Sunday Night Reflections…

What a weekend!  Here’s a few thoughts…

• I had several encouraging conversations and e-mails today–THANK YOU!
• For pastors appreciation day the church got me a Playstation III–DANG, that’s some SERIOUS LOVE!  I will be out for the next month…JUST KIDDING!  :-)
• I love this church, as I said today, next to my salvation, getting to be ‘Cretia’s husband and Charisse’s dad–there is NO GREATER JOY in my life than getting to pastor this church.  I love you guys and I am excited about all that God is doing here.
• Oh yeah…I guess I do say that a lot on this blog–it’s probably because I MEAN IT!  :-)
• Shawn Lovejoy brought nearly all his staff up from Georgia to our evening services today to hang out.  I am so honored that he and his crew would drive as far as they did.  I loved hanging out with his team.  By the way…Shawn hosts an amazing conference every year and this year they have an all star lineup of leaders.
• Once again–Clemson won, Carolina lost–GREAT WEEKEND!
• Lucretia and I ate at Mama Penn’s on Friday night…and then last night I went to Little Pigs during halftime of the Clemson game to pick up some BBQ…I am going to have to workout EXTRA hard tomorrow.
• I bought five books on Friday!  NOW I have a huge stack to tear through.  I read in waves…I may go for a month without reading something…and then will read several books in two weeks.  A-D-D!
• Lucretia and I are wanting to go on a nice vacation next April, somewhere warm and tropical…but are having a hard time coming up with a destination.  Does anyone have a recommendation of a place you have been and would go back to?
• Charisse spit up on me tonight–it was a good one–super chunky!  :-)  BUT it didn’t phase me, I held her tight and gave her a huge kiss!  Then it hit me–God loves us DESPITE our junk.  WOW–God is teaching me so much about His love through Charisse.
• I’ve got the song, “Ice, Ice, Baby” in my head and I CAN’T GET IT OUT!!!  AHHHHHH!
• I am going through a phase where I am not sleeping that good again…if you could pray for me I would REALLY appreciate it.  I really do like sleep!
• I am taking Charisse trick or treating on Wednesday…and will eat ALL her candy for her, hey, that’s what a dad is supposed to do.
• I really want to watch, “It’s the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown” this week…I LOVE Peanuts…especially the Christmas one.
• Creativity this Tuesday should be fun…we will be talking about our next series (called Stripped) and our Christmas services, which I am REALLY looking forward to.
• Is anyone going to beat the New England Patriots this year–dang, I think they are for real.
• The church sign post I put up the other day has had an amazing response.  I will release my top ten worse church signs list later this week…I am going to ask Tony to help me compile this list.  So far I think I have found the worse one…but they keep coming in so we will see.
• This Tuesday I will be posting an article that I actually wrote last Thursday.  It is ironic that I wrote this in light of some recent things I have gone through.  God is both Sovereign AND has an amazing sense of humor.

That’s it–bed time…g’nite!