I’m Dreaming

    Yep that's right. I have a dream, not so grand as Martin Luther King Jr.'s, for this dream is only for my family. In another week, my beautiful wife and I will be taking it easy. Sure we will still be driving most of the day, but we will be driving through the Appalachians and the Carolinas to arrive at our destination: Tybee Island, GA. We made plans for this trip a year ago and have been eagerly anticipating the trip, but the time is near. Our time will be spent at a little Bed and Breakfast, on the beach, an old lighthouse and a few other touristy things, not to mention a few eateries we plan on taking in as we romance each other for a few days, without the distraction of our four little ones.

    This trip is in honor of our tenth anniversary, which occurred on May 8. That day was spent by me working on a final, BreAnna taking the two youngest out to play, capped off with our small group coming over for our regular meeting. We are going to pick our oldest two up from school on Tuesday and drive to my parents'. They will take control of the four of them for our little excursion and we will begin our long, almost 14 hr drive, to our destination. We won't have the money for a hotel that night, so we will stay in our van and try to get some rest in there for a few hours. Whenever we wake, we will drive some more and should arrive at our destination between 3 and 5 pm depending on how much sleep we get and how fast we are she is driving. We will hopefully make it in time to be on a sunset cruise out on the ocean. We will spend 2 nights at the B&B and then head back around noon the next day, stopping off somewhere near Nashville, TN to spend a night in a hotel. Then it's off to pick up the kiddos, stay a few days with my parents, celebrate the birthdays of my brothers-in-law, and rest up a little from the driving, before we BreAnna drives us back home.

    I can't wait to spend a romantic time with my gal on the beach.

    One more week!!

Done. . .For Now

It's that wonderful feeling at the end of a semester, when all your assignments are turned in and the final has been taken. The sudden bliss of having a weight lifted off your shoulders . . . SO NOW WHAT???

The thing that has been driving you day to day is done and you look to the horizon and you see nothing. At least if I was working, I would have something else to look forward to, but being unemployed and not being able land a job that would feed my family, I seem stuck. Though my current situation is not even close, I feel as though I'm Israel, wandering the desert, eating the same thing every day, and sometimes longing to be back where I was. The strange thing is that whatever comes next, I am excited about it and so I wait with great expectation. Unfortunately, this is of little to no comfort for my wife, encourages laziness in myself, and it doesn't help me to lead my family somewhere. Fortunately, it is time to reflect and major on the basics, get life in order, get my family in order, and lead them towards God.

More to come later . . .