As One Door Closes

This is it. Today marks the end of my 2 year employment with Lombardini. In about 8 hours I will be unemployed. This is the biggest step of faith that I think I have ever taken in my life, and suprisingly I am not afraid. Thats not to say that I don't have concerns. I still have a family and bills to pay, but I have a sense of calm knowing that I am following God and that in time things will work out. I am realizing now that everything has led up to this point. The decission to go into ministry, the process of getting into school, the struggle with paying for school. They were all steps leading to now and I see how God has prepared me for this moment. If it was not for the struggle getting here, I don't know if I would be able to be at ease with this transition. God is truly amazing.

I am working on some new posts and now maybe I will have time to finish them.

I love you all.

Jobs!

Here I am exactly 2 weeks away from being unemployed. With classes starting on August 13th, I made the decision a while back to leave my current job at Lombardini USA. So much stuff has changed over the last month, mainly concerning where Faith and I will be living, I have put off finding a new job. Now that all of our housing is taken care of and I know where I will be spending at least the next 4 years, I need to find a job. I am not looking for much. Maybe something in retail. I don't want my work to take much time away from school. We have figured that I need to make between $1000 - $1500 a month to make all of our ends meet. I will also be living near the airport (I will be exploring those jobs soon). If anyone knows of a job opening, please let me know.

Here we go!

Well, I now feel like a student again. I have my first assignment and just like in high school, I waited to get started. Dr Huxford (Vice President for Student Development and Dean of the Chapel) has given an assignment to all incoming freshmen. By the time classes start on August 14th, we have to have read Amazing Grace: William Wilberforce and the Heroic Campaign to End Slavery. Yes, this is the book oh which the recent movie Amazing Grace was based. I found the book yesterday (Books-A-Million was the only place who had it) and I am going to start it today. I have just over 3 weeks to read it. It looks like it should be pretty good so expect to see some blog posts about it soon.

I've Been Tagged: 5 Weird Habits

OK, I usually don't do this stuff but I was tagged by Derek and I figured, what the heck. This is supposed to be 5 weird habits of mine, but then again, how weird can I be?

Gaming - I am an avid gamer. I love my xbox 360 (my wife hates it) and I tend to play a lot of sports games although I have to admit that I can't wait for Halo 3. I also follow developments in the world of xbox very closely. The new 65nm chipset (codenamed Falcon) is coming soon. Man I am a nerd. Guitar Hero, NCAA Football and Madden, here I come.

Kitchen Snob - I am extremely picky about my cooking utensils. I must have the best of everything. Wusthof knives, Calphalon cladded cookware, a Kitchen Aid mixer, everything must be glossy black and stainless steel.

Technology - I am obsessed with the latest technology and gadgets. Unfortunately, my kitchen snobbishness leaves me too poor to actually buy any new gadgets, but I will spend hours reading about them.

Comic Book movies and TV shows - Heroes, Transformers, Spider-Man, Batman. I don't think much more can be said.

Veronica Mars - I can't even begin to explain this one. (they canceled it, I am sad)

OK so I guess I am supposed to tag some other people out there so here it goes.

Ryckie

Anthony

and Teadra

You are It!!!