Coming back

After a long time away, this blog might be making a comeback...

Christmas is right around the corner and it is exciting to just think that my little daughter is nearing her first Christmas. It is amazing to see how the time flies.

It has been a while since I last wrote on this blog. Does anyone still visit this old place other than myself? Please leave me a note and tell me about Your journey. Thanks!

Man...
It has been a long time since I last was on this website. So much has happened since then. The opportunity to run a marathon (and I actually finished!) was a huge challenge that I was able to run with my friend Casey. And I actually got married to Jolene Bohn on July 29, 2006. It was wonderful and I continue to be amazed at what an incredible wife I have.
In the last 6 months I stopped working at Starbucks after 4 years of service. My new job is doing sales for dental plans. It is amazing how helpful this service is. There is such satisfaction at helping people who are in pain or who just need some care. You should check out my webpage at: www.1-dental.com and let me know what you think.
In the future I will try to update my blog more often. Keep me posted.


Jeff

Craziness... 2 posts in 10 minutes... For those people who I have known over the years who one day were as bored as I sometimes get and found themselves hitting the "next blog" button on the upper right corner of the screen until you say, "Hey, I know him!"...and for those people who check this blog periodically who I will probably never meet here we go.
If you read the last post there were those words "my girlfriend". Yes... God is kind to me. Her name is Jolene and no she does not have red hair like the one in the Dolly Parton song. She has been a gift of God to my life for the last.... wow... almost 4 months... so I haven't bloged in a while! She is a continual encouragement to me as someone who really loves Jesus and lives a daily life with Him. Tonight I am sitting in Nashville researching my thesis before returning home to Fort Worth (never did I think I would call Texas home). Everyone, don't worry I will put a picture up soon so you can see her eyes...wow.

Been a while hasn't it? Recently I have learned that I am a Kinetic learner (not sure of that spelling so don't shoot me psychology majors) which has become my newest excuse for everything. For instance this week while driving from Texas to Tennessee and all over the planet around Nashville, my excuse to my girlfriend who gives me directions while I am focused on something say... Driving...I do not pay attention to the details. Yes, sometimes the details are turn here or there but still... my wonderful excuse has become "Hey, I'm a Kinetic learner."
First, over 95% of you are wondering "What is a Kinetic learner?" The other 5 % of you either know or don't care. For 100% of you I will explain. Basically people learn 3 different ways. Either people are visual learners, auditory learner or kinetic learners (I am totally gonna spell check this post!!). I know this is crazy but visual learners learn by sight (didn't see that one coming, huh?) and auditory learners learn by... yes sight as well. If you are not sure how auditory learners receive information I have a friend with a tack hammer who can smack you. A kinetic learner would probably have to be hit by the tack hammer to learn. (Are we getting the picture here?) Kinetic learners learn by doing something or in my case doing the wrong thing several times before figuring out that I should have paid more visual attention or listened better in the first case. If you never knew this then consider yourself enlightened. If you didn't care... you still now know.

Does life ever slow down? I guess when you die. Responsibility can be a very difficult thing. Do I actually want to be responsible for anything at all? Life is so much easier without responsibility. Then again I expect others to be responsible when they tell me that they will meet me in a certain place to hang out. Man, I am really bad at setting a double standard here, huh? Responsibility can be a very good thing when it is spent upon being responsible for something worthwhile.
For instance, a friend and I worked on a project for months this semester spending hours pounding out words on this keyboard in an attempt to finish it. Now the semester is over and the grade has been in... It would be so easy to just dump the project in its raw unfinished form and be done. Is that responsible? No, but I am tempted nonetheless! Man, I am so glad that God is more perseverant than myself. Glad he didn't begin to create the earth and then was distracted to something else and leave it unfinished. Actually in the Bible, God promises that when He works in the heart of a person He won't give up until it is finished. (Paul, a follower of Jesus wrote in the Bible-Philippians Chapter 1, verse 6) Glad God and I aren't made from the same stuff! Man...is He a patient God.

"If you are a preacher of mercy, do not preach an imaginary but the true mercy. If the mercy is true, you must therefore bear the true, not an imaginary sin. God does not save those who are only imaginary sinners. Be a sinner, and let your sins be strong, but let your trust in Christ be stronger, and rejoice in Christ who is the victor over sin, death, and the world. We will commit sins while we are here, for this life is not a place where justice resides. We, however, says Peter (2. Peter 3:13) are looking forward to a new heaven and a new earth where justice will reign. It suffices that through God's glory we have recognized the Lamb who takes away the sin of the world. No sin can separate us from Him, even if we were to kill or commit adultery thousands of times each day. Do you think such an exalted Lamb paid merely a small price with a meager sacrifice for our sins? Pray hard for you are quite a sinner."


-Martin Luther, On the day of the Feast of St. Peter the Apostle, 1521

"Everything you deal with from tests, papers, frustrations, joys, relationships, work... everything happens in the background of a daily walk with God."