Broken but Useable

Sorry for the HIATUS but I'm back

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Sick Family....Blah

I feel terrible that I launch this new blog and it gets pumped up all over the place and then there is no new posting going on for a couple days.  Sorry folks, I have been slammed with travel and meetings not to mention I now have a cold.  Melanie has tonsillitis and a sinus cold, Julia has a cold, Emma is running a fever, but the baby is doing great.  Needless to say the time I have had to think though what to post has been pretty finite, please hang tight......I really need to figure out how to use that autopost feature where you write in advance and set a timer to post at certain times.

Oh yeah, did I mention that we are supposed to leave tomorrow for two weeks at the cottage, with the exception of me heading back next thursday and friday to watch the Willow Creek Leadership Summit?.  I hope we all get better quickly.

Rest assure, new posts are coming as soon as I feel a bit better.....thanks for understanding.

Check this post out from my buddy Lon Wong (don't ask him about his name rhyming, he's a bit sensitive), he has a stellar blog called Solar Crash "where heaven and earth collide" and stellar daughter named Stellar.

"Everyone Loves Marineland"....well sort of

Thursday this week my Uncle with his wife and 4 year old daughter came down to our place from Sudbury. We all packed up and headed down to Niagara Falls to visit www.marineland.ca and of course, the falls. Normally these sort of places I avoid like the plague, it's not that I hate theme parks, it's just that I hate crowds (specifically waiting in lines) and sometimes I just don't like people.....is that weird considering that I have a "Pastoral" heart and love meeting people and networking?
Anyways... we got there and had a picnic before going in to the park, the weather brought us off and on showers which pleased me because there was a greater chance that people might not have decided to show up and therefore lesser lineups for Mr Impatient here.
That's exactly what happened, I really enjoyed myself, the kids were great, company was great. It was throughly a great day. However, I had two things happen that caused me to reflect for a couple days after returning home.

The first happened halfway through the day while we as a group were walking to check out the killer whale show. I was pushing the infant stroller and the rest of my clan were beside me and right behind me, when I started to hear a rather obnoxious voice behind me yelling (apparently the person on the other end of this cell phone call is deaf). This 17-18ish youngman and his two person posse proceeding to walk by us, as he was passing us, his conversation turned to some rather colorful language including the infamous F-Bomb drop. As soon as I heard this in the presence of my children my blood began to boil and I had to say something. So after screaming at him trying to break into his 100 decibel conversation I got his attention and just said "Dude C'mon" while motioning at the kids. He knew what he did wrong and said sorry but didn't stop, just kept yelling in his phone.

The second occurrence happened as we were leaving the park, three young maintenance members of Marineland were playing the rock game (traditionally a game played by males in their youth, whereas rocks and other projectiles are thrown into your friends genital area).
These guys were hitting each other with brooms instead of throwing rocks, one of the young lads got really Nailed and went down like a tonne of bricks. First words out of his mouth....well...lets say that mother was in there and another F-Bomb was dropped. My blood boiled again and verbally went after him, to which I didn't get a sorry, just a "yeah" and he and his buddies keep walking (Marineland is getting a letter).

In my youth I was know to have a "slight temper", growing up playing hockey I had a "slight temper". I have been able to get this under control and is no longer an issue for me....or I thought......the moment these guys were cussing in front on my children I was ready to go for their jugulars. Something inside of me snapped and my heartrate increased, my bloodpressure went up, I started to get the twitching eyelid and I was ready to pounce.
I don't know.... is it just me, but are there times you need to let your kids learn certain things on their own? and other times that you need to protect them?

What caused me to ponder and reflect on this over the past few days, is how God looks at us and protects us. I was picturing my Father God pushing me around in a stroller (big stroller and soother) and all of a sudden Satan, or a situation came up that I didn't need to be part of yet in my fragile life and God lashes out and puts up His fists and says "not on my watch".

Any thoughts on this?

Coincedence, I dunno.....Anger Management was on TV the other night.

Whoop there it is.....Finally!!!!!!!

Well it looks like I have finally done it. I step into a new era. I was actually hoping to launch this blog back on June 2nd to commemorate my 14 year anniversary since giving my life to Christ. However, between kids, meetings, planning for our next steps as a family, expecting our third child (I guess it doesn't take much for me to do with this), and trying to figure out how to use this Typepad thing I couldn't pull it off in time. I have been blogging for awhile at another place to which some of you frequented but this is a new leaf. Journaling has been a tough thing for me over the years, I would write for a bit then turn it off, then write for a bit, then forget about it. Then I'd feel guilty and have to go buy a new journal and start over cause I'd failed the previous time and feel guilty about it. Fresh Starts isn't that what it's all about?.....sorry digressing.....anyways, I have been journaling and I think. Thinking and Dreaming are two things that I do well and quite frequently, so to me Journaling+Thinking+Dreaming=Blogging. It seems natural, so here I am. Thanks for joining me on this journey of life, to hear my heart. I'm not a great person, I am a child of God and he has committed to me and I have submitted to him to attempt to become the man of God He wants to develop me into.

So, what to expect for my blog.....not a whole heck of a lot to be truthful. I like ranting and rambling, I like sharing random thoughts that flow through my melon, I LOVE networking, and I really like bbq, nothing like a bbq on the deck with a nice co.......sorry digressing again. Thanks for joining me and being a part of this crazy God given journey we are all on.