Today I have been a dad for nine years.  What follows is a journal entry I made the day he was born.

Every week the excitement begins brewing on Wednesday, continues to build on Thursday, and cannot be contained on Friday. 

In Acts 9 Luke tells us that Ananias is a key player in Saul’s conversion.   Can you imagine the courage required for Ananias to go visit this guy who was breathing out murderous threats against anyone who claimed to follow Christ.  There is no doubt that he was nervous about the visit.

The second thing I do that helps me with my materialistic bent is to change the way I think about life.  I have been to Doropo, Ivory Coast and these people have nothing.  IF you look at the picture to the right its me in one of their kitchens. 

When I was growing up I spent a lot of time at the lake with a bunch of cousins.  We had huge chicken fights.  The smaller kids got on the shoulders of the older kids and waged a war to see who could be the last one standing.  I was one of the younger cousins [...]