Ramblings

2010-07-12T12:02:00.001-07:00

Good Friends, Bad Days

2009-01-31T16:43:00.000-08:00

Today has been very stressful for my wife an me. Today we went to the funeral of a best friend of ours, Jennifer Powell. Jennifer died on Wednesday in a car wreck as she as trying to get home from work. No reason to go into details, but let's just say she was too young to die, but these things happen, right? There are alot of reasons why we don't allow people to get very close to us, and one of them is for this very reason I'm sure. When we allow people to get involved in our lives, and we get involved in theirs, things have the potential to get "messy." When I say messy, I mean we may get hurt, we may have to move away, and in short, it may get tough. We go through life saying stuff like, "no one cares about me," and the truth is, for us to have people care about us, we must first care about other people, and we must live "life" with other people. Sure, we never always saw eye to eye about everything, but that's what it means to be friends. As we watched the funeral unfold before our eyes today, we realized that in order to be friends, there will ALWAYS be a cost involved. Here's the thing; we are not meant to go through life alone, and that's why (i think) that Jesus said, that no one has no greater love than this, that a man would lay down his life for his friends." That is friendship, it will be messy, it will be hard, but in the end, it will be worth it....

Growing in the Desert

2009-01-17T15:06:00.000-08:00

Ya know, not many things grow out there in the desert, but we as Christians go through "desert" times with regard to our faith. Sometimes it seems as if God has all but forgotten us, but that's not the truth. The truth is that God will"never leave us or forsake us." I have just recently come out of a desert time in my life, and I have to tell you that as painful as it was to go through, it has made me stronger, and has encouraged me to thank God for the good and the bad times. I am so excited about seeing God work that there are times I can hardly contain it.
I'm not sure why I am writing this, but maybe someone needs to hear what I have to say. There is hope out there and you can find it in Christ. I hope this day finds you all doing well!
~chris

Cold Winter Day

2009-01-16T07:56:00.000-08:00

Hello everyone, I've never attempted to do anything like this before, but I do like to express my thoughts in writing, so I thought I'd give it a try. Today is going to be the coldest day that we've had here in RC, and I'm going to try to stay in side as much as possible. My kids are out of school and I'm off, so it could make for a fun day. Having two "almost" grown kids, I'm really thinking lately about how quickly time gets away from us, and if we're not really careful, we'll miss a good portion of life. We try to do so much and cram so much stuff into a 24 hour period, and most of it really does not have any "real" value. As a phrase from one of my favorite songs goes, we really only have "one life to love."
~chris