One Month Left!

We will be home in about a month. This trip has been strange but good. I know a month is a while yet but it is nice to think about.

Anyway, I heard this song recently and it reminded me of the "prodigal son" story from the Bible.

Here Comes Sandy!

Hurricane Sandy is off the coast a ways. It has been windy and rainy but I don't think there will be any need for concern at this point. I would be concerned for the north east coast though. It is projecting to hit them a bit harder and longer.

Anyway, I just wanted to give an update.

Church
We are headed up to Oasis Tampa this weekend. We are getting in Friday night and will leave Sunday night. Lucas is flying down to Tampa to spend times with us and all the Florida pastors. I will be doing the music this Sunday again. I made a track for the Hillsong United song called "Love Enough". I like it.
Anyway, it will be really good to see Lucas. Brit and I miss home quite a bit and this will tide us over for the next month.

Football
My fantasy teams have both been bad. And my real life team has been bad. It is a bad year for me.
*Sigh*
The optimist in me comes out though. The Chiefs could finish the season at 11-5 if they get it together. That would most certainly be good enough for a playoff birth. Very unlikely that it will happen but I wooonnnnnnttt stop beeliiieeeevvvinng!

Knitting
Brittany has been knitting like a mad man. Her hands seem robotic at times. It makes me feel like I should learn how to knit and join her.

Thought for tonight
Holiness and righteousness are two different things. They are not the same. You cannot interchange them. Righteousness means right standing (a simple definition) and is talking about actions (we now have a righteousness that comes through faith). Holiness has to mean something else or the Bible is just redundant. “Holiness means wholeness. To say that “God is holy” is to refer to the wholeness, fullness, beauty, and abundant life that overflows within the Godhead. God lacks nothing. He is unbroken, undamaged, unfallen, completely complete and entire within Himself. He is the indivisible One, wholly self-sufficient, and the picture of perfection. Holiness is not one aspect of God’s character; it is the whole package in glorious unity.” (Paul Ellis - The Gospel in Ten Words)
When God says that you are holy or to be (to be is different than to "do") holy, we need to think a different way. God has made us righteous and holy but let's understand the difference between the two. 

good morning!

Hello, friends!
I've been up since a bit after 5 this morning, which has given me the motivation (i.e., I have already done everything there is to do...) to write another blog post.
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Last weekend was great! On Friday night, we went up to Boca Raton (where Monday's Presidential Debate will be held!) to hang out with the ever-fabulous Joanna Beasley! She was hanging out on tour with Britt Nicole (featuring Group 1 Crew and Royal Tailor) for the Florida shows and invited us to come spend some time with her. It was really great! Jo is a very dear friend to us, and having someone from home be here and take time to see us meant a lot to us.
Then on Saturday, we booked it out to Tampa! We crossed the Tampa Bay on an incredible bridge, aptly named the Sunshine Skyway, and meandered our way to Land O' Lakes, where the pastors of Oasis Tampa live. They invited us into their home, fed us steak (as you all know, a good steak goes a long way towards us loving you forever...) and generally just spent time with us. It was great! We discussed some church logistics and such, as we are in Florida for "business"... But, there was college football on and lots of just goofing around. It was great.
Sunday morning, we went to Oasis Tampa for a service. The facility they have is awesome and fits their demographic as a church really well. Justin let worship and we were able to get to know the congregation a bit before we headed out to the football game!
The game itself was fun, because we were in the 3rd row, nearly in the center of the end-zone. Prime seats! You could practically smell the turf! However, the Chiefs, headed up by none other than Notre Dame's Brady Quinn, lost miserably. There were a few KC fans around us, and the Bucs fans were pretty cool and not nearly as drunk and pissed off as the Colts fans we sat next to last year were... However, that fine afternoon in Tampa was disgustingly hot with little cloud cover or breeze... So, we pretty much baked. We both have pretty gross-looking farmer's tans and our sunburnt noses are just now starting to look completely normal again. Regardless, an NFL game is always a fun experience.
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This weekend, nothing big on the schedule. Justin and I have been watching Friday Night Lights on Netflix, so we'll probably watch a couple episodes of that. The Chiefs have a bye-week, so I don't have to worry about them losing and Justin getting all (more) sad. We'll have a meeting with Oasis Miami tomorrow and of course, service on Sunday. And thats about it!
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Justin and I are arranging our fantasy football rosters for the week and listening to potential artists/albums to be added to Justin's iTunes. Some of the songs previews require dancing along. Dancing involves mainly moving our heads and shoulders as we sit next to each other.
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I'm still homesick.
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This weekend, we head out to Tampa! We will be visiting Oasis Tampa and also going to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers/Kansas City Chiefs football game. Justin is really excited. I am almost excited. I am slowly learning to enjoy football, something I never thought was an option for me. But, I've come to the thought that my marriage is much more pleasant if we both compromise a bit on such things. I tag along to NFL games (which are actually pretty awesome) and sports bars to catch games over a pile of loaded fries. And Justin doesn't complain as I subject him to the endless array of fairly pointless documentaries and crime dramas on Netflix InstantPlay. It makes it much easier to then, on a quiet night, sit next to each other on the couch and fake-dance while listening to iTunes previews.

This Week!

This week we have plenty to do! I am preparing some tracks for this weekend. Brit and I will be visiting Oasis Tampa and doing church with them. We will use the tracks I am making for the worship portion. They are electronic sounding, so we are going to have a good time.

After church, we will head to the Chiefs vs. Bucs game. Chiefs lost this Sunday but we finally saw the defense come together. There were questionable calls from the refs in the game that went against the Chiefs but I am not worried about that. They have the formula to win and I believe they will do it!

Anyway, it's gonna be a good week.

It's Sunny Today

I always forget what salt water tastes like until it hits me in the face. I think I got a little bit up my nose today. It wasn't a pleasant sensation but it was nice to get some sun.

Fantasy Football
I was let down this week. My team should have won but I fell short. 40 points short. Sad. I am working the waiver wire hard because I have some bi-weeks coming up. I have great starters but my bench is weak. Right now I feel like a bad general manager/head coach. (Kind of like the Chiefs right now!)

Winn Dixie
We have discovered that the Winn Dixie down her is much better than the Publix. The specific one we go to has a BBQ bar. It is full of delicious, hot items. I wish Martin's would get something like this. It really tastes better than anything Martin's has.

I need to work on some music tracks.