What it’s all about!

A collection of stories about faith, God, and seeing things from a whole new perspective.

To give you a little background on how this blog came about.  I am in fulltime ministry and have the incredible blessing of being able to work from home most of the time.  My wife works as an early intervention speech therapist in the area.  So when our son Eli was born this past year we had to make a major decision.  We decided that because I naturally worked at home most of the time anyhow, that he would just stay with me during the day instead of taking him to daycare.

In my mind, I thought that it would be a peace of cake, plenty of time to work on messages, stuff for the church, and meet with people and every so often change a diaper.  I had no clue what I was in store for, and to be honest the first month or so was a challenge for me.  I would get my thoughts going on a message and ten minutes in, Eli would start crying.  I would get him changed and then a few minutes later he’d be crying because he was bored.  Then he would need changed, and the pattern continued on and on.  People would ask how I was doing with it and i would tell them,  “honestly, I’m exhausted.”  It gave me a whole new perspective and respect for stay at home moms.  I would feel bad because Lindsey would come home and ask what I had accomplished or done that day?  Well, nothing, would usually be my response, or like one load of laundry, and I would be embarrassed.  I had always been used to being busy with work, so this new type of life I has a hard time with, balancing my schedule and how to raise a child.

It has now been almost fifteen months and I wouldn’t trade one day of it for the world.  I have thankfully learned how to work my schedule to get my work done around his naps, humbled myself enough to ask others for help when needed, but most importantly learned to just enjoy the time with the little man.

God has truly blessed my time with him and given me a whole new perspective on my faith by now allowing me to see my faith thru the eyes of a child.  These are my stories, I hope you can relate.