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Let me start off by saying that I am a Christian, and I do understand how people can get caught up when you have someone speaking confidently and charismatically about something you are passionate about. That being said, please stop sharing Joshua Feuerstein's video about destroying evolution in three minutes. He in no way destroys evolution and it's just embarrassing the lack of actual

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It's 3:30 in the morning and a cry shrieks out from Sophia's room. Probably teething but what ever it is, it causes her to call out in hope for some help, some relief. In comes daddy stumbling in, picks her up, changes her diaper and just holds her. Slowly we rock and the cries stop. She calms down and Sophia curls up on my chest and just lays there. Not quite sleeping but definitely calm

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   Over the last several days we have seen the horrific devastation that has been unleashed in Japan. Starting with one of the largest earthquakes in recorded history, to the tsunami that followed minutes later sweeping thousands out to sea,  to the potential nuclear meltdown that is occurring as I type this blog. Japan is suffering, they are grieving, they are in a state of utter

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2 Timothy 2:22-26 ESVSo flee youthful passions and pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, along with those who call on the Lord from a pure heart. Have nothing to do with foolish, ignorant controversies; you know that they breed quarrels. And the Lord's servant must not be quarrelsome but kind to everyone, able to teach, patiently enduring evil, correcting his opponents with gentleness.

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As I was having some quiet time with God this morning, I was reading John chapter 10 where Jesus is describing himself as the good shepherd. He knows his sheep, and they know him just by the sound of his voice. They follow after him alone, they know his voice and trust it with out hesitation. The sheep have a love, a respect and a dedication to him. What an amazing show of trust and love on the

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As I spent some quality time with God this morning I was going through my reading and devotional plan for today and the verse was Isaiah 1:18 " come now, let us reason together, says the Lord: though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red like crimson, they shall become like wool."This got me to thinking, we have a God who wants to be so personally

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My son who is not quite four yet is always tirelessly busy on his magna doodle drawing all sorts of things that for the most part have been delightful blobs and random shapes, that is until this month. If you don't know my wife and I are expecting another child in April, a baby girl. now Ben has been trying to wrap his brain around the idea of a little baby in mommy's belly. A hard concept to

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We are at the Sugarland concert tonight and having a great time! Allie and I are here with Brian and Shirley, today's their anniversary by the way, and I'll be honest with you I am not much of a country fan but I do believe that is changing. Currently listening to Little Big town and I do believe that I will have to get their album. All that aside, I got up to take a pee break and afterwards

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This is how my son, Ben, has been starting a lot of his thoughts to me lately. One of the most recent ones went like this, "Daddy! Wouldn't it be cool if we made a giant robot that could take us to the store and turn into a robot and we would sit in it's eyes. And after we got there it would change back into a robot and squish bad guys!...that would be awesome!!!". And my only response to

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I was listening to NBC Nightly News recently and it was towards the end of the show during the segment "Making a Difference" that really caught my attention. The town was Grafton, Wisconsin and the whole town rallied around a single mom who has been diagnosed with cancer and her twins that have been diagnosed with some form of spinal atrophy disease that will confine them to a wheel chair for

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So yesterday I was going to be the nice husband and while my wife is at work go pick up her car and clean it. And with a 3yr old in tow on a regular basis did it ever need it! I head to the American Pride carwash to empty the VAST amounts of trash and begin the vacuuming of the car, when the manager of the car wash comes over. Jim, the manager, asked if there was anything that he could do to

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In the potential wake of the "snow storm of the decade" for Raleigh I headed off to the local WalMart for my groceries nothing out of the ordinary. When I went in around 8:45 am not much of a line @ all. Cut to scene 1 hour later while I'm cashing out, and there are lines like crazy! It amazes me how people will flip out about the "threat" of snow!- Posted using BlogPress from my iPod Touch

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Have you ever had one of those mornings where everything was just going perfect and then your 3yr old son says literally seconds from pulling into the daycare, "I gotta go potty daddy!" which in actuality translates to "I am in the process of peeing my pants daddy, could you change them for me?". Yeah... that's where I'm at today! Yay team Daddy!- Posted using BlogPress from my iPod Touch

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I just had a duh moment on the way to work this morning. You know how when you travel to work you see some of the same cars every morning... Well I have been seeing a Honda Element for the last several months off and on and the plate on it is a vanity plate that says "GAILIUM". I just got it this morning, Gailium...Honda "Element", Gail is probably her name and she made it sound like an element

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We are on our way to lovely New York City for the weekend. It is a whirlwind 12 hour excursion of fun, adventure & exploration! My wife and I gathered a few items and some warm clothing and loaded up on a tour bus with four of our friends and about 40 others to go see NY @ Christmas time. We are currently somewhere in VA. and off to fun times. I was hoping to get some sleep tonight since we left

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Yesterday we went to get our family Christmas tree...a trip that my son was quite excited about! My son is 2 about to turn 3, and very excited about Christmas and Santa in general. We started our adventure at a local tree lot to peruse the merchandise if you will. The size tree we were wanting to get started off at $60! There was actually a tree there that was $225...it was a big tree but I'm

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So I am sitting in my car waiting to turn at a red light when out of no where a large group, dare I say it, a "gang" of scooter riders come whizzing by! I kid you not, a gang of 7 scooter riders with their scooter mamas on the back holding on tight! I maybe alone in this thought but I found that to be the funniest thing I had seen.- Posted using BlogPress from my iPod

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Fewer words scare a parent more than those mentioned in the title..."potty training". Just the mere mention of this causes anxiety in my soul! Oh it seems like a easy enough thing to train a child to do, I mean I do fairly good job of using the potty myself...how hard can it be?! Wow, noone ever tells you about ALL of the "accidents" that happen in the process and just how much laundry you end

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Change...we here a lot of people talk about it, heck it was even the focal point of President Obama's campaign, but what is it? Is it as simple as saying "Out with the old and in with the new!"? I feel that if it were that simple to change that we would live in a much different world where only the best nature of man would be shown. Since we currently live in a very dark world where the best of

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nbsp;  Keeping promises...it seems like a simple concept does it not? But why is it so hard for some people to do. At work something I have told my servers is that if they tell a guest that they will be back with a napkin or with refills, then they need to be back with a napkin or refills. Keep your promise to the guest and they will take note! Some of them have taken it to heart and some

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As I prepare for another day at work I had the opportunity to chat with my sister on facebook. We talked about about life in general and caught up to some degree on each others life. With my job I don't get back home as often as I would like because home is pushing about 8 to 9 hours away. The sad truth is that if we weren't on facebook I would probably not chat or talk that much with a majority

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Have you ever been so tired that you couldn't even make it to your bed?! That is where I was at just the other day. I got home from work, I work in restaurants, and nearly fell out on the floor. Slowly I crawled to bed and tried my best to sleep a few short hours before my wife got up to go to work and my son got up to go to daycare. After that I am up because I lack the ability to take 30 minute

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So I am taking my son into day care today and as we get to his room they are eating cheerios. My son quickly runs to his seat to chow down on some cheerios and milk, when one of his teachers says to him "Ben, tell daddy bye!". He gets up from his seat and says "I want to give you a hug and a kiss daddy!", which that in and of itself is enough to make your heart melt. At that same time 3 other

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Well here it is the first blog of my life...probably the saddest excuse for a blog is ones first! I have to get it out of the way to pave the way for all the future thoughts that will pour from my mind and onto the keyboard. What is there to say... so much going on in the world with wars, health care reform and sadly Michael Jackson's death. I swear if i never hear another thing about Michael

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