Blogging to you live from Atlanta Bread Company on University Drive
Last week, we were riding in the car and listening to Dave Ramsey. He was talking about the book, “48 days to the work you love” by Dan Miller. She said, “That sounds like a book I need.” I had heard Dave mention the book many times before, but I always love my job so I didn’t see any need to get the book. However, when she expressed an interest, I thought it would be a great opportunity for us to explore ways in which she can find her calling in life. Currently she is not happy at her current employment and I want her to make a change after we get married.
The book arrived yesterday afternoon via UPS. I opened the brown box and placed the book on the bar. Then I wrote a little note to her and sat it under the book. When she got to my house, I was laying on the couch reading “His Needs, Her Needs” as part of our pre-marriage counseling homework.
She saw the book on the counter and smiled really big. Then when we got in the car, she brought the book with her and began reading it. I can not even explain how happy that made me to see her reading that book. I know she doesn’t like to read, and it made me very proud of her to take an interest in the book, and trying to better herself. Self improvement is a very important goal I constantly work on, and I need my mate to partake in that journey with me in her own life.
Blogging to you live from McAlister’s Deli on University Drive (my post from yesterday 9/12/07 which didn’t upload)
Is anyone else out there thankful that we made it through yesterday with out any terrorist incidents on our soil? I am!
We watched the Oprah special last night (words you will not normally hear my manly self utter) about the children whose parents were killed in the towers and pentagon. Wow that was incredibly touching and caused me to get a little misty eyed. The kids kept talking about wanting to grow up and make their parents proud and being like their dads. Giving honor to the family name.
It made me think of the sermon at church a few weeks back when Dr. Hurt was talking about his childhood and how, while he wasn’t necessarily a Christian, he wanted to do things right so as not to cause shame to his family, and to make his parents proud.
That really rung true to me. I have tried very hard in life to do everything possible to make my parents proud, while making me a better person: graduating from high school with honors, getting scholarships to college, graduating college with a bachelor’s, going back and getting a Master’s degree, getting involved in music and also starting my own company.
Over the years, it has been the love of my parents and respect of them and their beliefs and the way that they raised me, that has kept me on the straight and narrow, which is where we should all be.
It’s like I told our pastor last night during the marriage counseling meeting, “We don’t want to be what society considers normal, which is broke, desperate, and stupid.” This is why I have sacrificed my entire life to save money to build this home for my family, where my wife can be and manage the day to day house duties while I’m out in the trenches making the cash to make our dreams come true.
As Tag and I discussed last night, if people are making fun of us for the way we are living, then we are 100% on the correct path, because the majority of society has it wrong, and only a select few will get it right. We are going to be a part of that select few who say good-bye to the ways of American culture, and hello to the truly good life.
After the Oprah thing, we watched more on the Glenn Beck special about the Beslan School Hostage Crisis from 2004 and about how these kinds of events are probably being planned for the USA. It is truly frightening to think that the horrors depicted on the Al-Qaeda video could happen here… just killing and torturing kids left and right. Horrific.
Make sure and tune into to your CNN Headline News channel at 7 PM Eastern to catch the Glenn Beck program as they talk more about this terror plot every night this week.
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