Getting Closer

The Countdown to Baby Grant continues. We have started going to the doctor like every week. It is becoming more and more real to me as our stroller and some of our cloth diapers have come in the mail yesterday. To my wife, I think it became real when she had morning sickness a back at the first month. That is how men and women are different, I guess. Here are some recent pictures of us, as you can see, we're getting closer and closer...

We are excited about visiting Orlando this weekend. We have not really gotten to see a lot of people from our church and other people in the city we know. If you are not going to see us this weekend do not worry because we can only see so many people and we will probably be coming back to do our baby dedication and speak at some churches so let us know you really miss us with a comment and maybe we can see you sometime. (That last paragraph makes us sound like we are celebrities, its not true I promise)

Also another thing that you can be praying for everyone out there. Is that I spoke to the Inter Fraternal Council at USF last Wednesday and got a few fraternities interested in what we are doing there and how we can help them accomplish their goals. I have followed up with an email and I got no responses. The Lord answered my prayer with the president of IFC, Matt, letting me speak out of at the meeting Please pray as I continue to follow up with all my contacts that they would be interested and for the few that may not that they would tell me straight up. I will be following up with them on Monday.

Life as we know it

So its the middle of September. I am discouraged in a lot of ways that I do not want to list out. Well, some of the reasons I have not really pinpointed yet. I do not want to list them out mainly because it makes me more discouraged and I do not like to be negative, but the problem with that is that sometimes I come off being a little bit in denial. You know what I am saying all you optimistic people out there. Sometimes we can be a bit fake. There I said it! I actually hate being fake, but I my realism and my optimism sometimes battle for my behavior and my realism seasoned with shades of optimism usually wins. I feel that lately I have been trying to be optimistic lately and stuck my realism in the backseat, which means also my transparency. So at least, I just want to be open and honest on our blog. It gives me an outlet.

In ministry, I feel like one must act like he has it altogether (although folks I would not try this at home). Sometimes it just happens whether you try to do it or not. Your ministry becomes more like a stock market investment. You want to always make sure the shareholders are always happy so they keep investing. One can never run his or her ministry like a business, but its a temptation sometimes.

Having said all that I want profess that the Lord owns everything including our hearts. The Lord has provided for us to this step even when stuff goes wrong. The Lord has put a roof over our heads. He has given us good health. He has given me at doing language learning even if I am not as good as Jonathan Prudhomme :) We want to hold fast to Isaiah 41:8-10 and apply it to what God is doing in our family.

In other news, continue to pray for my time at USF. In the area of getting involved in the fraternity system and starting a Bible study, I need the Lord's help. I have one person I have met with face to face named Adam that seems interested and then a few friend of a friend people that I have yet to get in contact with. Amanda and I are extremely grateful for John, Kerri, and Ross who are on staff and been a great encouragement.

I will leave you with the comparison the maps of UCF and USF campus. The universities are the same size but USF is so much more spread out. At UCF, you just park and walk where you need to go, but at USF that does not really work because it can take you like 30 minutes, which means extra confusion for Rodney in his parking adventures.