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So, I spent ALL of my day-off yesterday… my one day to relax and recharge for the week ahead… after a week full of 20 hr days… IN MY ATTIC. Actually, it started Sunday afternoon (which is often the beginning of our family/down time). I did take a break to watch most of the Bills…

I feel like I have been playing lots of games lately. Games with our finances, making all of the right moves to extend our money and purchasing power as far as it will go. Scheduling life so that money at least will potentially continue to flow in. (That’s pretty much up to God for us,…

This week I have been working overtime you might say. So much to do, so little time before (1) our first week of vacation this year and (2) our departure for 2 months on tour. (Only to return to the busiest month of our year, December. So I have been trying to do what I…

I am in my office. It seems that I have gotten myself in over my head? I can not figure out why I have so much to do these days. It started with an attic project at the beginning of the summer… and has only piled up since then. So, here I am sitting in…

I noticed today that I operate a couple gears higher than most of my fellow neighbors. We live in Wayne County, NY. Wayne County is not NYC. It’s not even Rochester. Life here is slow, small-town, everyone-knows-everyone rural USA. I tend to be doing about 4 things at once minimum… sometimes more like 17. That…

My inclination is to still be angry at those who wronged me. To be frustrated by the “circumstances” that made them do what they did. But… I know, I really know, that is not what Jesus did. Life is not a bowl of cherries as they say, but in fact an endless series of opportunities…

Today I have had $6000 taken from me, along with that, the chance to make at least $60,000 more… and along with that, rejection after rejection in e-mails, and phone calls… And the mower wouldn’t start. It has been a completely crushing day, and this is my day-off. My day of relaxing and re-energizing for…

PHOTO CREDIT: nfl.com We remain big Buffalo Bills fans, even though they lost the game… gave UP the game… on the LAST play of the game today – 4th down… a crazy catch at the back of the end zone. Perhaps a glimpse at how the season will go this year? 🙂 0-1 and counting…

You hear people talk about God giving them faith to do something, and perhaps you think… that’s silly! Faith comes from ME, not from God. He gives me something to have faith IN, but not the faith. Well, I would agree with that. But I would add that perhaps there is some truth in the…

Sometimes it’s just really fun to see how and when God does stuff. Earlier this weekend, I commented to Jen – only half joking – that we really had no money (even the cushion we had for a while in savings was gone, because we spent it on what it was saved for, the new…