No kidding, and I'm not playing around with these dates... I am sitting down to start writing this blog. I started it a year ago today.

I really have to get all of the incredible things the God has done over and over and over out of my crazy head.

Today, I'm just going to start with the latest events. I will preface the whole situation with this:

Currently, I have just left a job with CNPIntegrations.com. Honestly, it was one of the most incredible job opportunities I was ever blessed to have. It was a very intense project management, production management and web development position. I couldn't say enough about how great it was, and how much experience I got while doing the job. I personally worked myself silly, but that is a whole other blog. :D

So, I just left this job for another great opportunity. I felt unbelievably blessed to be able to change jobs and continue to move forward in an economy like it is. That is the key to this story today really. The fact that in today's economy, almost the highest unemployment rates in the history of the US I am leaving a perfectly good job for another one.

During my transition we have been looking for houses in the Columbus, Ohio region of the US. We currently live in north eastern ohio, so the move wont be drastic, but enough. We are looking to buy our first home and over the past 4 weeks we have been trying to find "Our Home".

::Rewind a little bit::
Over Christmas we were really trying to figure out what was happening with our living situation, since our lease is up in April at our house in North Eastern Ohio. We started looking for homes in the Columbus Area, because we really felt God was leading us there to a great church, www.highpointnaz.org . We went there and actually met some old friends, high school and college style friends. We met new people and some of the old friends had more connections throughout the Columbus Area.

We went on with our lives, and I took an interview with a company down there in Columbus. It was completely out of the blue, and would get me back into the Government arena, so I was definitely up for it.

Things went on, I didn't really hear anything back about this interview. I seemed to think that I totally had the job when I left because it was a great interview and I hoped I would fit it great there.

I also do some consulting work for www.npma-fuelnet.org and the connections I have made through there has really kept moving forward as well. I get a e-mail one morning to basically pick a government job that I wanted and it would be done, but I would have to move to Northern Virginia. No kidding, so we start looking at homes in Fredericksburg, VA. I had a VA Doctors appointment later that day, so I went, and on the way home from Cleveland I got the call from the interview letting me know I was getting an offer. That pretty much sealed the deal for us, that we had bee praying for God to show us where he wanted us to go, and the minute we stop thinking about it, it happens.

So on Friday Feb 13th I received, signed and returned the offer within a half hour. We were really excited, but we needed to move in like 45 days. So, we called up our realtor and Monday we were going through houses. We found one we really loved and the next day put an offer down on it. The Neighborhood was amazing, it has a brand new elementary school in it, a neighborhood pool, its still a new and growing neighborhood, so we had to get in that area.

::Fast Forward:: FOUR WEEKS! and we still havent gotten an accepted offer or anything back. long story short, its a short sale, not a foreclosure, but a short sale. Needless to say, we had to look for other options. We go back into that neighborhood, and look through some of the new listings.. I mean.. its been a month.. so we find these 5 homes we like from the internet and go look. The first one was a brand new build, absolutely beautiful, and 4 bedrooms, and everything you could ask for. We pulled the other offer and put an offer to the builder on this one.

We know God is in it, because we looked at 11 other homes in the area, and these two are in that neighborhood, along with another couple we might offer on if we cant get this one, but this one would be "Our Home" and no one elses!

Jayme and I talked on the way home about how blessed we are, that we really don't deserve the things He gives us, at all. We dont want anything like this to go to our heads, we have to constantly give God the glory for how blessed we are every day!

This brings me to my daily reading..

Proverbs 16:

1 To man belong the plans of the heart,
but from the LORD comes the reply of the tongue.

2 All a man's ways seem innocent to him,
but motives are weighed by the LORD.

3 Commit to the LORD whatever you do,
and your plans will succeed.

4 The LORD works out everything for his own ends—
even the wicked for a day of disaster.

5 The LORD detests all the proud of heart.
Be sure of this: They will not go unpunished.

6 Through love and faithfulness sin is atoned for;
through the fear of the LORD a man avoids evil.

7 When a man's ways are pleasing to the LORD,
he makes even his enemies live at peace with him.

8 Better a little with righteousness
than much gain with injustice.

9 In his heart a man plans his course,
but the LORD determines his steps.

10 The lips of a king speak as an oracle,
and his mouth should not betray justice.

11 Honest scales and balances are from the LORD;
all the weights in the bag are of his making.

12 Kings detest wrongdoing,
for a throne is established through righteousness.

13 Kings take pleasure in honest lips;
they value a man who speaks the truth.

14 A king's wrath is a messenger of death,
but a wise man will appease it.

15 When a king's face brightens, it means life;
his favor is like a rain cloud in spring.

16 How much better to get wisdom than gold,
to choose understanding rather than silver!

17 The highway of the upright avoids evil;
he who guards his way guards his life.

18 Pride goes before destruction,
a haughty spirit before a fall.

19 Better to be lowly in spirit and among the oppressed
than to share plunder with the proud.

20 Whoever gives heed to instruction prospers,
and blessed is he who trusts in the LORD.

21 The wise in heart are called discerning,
and pleasant words promote instruction. [a]

22 Understanding is a fountain of life to those who have it,
but folly brings punishment to fools.

23 A wise man's heart guides his mouth,
and his lips promote instruction. [b]

24 Pleasant words are a honeycomb,
sweet to the soul and healing to the bones.

25 There is a way that seems right to a man,
but in the end it leads to death.

26 The laborer's appetite works for him;
his hunger drives him on.

27 A scoundrel plots evil,
and his speech is like a scorching fire.

28 A perverse man stirs up dissension,
and a gossip separates close friends.

29 A violent man entices his neighbor
and leads him down a path that is not good.

30 He who winks with his eye is plotting perversity;
he who purses his lips is bent on evil.

31 Gray hair is a crown of splendor;
it is attained by a righteous life.

32 Better a patient man than a warrior,
a man who controls his temper than one who takes a city.

33 The lot is cast into the lap,
but its every decision is from the LORD.



Whoa... For real.. Watch your motives, Watch your Tongue, Watch your pride, Listen to Instructions, Be Patient. It goes way beyond that, but you can find what it means to you.. Thats between you and God, what he wants you to get out of that. But I know what he was telling me!

God is good.

I gotta get to tending to the kids this week.. Jayme has a big test, and I am on "Vacation" until I start work next week.

Today is another one of those days, that I am stunned and in awe of our Almighty God.

To start off my name is Jeremy. I grew up in a small town in West Virginia. I moved to Ohio at the age of 15 and lived there until I met my wife at college and then joined the United States Air Force. This was all 6 years ago. Since then we have been through some of the hardest things anyone could ever go through. Along the way, God has blessed us with two incredible children. I will get into them more later.

I had to start this blog, because I have to start writing down and archiving all of the great things that God is doing for me.

This is where we will begin...

Well Here we go, I saw this You Tube video posted and honestly, I have been studying this kind of a lot... and when the youtube video came along I have realized that this IS an issue that God is pressing on our hearts...

On my way to church yesterday, I turned on the radio and listened to The Calvary of Albuquerque's Skip Heitzig as I always do, and this message was on... I was TOTALLY BLOWN AWAY... It might take you to listen to it twice to actually get what he is telling you!!! WHOA!!! but click the TV and watch this broadcast from yesterdays service out here in the ABQ.
Its gonna take a few minutes, maybe 30-40.. But I have also been watching this documentary "Jesus Camp where they are basically "training up the child" starting VERY YOUNG just like our Islamics peers minus the hand grenades and bomb belts... anyways... If you have time, check out both... below... Its going to enlighten your vision, but I cannot be quiet, when I feel that God is pressing it...





<--- Click the TV!!!

What can I say...  I am stalling from the busy work that my school is making me do.  23 days left and I am making my way through a lot of coursework.  I PASSED MY ETHICS CLASS!!! 

I can't really say how much God has incredibly blessed us..  He has lined up two jobs that are very good opportunities.  He has provided a house that we can basically try out before we buy.  An incredible deal we could never pass up!  

I gotta get back to work but we had the lease for our house drawn up today and has been signed and we should know at least by Monday for sure if we will be moving in 1 Apr. 

23 Days until I see my family and QUIT MY JOB!!!!

I can almost give my two weeks notice :)

    Well it's been a week since I wrote anything!  haha  I have been really really busy trying to get school work done, redesign my website with more of anything on it other than a resume.  
    I haven't put this up yet I don't think but God has not ceased to amazed and bless me!  I have been talking about a Logistics job which I thought was the avenue for me, but behind the scenes, I had doubt and my heart didn't really want this job.  Who knows, I still might end up there but my confidence has been stirred because of the phone call I received this past week. 
    When we decided to follow God's will for our lives, I immediately came inside and started looking for web design companies in the Wooster area.  Well I found a company that does it all, they don't just do web design, they do everything I enjoy doing.  They do Tech Support, Build PCs, Networking, they do it all... So I e-mailed the one e-mail that was on the website back in August.  I basically spilled my guts and told them how I would love to see the opportunities that they have to offer.  So Thanksgiving came along and I still hadn't heard anything, I had been exploring my options.  I felt I should send another e-mail.  So I did.  Spilled my guts again, just incase they didn't get my last one.  and by that time my friends had told me to get in touch with him, because we are a lot alike.  So I knew he goes to Wooster Church, I know he is a good guy, and I know its somewhat of a small business.  So, Come February, I still hadn't heard anything.  Things with the Logistics job seemed to be falling into place, so I put the idea of web design away and back up on the shelf, coming to terms that I would go on not doing the one thing that makes me the most happy.  So this past week is when God showed me that it is always going to be in His time... not mine, it is not my will, it is His.  And He will always come through.  I still don't have all the details, so I cannot say that is where I going to work, however, He called and within the first 3 minutes of the conversation he asked me to come take over and oversee the web development past of the business... God is good.   all the time... 


30 Days until I see my family again and see our new future!  

Where do I start?  There always comes a point in just about every situation, every point of view, every period of time, where you have to take a step back and really look at things.  This is coming from a very hard core republican for life.  

First of all, McCain is now focused on the democrats.  He has been for a while but has been distracted by the measly other campaigners.  One thing I see with the republicans is they are still focused on the same ideas for the past 25-30 years.  I have agreed in the past that the big bad government needs to stay out of my life, and let me do the things I want to do with the money I have!  The thing I have seen in the 10 years I have been in the real world is the government says what we can and can't do.  They already take a quarter of our paycheck, and they have gave away more money that we have to other interests around the world.  I believe we could have spent more of that on our healthcare, on our education, on our transportation system, on our research for better, more efficient energy.  When I hear John McCain say he believes in the people and the will and drive within the people of America.  Honestly, this type of thinking has been given the chance.  We have had pretty much 16 years that I can remember of this type of thinking.  In that 16 years health care costs have become unreachable, CEO's having runaway salaries.  In 1980 the average of CEO made 42 times the average pay of the average factory worker.  By 1998, those CEOs had quintupled that amount up to 412 times the average pay of a factory worker.  The top 5 CEOs are getting over 200 Million dollars a year... This is what is wrong with the country, It is true. The rich get richer.  Even Oprah doesn't make over 200 Million Dollars a year.   
  
My point is America has had its chance, and as some of the people on the left have been giving the warning shot that America has been in the same rut, and the government is using the resources elsewhere instead of investing back into the people.  This includes the Clinton times.  1998 was Clinton's sixth year so the democrats cannot escape from this equation.  America want's change.  McCain is as hard as it is for me to say, just one in the same with the rest of the party, IN MY OPINION.  I want change.  I want to see if life can be easier, and if anyone can make it to the american dream anymore, and not just the rich kid's kids that have what they think is the dream.  

I won't even discuss Hillary.  It is a shame and a joke to the entire political process that she is putting herself in harms way.  She is spewing politcal puke all over our media, and it is quite frankly disgusting.

Obama on the other hand is different.  He is different than the other democrats and republicans.  2 years ago, I was sitting in England watching CSPAN or something watching Obama talk about the issues.  He was standing in Congress scolding everyone that was sitting in there about how much of a tragedy it was that they would sit around and discuss some of the craziest topics like gay marriage when they have so many other things that are more pressing for Americans.  Please feel free to go and read most of his speeches.  http://obama.senate.gov/speech/ You have to believe me and go out and do your own research on this man.  YOU HAVE TO DECIDE YOURSELF.  

You cannot go by him being a democrat, or raised muslim, or a black guy... This guy thinks very differently from the Left wing Democrats.  Most Democrats care about getting a democrat into the whitehouse and making government control everything including health care.  

A few quick tips on Obama that go against Democrats.  He has voted No on every bill that sympathizes with abortion, he voted against the war, he votes FOR veterans, he voted no for gay marriage, because he believes in a man and a woman, he votes no for universal health care.  He wants healthcare affordable but not universal, Hillary will penalize you and dock your wages if you don't buy health care.  

All of these issues are HUGE when it comes to a democrat.  That is just a little bit of Obama that I have done research on.  I respect McCain more than any other politician in this country, however, I do not believe he has the vision that Obama encompasses.  

Obama is change, and he recognizes that is will not be easy.  The fact that he has verbalized that is not going to be easy, and that it is a real CHANGE MOVEMENT, that is what it is going to take.  Obama is HOPE, we have to get past the politicians that we have always known and let ourselves be heard.  This is a Democracy... We are supposed to be heard.  We are supposed to protest.  We are supposed to be taken care of.  

Now you are going to have to make the decision whether or not to give him the chance or not.  Is it worth your four years to gamble on the chance of real change?  

Getting back to what I said two years ago watching him on CSPAN in England... I told Jayme to come in and listen, because I couldn't believe it!  I said then, if this guy runs, he will be the next President along with having my vote.  

Lets rename the independant party to the Obamacans, or whatever else.. 

You decide... Go out an do the research and tell somebody what you found...

Ofcourse I gotta start with a golf one...






























More to come when NBC puts it up...