car with ‘good music’ blaring out the sunroof, or walking quietly up the road to get MonsterGyrl from daycare. (Lord knows that it’s only quiet on the way there! LOL.) Anyway, I [...]

Selections From The Book - pt4

pg 174 – “David Smith points out in The Friendless American Male: ‘One serious problem is the friendless condition of the average American male. Men find it hard to accept that they need the fellowship of other men.’ “
I was raised out in the country. There were never more than two other boys to play [...]

Selections From The Book - pt3

pg 145 – “The real you is on the side of God against the false self. … We are told to shoot the traitor. How? Choose against him every time you see him raise his ugly head. Walk right into those situations that you normally run from. Speak right to the issues you normally remain [...]

Selections From The Book - pt2

pg 152 – “Has is ever crossed your mind that not every thought that crosses your mind comes from you?”
Being raised in the church, I am very aware of the devil in the Bible. But I’ve always seen it as just the opposite of the good things that happened, a fable, a sandwich-board enemy [...]

Selections From The Book - pt1

pg 71- “In the case of silent, passive, or absent fathers, the question goes unanswered. “Do I have what it takes? Am I a man, Daddy?” Their silent answer: “I don’t know … I doubt it… you’ll have to find out for yourself… probably not.” “
I see now how I may have been affecting [...]

Books I’ve Read Recently

So I’m not much of a book reader. Since I was a young kid, reading has always put me to sleep. As a teacher, reading aloud to kids in the afternoon usually ellicited my yawns. But I do love to read. The last book I read was my semi-annual Harry Potter blast, [...]

Lunch Break Thoughts

I was reading from a new book today. “Getting the Love You Want” was suggested to me as a great relationship-building book. The author has been hailed by many people, most importantly by Oprah! Apparently, the book works on communicating with your spouse and looking at why you got married in the first [...]

Finding My Heart

So this is a search for my heart. It’s not my idea, it came from a book. “Wild at Heart”, by John Eldredge came to me at a very important time. My brother-in-law suggested this sometime back and once my marriage starting falling, suggested it again, but more passionately this time. It has had [...]

Dirt On My Ass, But I’m In Getting Back On

Okay, so it starts. This is me. I’ve been knocked off my horse and I’m working my way back into the saddle. Simply, my wife thinks she wants to separate from me. Where I know there has been substantial unhappiness, I in no way saw this coming. Not only was I knocked off, but [...]

Who Is The Author?

It is going to be very interesting, this blogging adventure. I of course don’t have time to write during the day because I want to be around the kids. In the back of my mind, that statement sounds more like, ‘around my kids while I still can.’ I had twenty things I wanted to write [...]