purplenickel.com was just recently launched and i hope you have an opportunity to check it out.

Casia and Eric are an amazing team of artists, and i am proud to say that Julie and i “know” them. Casia was a freind of Julie’s in high school, we all went to prom together one year, she was in our wedding, and took our wedding pictures, and I got to play guitar in their wedding. Purple Nickel Studio is a dream come true… and we were all cheering for this moment when it became reality. Casia has always had this dream and vision, and this week it came true… i am just so happy for her. This kinda thing doesn’t happen everyday, when someone you “grew up” with sets out with this kind of lofty goal, and accomplishes it so quickly and precisely. I also love the art - it’s so refreshing, and i hope her influence grows. I am excited, and a blog post is my way of celebrating!

Natalie sat down with a crayon and notebook today and drew this picture without any help or advice. It’s her first drawing that actually looks like something, and it is obviously a face. Just wanted to share - it was a pretty cool moment for me.

Play Planet Green Game

This blog is probably much too personal to be posted, but I feel that it’s okay. I came home from working with the child care group at the church and decided to journal, pray my usual and it ended up being more my thoughts. It’s kind of neat that God listens to your heart anyway even when you are off schedule.

Sometimes when I am gone I feel discouragement but soon encouraged by how much I miss my family and want to be home with them only to arrive home and feel the discouragements i just felt Maybe my emotions are unstable maybe i have too much worry maybe today was really bad day instead of a good day, maybe there’s really too much going on. Maybe I don’t trust You enough. THe idea of something bad happening to someone so good replays over and over in my mind. Theres much fear that I have. My hope peace and trust all come from You but can’t I live a life free of worry. It’s a much deeper worry. It’s something that that I can not control. I like to , need to be in control. I can’t no matter how hard I try can I control, cancer, disease, pain, hurt, or sickness. So then if I am not in control of those things how do I give them up to God when they cause me so much worry, sorrow, sadness. I know that I can not live my life everyday thinking that the worst will happen or think of the ‘what ifs’. How do I let the uncontrollable things go. How do I let God be in control of these type of things.

verses, suggestions.

as I write this blog a thought comes to mind maybe. Maybe I feel like God let me down or has become untrustable. Even saying that I feel like such a sinner, that I a Christian can say that I may not trust God.

The example that most comes to mind most is when Jesse’s aunt margie died of cancer recently. Such a good Godly person and such a sad situation. I don’t know just thoughts.

Probably too personal we will see if I keep this up. I write things post them and then the next day delete them so we will see.