Looking Back
A lot can change in a year. I recall wanting to write a letter to myself at this time last year in hopes that I could look back a year later and see if or how things had improved. Thing is, I was too frustrated with my circumstances to bring myself to sit down and write about it.
It’s crazy to me how much can happen in a years time. Those who know me know that I’m an eager self starter always ready for the next adventure. My life changed almost over night when I had the opportunity to move to California, now over two years ago. READ MORE
A Personal Milestone
About a week ago I had the incredible opportunity to overcome something that’s been on my mind for almost a year and a half. Most of you know that freestyle motocross has been a passion of mine for a long time and the opportunity to move to Southern California to pursue it full time was a dream come true. I cannot begin to express how thankful I am for the opportunities I’ve had over the last two years since moving here. It’s been one blessing after another and there are so many incredible people that have been instrumental in helping me pursue this dream. READ MORE
“Give Me Today”
I hate that I’m always ready for the next thing. I hardly get settled into one season of life and I’m already chomping at the bit to move on to the next. I so often work myself into a tizzy thinking that life and the world is going to pass me by if I don’t do something about it. It’s true we need to be proactive and strive to move forward, but not at the cost of becoming discontent with where we’re at.
The world tells us if you’re uncomfortable do something about it. Change it. I agree to some extent that we have to do our part, using the gifts an abilities He has given us but I also believe that God often times lets us linger in those uncomfortable seasons, no matter how much we try to escape them, for our growth and refinement. READ MORE
My Trip to Tennessee to Test the New Kawasaki Teryx 4
Again, Kawasaki made me feel MUCH more legit than I am!
So it’s been quite some time since I’ve posted an actual update on life and my current goings on. If you follow me on facebook you’ll know that I’ve spent the last nine or so months all over the country…literally. It’s funny how life has its ups and its downs and God has an interesting tendency to push us to the breaking point (at least it seems that way) and then lavish his love on us in new and unexpected ways that we never could have dreamed up on our own. Thats kinda how the last year has been for me.
I continue to be amazed at the opportunities I am blessed with. Most recently was an incredible opportunity to travel to Tennessee and meet up with Kawasaki Motor Corp. and test out their new Offroad Teryx 4 UTV. I got an email about three weeks ago from the editor of a website, whom I’ve never actually met, asking if I’d be interested in going. Turns out I got his email from someone and about a year ago when I was unemployed and looking for work I had sent out a mass email expressing my interest in doing freelance for anyone and everyone. He told me he thought he’d just give me a shot and see if I was interested. READ MORE
Poor Visibility
I’m a fan of analogies and since I’m on a walk by faith kick right now, I’ll use another one I thought of the other day as my flight landed in Cleveland Ohio. I was on a red eye headed to North Carolina and needless to say, very tired.
As the pilot notified us of our initial decent, I could see the lights on the ground several miles below. I closed my eyes again for the remaining 30 minutes of the flight, opening them periodically to judge how soon we would be landing by how close we were to the ground. Funny thing, for the final fifteen or twenty minutes of the flight I could see almost nothing as the plane was completely engulfed in thick fog.
Then out of nowhere the ground appeared and couldn’t have been more than a few hundred feet away. It took me by surprise because almost as quickly as we regained visibility, we were on the ground taxiing down the runway.
The pilot did an exceptional job landing the aircraft despite severely limited visibility and that’s what got me thinking about walking by faith. No doubt the pilot’s vision was limited but he had three contributing factors helping guide him in and we have similar outside sources helping us along as we walk by faith in times or poor visibility. READ MORE
Significant Insignificance
Have you ever done something small or seemingly insignificant for someone and later come to discover that it meant the world to them? Often times the most minuscule and meaningless tasks can make the biggest difference to a person who is hurting or in need of encouraging. READ MORE
Childlike Faith
Faith is hard sometimes. It shouldn’t be. But it is. Trusting in the unknown. Relying on someone we can’t see and hoping to make some sense out of a seemingly impossible situation. God doesn’t fault us for wondering. He just asks us to trust. He commands us not to worry.
I say it shouldn’t be hard because if God really is who He claims to be in the Bible, then we truly have nothing to worry about. One who “knew us before He formed us in the womb” who knows the number of hairs on our head and who’s monthly calendar spans not 30 days but 30,000 years.
Its safe to say if we truly believe that, why is faith so hard? READ MORE
Entitled to Know
“I don’t care what it is, I just want to know what God wants me to do with my life.” That thought is echoed by countless people, young and old around the world as we seek to discern the call that God has placed on our lives. I understand that all to well because that was me during my four years of college. While I had my own plans and dreams of working in the action sports world, I thought for sure God had other plans when he called me to abandon those dreams and attend a liberal arts school in southern Illinois.
My plea then became, “Ok God, now what? I don’t care what it is, just show me what, where and when.” And for the better part of four years, He was silent. READ MORE