The past few months have been pretty incredible spiritually. I slowed up on the physical side, and I need to pick it back up. Mentally, I'm exhausted and down. It's so funny how I can't get all three to be great at the same time. It's like an energy flow problem or something.
I'm not complaining however, the spiritual growth and healing I have experienced over the past month has been incredible. I reconnected with a former mentor of mine from high school, and he has been leading me in the right direction to repair the parts of my life that need attention.
I have gotten incredibly into church. I don't know what I've written on here, but I know it's been a long, long time. Audrey is 15 months. She went to the farm on Saturday and picked out a pumpkin for Halloween. She is into everything. She is a climber. You will find her on top of anything in the house. She is a lot of fun to play with, and she is generally a pretty happy girl. She is into impatience and tantrums in the past few weeks which has made for some interesting public moments.
I have a photostream at flickr if you want to follow along pictorially with Audrey's adventures. I usually type this blog when I'm so tired that I can hardly hold my head up. I don't have time for anything that I need to do. That is one problem I must solve. It's non-stop teaching all day, and I'm just now getting used to that. I have been trying to do too much in one day I suppose. I need to just relax. However, when I have the students for such a short time, I feel like I spend an incredible amount of time keeping them quiet. By the time they get used to the way I teach they are gone.
I don't want to sit and complain, though, I want to share with you how blessed I am. I am such a lucky guy to have the most awesome wife I could ever need. I have a wonderful daughter. God has provided for us in our darkest hour and brought us out of the darkness. He has healed me in so many areas. I give him praise and glory for this above all things. Everything I have came from Him, and I am happy that I have come so far and have let go of all my past hurt, pain, and bitterness, and have dedicated myself to having a Christ-centered life.
Tonight I prayed long and hard for our family and I pray that it be solid and never fail, and that my wife and daughter be happy and grow up to love life and have the relationship with Jesus that I have now. I'm glad to be finished 'going my own way.'
