Allow me to introduce you to Kris Clifford. A lifelong friend. Who inspires me and doesn't even know it. There are people in your life who you just gravitate towards. Kris is one of them for me. He is an incredible leader, and an aspiring youth pastor, and a gifted musician. There are a lot of things that have been hard for me in my move to Houston, but losing the daily - weekly interaction with a best friend it tough. True friends are so cool, they allow you to be real, to be yourself. Even if being yourself is less (for a lack of a better word) good, than you would normally portray yourself. I promise I am not getting on my soap box, but that'’s how I feel about church today. We put on this game of pretending that we are all perfect but in fact we are all broken, and hurting people. We are all dealing with the same issues as others, and if we were to band together and be honest a lot of people would break through a lot of bad situations. Anyways, Kris is going to be getting a blog started soon and it'’s gonna rock, because he always has a lot of cool things to say.

Thank you for being a true friend.

charlottesville

I love college football. I am an ACC fan. I am now living in Texas, who by their own right has great college football. But at my core, I long to see the teams from the east coast. I am a UVA fan. I know that they aren’t even in the top 5 of conference. I don’t know I just love UVA, not only because I used to live 20 mins from the campus. I think that it’s a great school. I wasn’t able to watch the game on saturday but I did listen to it on the internet. UVA won’t finish at the top, but that’s ok. I can live with that. With teams like Miami, Virginia Tech, Florida State, it’s going to be tough. I’m ready for the ride.

a few new pics up...

a few new pics are up on my flickr site. You can visit it here.

fame

In college I remember waking up one morning with a revelation of sorts. I wasn’t struggling with a lot of things, I wasn’t working. I was pretty much still living off of my parents. I was living the easy life, besides school. Which because of it’s nature was pretty hard. Anyways, I remember waking up, and looking around in my apartment, and then looking out the window at the beautiful city of Orlando. Then I remember God telling me that he loves me very much, but all this wasn’t for me. He didn’t make any of these things for me. All the good things that I had done, or the stuff I had accumulated wasn’t really mine. It was all His, and for His fame, and His glory. I know that that’s something that you would learn in your first time you went to sunday school. I think a lot of us “know” that fact. But most of us don’t truly live like we believe those words. This hits home with all of the stuff that’s happening in the Gulf Coast. We may never know exactly why God chose this, but you have to remember that out of it God will achieve his purposes. And God’s glory and His renown are #1.

katrina

Because of my previous job as a news videographer I am addicted to watching tv news. It doesn’t matter what I am doing in the house or when the clock strikes 6pm or 10pm I always turn on the tube. The footage that is coming out of New Orleans is just amazing.
I can’t even begin to imagine what it would be like to still be in that city. I saw a video on CNN.com today where there was a women in a wheelchair that had died. Someone had covered her in a blanket. There was also another body next to the wheelchair. People are being bussed from LA to here in Houston, our church is doing whatever we can to help out. I heard someone say today that God uses situations like this to bring “people of faith” together. And we need to rise up and take action. To serve others.