College life

So she's off to college and having a blast. She found out that college is different but really fun and now that classes have started the work begins. It's not a lot different than kindergarten and we've all heard about the saying, Everything I need to know about life I learned in Kindergarten. So, here begins the second phase in life; College.
Prayer requests for Addlea
Continue her great study habits
Find and grow in a great church home
Not get homesick for her brother and sister!!!
Find someone who can get her a ride to Aaron and Kristin's in Peoria

Prayer requests for Mom and Family
Not have too much fun without her
Try to listen to Tyler and Baihley as they have begun talking almost non-stop
Keep in contact with Addlea just enough- not call too much but not let too many days go by
Trust God to keep her totally protected
Enjoy watching her grow into a young women

Barnyard Roll Call

If you've never been to the State Fair you're missing out on some real fun. If you need to lose sleep, lose weight, get totally exhausted and climb tons of steps, it's the place to be. I spent the past few days and it was fun; it really was but it was totally a learning experience.
So I'm tired. I have been on the road for several days taking in the Presidential lunchean at Parent Oreintation in Chicago. I have had to be gone alot and sleeping in my own bed has been very rare in the month of August. So, I find myself sleeping in a very large dorm room with 300 others, mostly teenagers. It's late. The fireworks over the grandstand have concluded and the speaker has told us that it will be lights out and quiet. "Wonderful" I thought. "Quiet, peace and sleep". About the time the lights went out the giggles began. I remember those days of being a kid. Then I heard it. A high pitched girls voice yelled, "Barnyard Rollcall". Within seconds you heard the most hysterical sounds from across this huge room. Every sound imaginable from mooing, the neighs, to barking, to the even funnier, "Stop it; we're trying to sleep." Even though I was tired, it was quite funny. It shook up the routine. Sometimes I like to shake up the routine. Wouldn't it be quite funny if in the middle of a serious presentation someone shouted, "Barnyard rollcall", or better yet in the middle of a sporting event the cheerleaders would holler it out! Go ahead; I dare you!!!!!!!!

Giving Wings to Fly

Well she's gone. Saturday we, a friend and I, drove Addlea to Illinois to begin her college experience. It was much different than I thought and everyone said how emotional I would be. Sorry- it didn't work out that way. I watched her bloom like the morning flowers do when the sun shines on them. I watched this little girl who had to be held down by the kindergarten teacher and the secretary so I could get out of the school become this incredible greeter, talker, smiler and open and embrace her new life. It was definately a moment that I will treasure as I watched her let God totally open her eyes to where He had placed her and for both of us to realize that this was exactly where God wanted her. She's at a retreat for Emerging Leadership this week and then Friday Jim and I go back down to Chicago to enjoy Parent Orientation. I don't have to worry about where she's at; Chicago is beyond my comfort zone, because she is where God wants her. I don't have to worry that she'll fall because I gave her wings to fly. She will fly. Perhaps a different flight pattern than I might have taken. Perhaps with different friends than I envision but when a bird takes to the wing, it goes where the winds blow it. It only needs to let God direct the wind currents.

Special Touch Music

Welcome to Special Touch Music's blog site. I will be sharing thoughts and moments similar to the devotions I send out and books that come from them. Enjoy the moments of "ahaha's" I might have and the times when God says something to me that you might be needing also. God bless your day and may you smile from the heart.