encouragements and more…

weston having fun in his new redneck pool. out in the front yard and everything!

i am soooo pumped! check this out…my son, Weston, is a natural! i have said it before and will say it again. watch out Tiger, Phil, & World! look at this…

i promise you that he naturally put his hands in this position with NO help! now i have seen the pictures of Tiger Woods when he was this age and the grip he had at 10 months and let me tell ya, Dubya’s is just as good! i was hoping to post the pic of Tiger’s grip at 10 months but can’t find it. if you find it, send it to me so i can post it.

keep it in the short grass!

well back in December our connection theVine brought a cool cat; Jason Sebren, on board as our Outreach Pastor. now this dude is for real! not only does he preach it, he lives it! check this out…one of the many things that jason does is minister to homeless women and children at theGarden by loving on them and discipling them. i invite you to check out his blog and read about his and his wife Nikki’s calling to adopt a 9 month old little boy named Deonte. now before you check out, hear this, the boy had been living with his biological mother on the streets of Atlanta. He was HOMELESS! i can’t help but think of this reading from the Word and be thankful for Jason and Nikki and their inspiration!

ok, if you were to consumed with time to check out the link to Jason, here is the video he just put out of the “family dance party”.

Family Dance Party from sebren on Vimeo.

well i took a moment over the weekend to make a compilation video of Weston. the clips aren’t in any particular order so i hope that doesn’t confuse anyone. the very first clip in the video is the latest shot and they kind of go back in time to around thanksgiving. sorry for the amateur editing job. i hope you enjoy…

i can’t do everything. i mean, if i did everything that i wanted to do, there would be no sleep. keith with no sleep is NOT good! ask my wife! here are the things i used to do and would like to still be doing preWeston.

1. blogging: i found a new love last year through blogging. no, not of the flesh but of the soul. when i was a kid i use to write…ALOT. there is something spiritual about putting your thoughts down on paper well on a computer in this case . it’s like the soul comes alive and takes on a whole other dimension. i’ve had more epiphonies through putting my thoughts down that i remember and that is cool! however right now my blogging has taken a back seat.

2. serving at theVine: i like to think that i have a servants heart. i haven’t always, but in the last six years God has really changed me on the inside. when i use to ask, what was in it for me? or say i would rather go fishin’ or huntin’…i now yearn for opportunities to serve. theVine is a church that breeds servants and there are some of the most amazing servants in the world who serve there. however, right now my service is to my family first and what i can fit in otherwise.

3. work out: July11, 2008 was my last work out. i was down to a buck fitty and leaning up! my stamina had increased, my cholestorol was down, my connection to the soul was at an all time high and my wife could put her arms ALL the way around me. ok she can still do that but the difference is that now she has something to hold on to. i heart being in shape. God heart’s me being in shape. maybe when this season passes, i will regain my former massive lean physiqueness. is that a word or did i spell it right? maybe that is the french spelling. idk?

bottom line is this. there are things that i would really like to be doing with my time. there are things that i have put on the back burner. there are things that i might not get back to for a long time. there are things i might get back to in a short time. point is this, i WILL get back to them. Ecclesiastes 3 starts off by saying: “There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens…” this chapter speaks to me. heck, it spoke to john lennon so much he put it to music! i have to keep reminding myself of this passage and remember, my number one mission field is my family. my desires come second to His desires for me. and one day when life does get back to the way it was for me preWeston, i just bet that i will be blogging about how life was “preWeston Moving Out”!

be content, be thankful, be encouraged!

well the time is flying by and "Dubya" is now over 12 lbs. it’s happy and sad that he is growing. i am trying to soak up all of him i can as a baby. i know it only will last for such a short season. however, there is an old wives tale down here in the "dirty south" (whatever that means) that once a baby reaches 12 lbs. they will sleep through the night. well call it a bunch of huewey if you will but "W" has slept 8 hours straight every night since last friday when we found out he had breached the 12 lb mark. HURRAY!!! he is so amazing and i am so greatful that God has entrusted ali and i with such a blessing.

ok, before i post a few pix…i was thinking the other night; when i tried to clip Weston’s finger nail and clipped the end of his thumb instead (yeah, what a terrible daddy), how much our heavenly father must ache for us when we are hurt. it eases my pain as a father when weston is hurt to know that JC has taken the ultimate pain away for us. i want to learn to hand my pain over to Him more so that i don’t have to suffer as much. what a great Father He is!