Life is Good

Someone is coming to look at our house on Saturday and I pray that they will buy it. I am looking forward to the day that we will have the house sold and Tina can join me here in Charleston. I know that there are so many opportunities here for exploring and making a fun life for ourselves. This is a transitional period for us and I know that it will be a good one. For every valley there is a mountaintop and for every dark night there is a new dawn. Hope comes in the morning according to my friend Mike. I know tha there is a dawn a comin'. So hang in there T and we will be together soon. Things are looking up at work and I am getting new and challenging tasks which, if you know me, get me jazzed. I like a new challenge and love to learn new stuff. I feel like my brain has been jump started and I feel like I have a good future at work. Now BUY MY HOUSE PEOPLE so the personal side can get rolling along too.

Love Ted

I'mmmm Baaaack

Ok so I blogged about how my computer kept putting me through pains and as a point the computer didn't let me post it. The computer decided that it would only post the title HAHAHAHA funny you stinking computer!!!! So I took it to my bestest buddies in Charleston, the IT guys where I work (yea Nathan and Jeremy) And they set me up with the best I can have with what computer I got. Now I need to get some more memory and that will most likely enable me to click on something and have it actually come up while I remember what it is I clicked on!! Anywho, I am back and expressing myself in print again and able to read your thoughts again Tina and Rhonda and Scott (if he ever blogs again) and Tommie. So I won't bore you but will say that it was 80 degrees today and I loved it. Yea God!!!

Love, Ted

Computers AAArrrgggghhhhh!!!!

Here I am in Charleston and my wife is in Ohio dealing with life while I am 3 hours away. It irritates me that I can't just come riding in on my white horse (code for Black Cherry Super Glide) and save the day. I want so much to be her saviour and God keeps reminding me and her that HE IS. He said it thousands of years ago and if I open my big dumb ears I will hear it some day. For now I have to keep learning these lessons. Enough about me, my true prayer and focus lately is on Zach. My son is a good guy with more potential than anyone I know. When he was young people would say that he has too much energy for his own good. I learned in high school that energy has two forms (give me some grace here those of you who are science geeks) Potential energy which is stored and waiting to be released and kinetic energy which is energy in motion. When Zach was young he was pure kinetic energy, nothing short of sleep or a very strong rope stopped him. He is now Potential energy. If and when he figures out that he has a greater purpose he will again be that kinetic energy that sets the world on fire. I know that he can change the world because he is just that smart and has that rare quality of leadership. His mom and I want so desperately for him to see that he is precious and valued in our eyes and the eyes of those who have taken time to get to know him AND in the eyes of God who treasures him above all else. Actually I have two children and they are both very amazing people. Kristina is as sweet as the day is long and she has scads of potential too. I see her picking up her camera some day and capturing images of life that only she can see. God show yourself to my kids as you have showed yourself to me. OK some of my blogs will be goofy and some like this one may be a touch deeper. Bear with me as my wife says I am in process.

Love Ted

Golf is good because it gets me close to nature and God is in nature and .......ok I like to golf so that is just how it is. God is good and allows me a few indulgences. Golf is one of them. I can't tie it all together just to make you all happy. God loves me in spite of my addictions. Golf is a major addiction and it takes me away from my family but (listen family) if they would all learn to golf maybe we could be the first missionaries to Pebble Beach. Anyway, I like golf and Love God. So yesterday i said I would tie it all together but some things just can't be tied together. (Help Danny or John or Blake or Scott, I need to feel good about golfing) Let me tell you the best time I had on the course last year was the SFMC golf outing where we golfed and then ate Steak ON THE GRILL. Two great things that go great together. If you think none of this makes sense look at the name of my blog.

Love Ted

Wow what a BE A UTIFUL DAY!!! I love this weather, it lifts the spirits and makes we wanna kill and grill somethin'. A little Sweaty Teddy Nugent lingo. Really though, don't you just want to light up a grill and smell that smoke and cook over it. I ain't talkin no gas grill (although we should use as much gas as possible to keep me in business) but an old fashioned charcoal grill or even better yet an open fire. Throw some corn in aluminum foil and stick it right in the coals and then roast some fish or chicken over the fire and ....... yumm yumm Oh sorry, I had to stop a minute and compose myself. Eat it up. This is a time of year I love although fall is the best because football season is in full swing but I digress. Let's just all get together and light up some charcoal and get the whole midwest smelling like springtime. God gives us spring to show us through nature that rebirth is possible and He is the author of rebirth. Tomorrow I will try and find a spiritual tie in to golf. (this may take some doing)
Love, Ted

Today is the first day

Weeeeelllllllll I have been rambling for years and now I get to do it in print. So here is the first thought, "why do people go on line to express their deepest thoughts?" I have a theory, wanna hear it? of course you do. I think that this keyboard doesn't look you in the eye like it is listening and secretly it is forming it's next sentence. We know that the keyboard is just going to sit and take all you have to give it without interupting, looking bored or faking that it cares. I am not as jaded as I appear at first. I just know how I am, and figure if you look deep into your soul you will see the same thing in you. It is ok we can change. I have made a concerted effort to listen when other people talk and try not to think of my next retort ........and trust me that is not easy for a smart aleck like me. Also, I have failed miserably maybe once or twice (he says tongue in cheek). I have been married to a wonderful woman for almost 24 years and I have learned the hard way, that you must make eye contact and listen (honestly listen) without thinking of a comeback or a (You guys will understand this) solution to the problem being discussed. People just want to be heard and understood. I know I do... but you may need a serious degree in psychology to understand this noggin. The idea that I am rambling about tonight is just this. Let's try and communicate one on one and face to face and not lay it all out on this flat screen. God says we need each other and I tend to agree with Him......cause he is ALWAYS right. So I see it like this, we can have fun posting , but we need to talk to one another too. BUT I sure do like just Ramblin' Cause "I'm a Ramblin' guy" R A M BLIN Guyyyyyy. OK I am a bit silly. Tina likes me that way.

Ted