Preparation! Preparation! Preparation!

Life has become so much busier now that I'm the Interim Pastor at our church. Trying my best to keep everything running good and still keeping the youth going. Before this I was only speaking once a week in our youth service, but now I'm speaking in our Sunday morning service, Wednesday night Bible study, and our youth service on Thursday nights.

It seems like everyday at the church all I'm doing is message preparation, but I love it! At least now, I'm finally putting my time to better use and not wasting so much time doing other things that aren't beneficial. I guess you could call that time management skills. Well enough of this, better get ready for tonight's message!

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an update...

Wow! Life has been going by so fast and with changes! The church where I work at, our Senior Pastor has resigned so for now I'm filling in till a new Senior Pastor is hired. I also started running again since my awesome wife got me a new pair of running shoes! I sure do miss running on the Bay Bridge over the water, but running in the school parking lot isn't too bad... haha!

I also spent my birthday money on getting the P90X so I'm excited about getting started on that soon! Well I better get my message finished up since I'll be preaching at our church in the morning!

a new year

Well, it's the beginning of 2012 and another year of resolutions. It always seems I start off really good and then just kind of tail off and forget about it all, but not on purpose. Just stink this year I'll start off small and let my main focus be to keep it going. This has been one of the first years where I haven't made a list. Guess maybe b/c it hasn't worked that well. Main things for this month is no sodas and sweet tea only on Sundays & finances for our family. Also start running again and getting started on the P90X. I need to order it so I can get everything and want to try and do it well. It's just so hard to find the time, b/c it'll either be very early in the morning or late at night when I would get to do it. We'll see!

Also want to get in shape good b/c I want to go run in the Warrior Dash. You can check out the video on www.warriordash.com. It's 3.4 miles with 12 obstacles. It's coming up in April so I need to start getting ready now! Enough for now.

So drained...

Man, I just can't seem to get over this feeling of feeling so emotionally drained. Almost 2 weeks ago I flew out to San Antonio to preach a funeral for one of the guys that use to be in our youth group when we youth pastored in Seguin. This is the first time we've ever had someone pass away that was a part of our ministry anywhere. It was so good to see everyone I was able to see from Texas... I sure miss do miss a lot of our friends from there.

The funeral went as good as a funeral could possibly go, but when I flew out the next morning to come back home I sat down at the airport after getting to my gate and just lost it and cried like a baby. It's like everything just him me like a ton of bricks all at one time. I'm guessing I was just so busy for that 19 hours in Texas, that I never had time to take it all in. Adam, was a great and very unique guy. I think out of all the guys in our youth group in Texas that I spent the most time with him one on one.

Just praying now for his family and also for myself. I can't ever remember feeling this emotionally drained. I know God will fill me back up... just the waiting process now. A big thank you to our Texas family that was there to help me out while I was there! We miss you Adam!

Softball, Running & Randomness

Well, I haven't been updating the blog like I wanted but I'm trying (well a little bit). I can't remember where I left off on my last blog, but I think since then I ran my first 5K at the Bay BridgeFest in Bay St. Louis, MS in June and it went really good. I finished in 30:58 which was really good b/c I had been averaging around 33 minutes! I've slacked off running a good bit since then, but starting to pick back up again.

Man, I've been lonely this past week. Staci and the kids are in NC visiting all of her family. The house is so quiet!!! Kind of creepy! They left to go up there while I was going to kids & youth camp. I didn't have to end up going to kid's camp so I've been home by myself for a week.

I've also started playing softball again! Our church has a team and we're playing in the Harrison County League. A lot of fun, but I don't care for the 30 minute drive every time! It's been about 4 years or so since I've last played. It's a lot of fun even though we've been getting smoked every game, except tonights game. We only lost by 1 run!!! It was a lot of fun though.

Still trying to get my weight down some. I guess everyone does or almost everybody. I was around 219 then I got down to 211 and then I slacked off running and now at 215. I am eating a lot better and healthier so that's good. Just gotta exercise more, but it's easier to be lazy!!! Ok, enough of boring you all... well the one or two that might read this! I need to take a shower!

Chris

run & walk, run & walk, run & walk, run & walk....

This morning I got up and ran again, but tried a different pace and I really like it. You run for a minute and walk for a minute and did that for 25 minutes. I ended up going a little over 2 miles in about the same time I usually jogged it. Hopefully this will help me to pick up my jogging pace a little and this makes where it's not quite as boring. I've got to remember to take my ipod with me! It was a nice change of pace. I may do this for a week then jog for a week and mix it up till I'm ready for the 5k. I've got to remember to go to the bathroom before I go jogging to, b/c I was over 1/2 a mile away from home and I needed to go to the bathroom! I was able to hold it in case you were wondering. Ok, now back to work. I'm sure you wanted all those details!