The Spring Time Green of New Life...

Spring has sprung
New life begun
Take this wintered heart and set a flame

A new life you bring
A new song to sing
Make a love like yours my only aim

And though it might rain
And there is sure to be pain
I know that you will be faithful all the same

Your death brought me grace
So that I will see you face
And never again be overtaken by my shame

Shaking Off The Dust...

Hello everyone! It has been quite a while since I have written anything on here, but I thought that I should change that. The last post that I did was what was going on in my life after six short months of living in Dubuque, IA. Well now it has been a year and five months and a lot has changed in my life. My roommate is still awesome and I love him like a brother. He bought a house back in May and we moved in at the beginning of June. Hot showers are good. The funny thing about the house that he bought, is that it is right across the street from the house that Matthew and his wife bought. I like living right next to my best friend... his wife hates it. I have gone through several jobs since May but I am excited to get back to landscaping at the beginning of next month. I still go to the GAC and I love every minute that I spend with my church family. I was asked to join the leadership team there a couple months ago and it has been the best thing for me. I enjoy serving along side fellow men who love Jesus and want to serve him wholeheartedly. I also was asked to join the teaching team and have given several sermons. It would not have been my first choice but now that I have experienced teaching God's word I truly enjoy it. If you are interested in hearing one of my sermons you can go to and you will find them there. Also I gave the Christmas message for my church and you can see that on YouTube, search for faithfulpc. Enough about all that. I just want to say that I am thankful for all the work that God has done in my life over the past year. I would be lost without Him and everything that I do, I want the glory to be given to Him. So that is what has been going on in my life. Stay tuned for my poems and thoughts.

That's What's Up...

So I have been living in Dubuque, IA for the past six months. I have a great roommate who is very laid back about everything, which is great for me. I have been working at WS Live, which is a call center, since November 16th. I was working on the Intuit program as a customer service rep for their ProAdvisor Program. That was a good job, I enjoyed it and was getting fairly good at it. Just recently I went down to Arizona to visit my Grandma and parents who were also visiting her. I had a lot of fun. But the day before I left I was told that WS Live was not going to let me go but instead they were transferring me to a different program. So the day after I got back from AZ I started training for the LifeLock Program. I now do pretty much the same job that I did before I just work for LifeLock now. So far so good. I just finished my first week of my new schedule and I not a huge fan of it but I think that I will get used to it soon enough. Tomorrow my roommate is going to look at a house. It will be nice to move out of our current place. I'm not saying that I don't like it, I'm just saying that it would be nice to take a hot shower. Also My best friend Matthew Johnson just bought a new house and I have been spending most of my free time helping him fix it up. And on a completely separate note I hate shoddy craftsmanship. I have had a lot of fun hanging out with Matthew, helping him get his house ready and smoking our pipes. In church related news, I have been going to the Great Adventure Church the whole time I have been living here. I love the GAC, we are a family and it is awesome. So not that anyone is going to read this but that is what has been happening in my life lately.

It's Been A While...

I know that I haven't posted anything on this blog for a while. I do have some new poems that I need to get on here but I have been devoting most of my free time to starting a new blog with some of my friends from my church. My new creation, the Brain Child of myself and Matthew Johnson is Maniacalfaith. Maniacalfaith is an open discussion about our faith and other topics that we fell like discussing. If you would like to check it out and join the discussion we would love to hear your thoughts. But stay tuned to this blog as well because there will be more to come!

Goals for 2010...

Ah yes the new year has arrived. Looking back on 2009, it was a horrible year filled with stress, illness, pain and suffering. I truly believe that 2010 is going to be different. If I can get the motivation and the proper discipline to do these things, here is a list of things that I would like to accomplish in 2010.

1. I am currently at the highest weight that I have ever been 336. I would like to lose 80 lbs. Putting me at a weight of 256.

2. I would like to get to a point of not only financial responsibility but stability as well.

3. I would like to grow the relationship that I have with Christ everyday.

4. I would like to grow the important relationships in my life and cut off the draining relationships... and know the difference between the two.

5. I would like to all around just overhaul myself into the person that God intends for me to be, not only for myself but for my future spouse as well.

I think that those top 5 goals encompass the change that I would like to see in my life. What I ask from you my dear reader is that you would encourage me and keep me accountable to these goals that I have set for myself. That you would take no excuse that I would try to feed you. That you would rebuke me for my own benefit. And that you would pray diligently for me as I struggle to accomplish these goals.

Blessed Be...

Blessed Be Your Name
In the land that is plentiful
Where Your streams of abundance flow
Blessed be Your name

Blessed Be Your name
When I'm found in the desert place
Though I walk through the wilderness
Blessed Be Your name

Every blessing You pour out
I'll turn back to praise
When the darkness closes in, Lord
Still I will say

Blessed be the name of the Lord
Blessed be Your name
Blessed be the name of the Lord
Blessed be Your glorious name

Blessed be Your name
When the sun's shining down on me
When the world's 'all as it should be'
Blessed be Your name

Blessed be Your name
On the road marked with suffering
Though there's pain in the offering
Blessed be Your name

Every blessing You pour out
I'll turn back to praise
When the darkness closes in, Lord
Still I will say

Blessed be the name of the Lord
Blessed be Your name
Blessed be the name of the Lord
Blessed be Your glorious name

Blessed be the name of the Lord
Blessed be Your name
Blessed be the name of the Lord
Blessed be Your glorious name

You give and take away
You give and take away
My heart will choose to say
Lord, blessed be Your name

As we were singing this in church today (Thank you Leah and Anna) the words were made new to me. I have sung this song countless times before and never was impacted the way I was today. After a long time in the desert and a long trip on the road marked with suffering I realized that I, for the most part, am a fair weather Christian. When my life is good I can praise everyday and truly mean it, but as soon as life got hard and everything was taken away from me I lost my ability to praise him. And it struck me today as we were singing this song (and I don't want this to sound bad or be taken the wrong way because I truly do praise him for this) that he left me in that desert and on that road for so long because of my inability to praise him during that time. I have no doubt in my mind that if I had turned the blessings that he did given me during that time back into praise he would have rescued me sooner. He wanted me to learn that even when I am at my lowest, when I feel that I have nothing and that I am all alone, He still pours out many blessings that I choose to ignore or am to selfish to realize. And as I stood there singing that song I realized that He is truly worthy of praise in the good times and the bad because he never stops blessing us. And the very least we could do is praise him for that. So to rap things up I just want to say that in this time between suffering and plenty, I will praise the name of the LORD. I will turn the blessings that he has given me back into praise.

The Old 9 to 5... Well 10 to 6:30...

So I started my job and I have been here for a month today. And I like it, it has its frustrations but I still like it. I work for a company called W.S. Live, which is a call center type business. They offer a certain number of agents to a client that needs call center type services. The program that I am on is the Intuit QuickBooks ProAdvisor. I am ProAdvisor Customer service. I walk people through the website, change their account information for them and help them with their certification on the website. It is a good job and I am apparently doing a good job at it. So even if i stay here or go somewhere else it is going to be a great experience for my professional life. So thank you all for your prayers.