this post is entirely for me. i'm trying to have a more positive outlook on the summer. its hard, but i'm trying. i'm trying to make myself realize there is some good stuff that will happen this summer ( Read more... )

well laura has now run off for the summer :(. and if you couldn't guess i'm not exactly the happiest man in the world right now. i certainly wish she didn't have to go, but thats irrelevant now--she's gone till august and i'm going to have to live with that. i should be able to stay fairly busy these next couple months which should help the time go ( Read more... )

well hello lj world. again its been a while ( Read more... )

it seems that God has a way of making easter a special day for me. the past few years have all been good and sunday was no exception. this easter i was especially busy. we had just gotten back into birmingham from the florida keys saturday night a little after 10:30pm and i was frantically trying to unpack from that trip, repack for heading back ( Read more... )

well its been a good week--not too much school work and other good happenings. i'll post about Easter soon, but to the future now i look ( Read more... )

well spring break was last week and it was quite good. my family took a trip down to the florida keys. it was relaxing and was incredibly beautiful. the water was just full of the most amazing colors and the sunsets were awesome. i've been sitting on my computer going through pictures, and i realize again just how beautiful it all was (see pictures ( Read more... )

well yesterday was an interesting day. it was absolutely beautiful outside (as it is right now as i sit outside in a pair of gym shorts and a t-shirt). spring is showing its first signs of arriving. the seasons are in that mode of change. perhaps then its somewhat appropriate that i may have begun a new chapter of life yesterday--i had a date last ( Read more... )

this past weekend i was blessed with the opportunity to work with some amazing people and help put on the 'encounter' weekend in gatlinburg tenn for the youth of the north alabama untied methodist conference. read an article on it here ( Read more... )

so i haven't updated or read anyone else's pages in i dont know how long. hopefully i haven't missed anything too crazily important/exciting. here's a quick update on my life ( Read more... )

tonight i was helping with my second to last element this semester and we had a speaker with an incredible story.
( read this if you want to understand more )