Kenny's Blog

And then TIVO paid off…

There are three things that have no room for compromise in my life.

1. A personal relationship with Jesus Christ. That is so much deeper than I will ever be able to convey. If you do not have that relationship and continue to reject it; I pray you will consider the truth now.
2. Family first. Period. No exceptions. Not work. Not busyness. Not friends.
3. Racism is unacceptable in any form. I am a 41 year old white guy. I do not comprehend racism. I do not tolerate it in any form near me. My kids see no color or ethnicity. They see what God made. That is the way it is. That is truth. That is how God made us. To seek Him and love thy neighbor. Period. No room for racism. None.

…….I guess that’s what a good episode of Friday Night Lights will do.

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Is it only when the caffeine kicks in?

I seem to dream big when it comes to keeping an insightful blog. But, alas life consumes me and I let the blog die. Maybe not this time.

Maybe it has to do with reading to many books at one time. Four kids. Keeping the fire burning in the marriage. Never getting what I want to get done at work and bringing too much home.

Maybe it’s that I seek more meaningless outlets when I am tired. TIVO, magazines, zoning out on the computer.

It’s all good though. Christ highlights my life and that is the passion that lights my fire. I seek to convey the beauty He is in my life to others.

Is He beautiful in your life?

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My dad and I attended a funeral today. It was a celebration of life. The deceased was a father of some friends I grew up with. Their yard was that yard everyone hung out in. can you relate to that? I don't know if you can. I don't know if it's the same anymore.

I thought if I died today there would not be a whole lot of neighbors there. My kid's friends live in different neighborhoods. Friends they befriended in school, sports, and church.

I loved Mr. Edwards' (the deceased) yard. I used to jump through their pine trees to make the Ahmad Rashad-like catch. Mr. Edwards would stretch the field and in the end zone were three pine trees I used to run interference between myself and the defender. I loved jumping through those trees for the big catch. I have driven all my kids through that old neighborhood where the old trees are 20 plus feet tall now. It was sweet affirmation today when one of the old neighborhood boys was there saying ' remember when you jumped over that pine tree for that catch". Of course I remembered, but I wasn't sure anyone else did.

The neighborhood showed up today. People I haven't seen in twenty years. The Leach's, Burget's, Patch's, Marable's, Breakey's, Bednarski's, Allen's; all of us reminiscing about that yard, that neighborhood, that era. I find myself wanting to be more intentional at trying to provide that same atmosphere in my neighborhood for my kids.

I found it incredibly touching when Mr. Edward’s youngest daughter told of her being there at her dad's cremation. just as we are all dust and God created us from it and breathed life into us, here after cremation was what was left of her dad. Dust. The tooth fillings and rod in his leg were there. it was as if God took Dave’s spirit and left the human stuff behind. He no longer needs fillings or rods in his leg. He lives healed in heaven with Jesus Christ, God Almighty.

I need to drive by that house again. see those trees. tell my kids how I jumped through them and over them. Again. Wait! Miles might not have heard that story so it ain't old news to him.

It is nice to celebrate life at a funeral when it involves Jesus, football, and the old neighborhood.

Please pray for Mrs. Edwards she needs you calling on our Father to embrace and comfort her right now.

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what am i doing? i do not know. want something like typepad with no ads. we'll see how this goes.

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