Another great night

Another good veritas. 17 people here tonight including myself. It was very encouraging. God truly knows what my soul needed. It was just amazing to see him working and to see the new people from last week be more comfortable to speak and the new people tonight feel free to speak their minds. I really thought that tonight went well and i was encouraged and i learned and i appreciate all the comments and other things that people brought to the table it was a great eveing. If you came let me know what you think while you are discussing walmart. Comments good and bad are welcome. But be gentle im a crier. But thank you all for a great night and thank you Lord for putting us all in your presence.

Saving the world one purchase at a time

Thanks to a tangent at bible study tonight i have been asked to post a discussion on among other things discount stores and the ethical issues present when purchasing from these stores or just buying products made in third world companies. The problem as i see it is a very complicated issue. By buying at walmart or target or other cost savers are we being immoral. We as Christians have a duty to help the world and to help "orphans and widows in their distress" James 1:27. The problem comes into play in the circular way of economics though walmart provides cheap purchases for the under privledged does thus increasing their standard of living does it do more damage by paying them 5.15 and hour and not letting them move up the economic ladder. Or by eliminating more jobs in a community than it creates does that help the poor in the long run. Or does the fact that the money goes to the corporate head quarters in arkansas and not the local community like a mom and pop shop in the long run effect the economics of the community as a whole. Or does not buying at these stores or these products does that keep the poor third world kid from making any money. Is it worse for us to boycott and deprive them of any income or to continue to buy and thus put them in horible conditions to work. many questions and im sure you all have many answers. let me know what you think. Me personally i believe that the issue is very complex. I believe that we as a nation should do our best to "convince" discounters to pay fare wages to their works and not necessarily on an american pay scale also i would argue walmart should unionize (as much as i feel the union is outdated in most instances) or at least have the morals to pay competative wages. Would it be so bad to pay a 1.25 for our candy bars so the people working there could have insurance i think not. But its a complicated issue of which i am excited to dialoge with you all about. Just to let you know i am antiwalmart. But to be honest for those of us that dont depend on walmart as our source of income it is very good for us in the economic sense. WHat about morally?

Let the world wide web know

Less than a year

As of 4 days ago my almost 2 year engagement finally reach the one year mark. Now i can say that i get married in less than a year. To all of you who have those whirl wind romances date for a week, engaged for a week, married. YOU STINK. I am glad though i have had a long engagement almost 2 years is not ideal but i have gotten to know my fiancee so much better through this extra time. We have really taken off the blinders of love and i feel we are much better prepared for married life than we would have been otherwise. I know she would argue with me about the length but i think that she would agree that to fast does not afford you some of the opportunities we have had to grow together. Not to mention all the time she gets to spend finding bargins for the wedding and saving money. I am just glad it is under a year away and that we had a longer engagement to get to know one another so much better. It has had it struggles and im sure more will come in the next 11+ months but the rewards far out match. I just am hopefully that the next 11+ months will go as fast as the first 10. Well here is to another great 11 months and to all you nonengaged couples. Enjoy the engagement but dont be crazy and go 2 years. But 1 year and 9 months is cool lol.

Beans and Cornbread

Tonight we had dinner at my place I made beans and greg made cornbread. It was a good evening the beans and the cornbread turned out great. A few of our friends came to join us and even some unexpected freinds showed up. It was nice to just hang out and enjoy good food and good company. There is something about eating a meal together that just brings you closer to people. I know that from last summer and i am relearning that lesson once again. I hope that more people get to learn how this feels and that more people would come to join us at our dinners if they are able. I thank God that he has give me and the house i live in the blessings and the areana to bless others. The Lord truly is good and all good and perfect gifts come from him. Even beans and cornbread.

I've missed that

Today was the first summer study of veritas. And praise God i really felt him working in me tonight and i think all of us learned something and prayerfully took something away from this evenings discussion. It was good to just work and to teach and to feel Christ using me. It really has been a while and it was such a refreshment and joy. We had some really good stuff new faces and good discussion on James 1:1-18. And to finish the night we took some of our trials and wrote them down and how God has or is delievering us to them then we offered them to God and burnt them as a symbol of God refining us through fire. We had to burn the paper in the sink, since mother nature would not let us use the chiminea. All in all it was very refreshing night for me. The conversation afterward was also very enjoyable. I got to chat with a married couple and got to talk about my future wife and just the funny thing we do mainly talking about cooking and chiken fingers it was very fun and just plain cool. I am very excited about this summer. I cant wait for things to just continue and i truly pray that the community would GROW and GROW and our closeness would GROW and GROW. Our first dinner is thursday beans and cornbread hoping for a great turn out and just time for us all to communicate and to get closer to one another and Jesus. Im truly excited for my growth and the growth of the Group PRAISE GOD for such an amazing night. Just wish my fiancee was here to enjoy it with me and all of my friends that are away from us. I miss you all

Summer Study

Here we are again. Another summer. Billy is in Floridia and I am here leading WVU Bible Studies. This year I believe is going to be a great year. I really feel that this summer is going to play a major part in a large movement this fall for H2o the campus church and also all the studies involved with WVU Bible studies. All of those little few who read this blog i would appreciate your prayers on behalf of the study, myself, and our campus. I have started something new this summer as a way of focusing myself and my heart to lead a bible study that i believe has so much potential to not only grow those who come but also me. I have instituted in me at least once weekly this summer strolling the campus and praying for it and those at the study that this fall and at all times they are here would be effective and loving witnesses of Christ. Starting first with me. I have come to the conclusion that no matter how busy i am and how removed from the actual campus i may feel this year i must set the example for the group. Jesus has set the example for me and for all of us and as his servent i intend to be an example also to those in the group and those on campus. Not that any of this is very new in the scheme of things, but i feel i have waisted to much time here focusing on my studies and my own circle and not enough on the greater circle of people. Something i intend to remedy. I again implore my loyal readers to pray for God to move in our study and to open the minds and the hearts of those in whom we come in contact that we may start to influence others and guide and show them the way to Christ. I look forward to keeping you all posted on how this summer is going and all that God is doing here and in me.

44 weeks

44 weeks you ask? Well ask! 44 weeks and i am done with pharmacy school. My first rotation starts this monday at 9 so i guess my last summer as a student is officially over. Man those 2 weeks went fast. Oh well. I am excited though to get started and to get finished. Most of all to get finished. My life has many new changes coming once these 44 weeks are over. 12 days after my graduation and 22 days after my last day of class i get married. In between that time i will be moving and getting ready to start my first real job. Geeze. I guess i will have to start being some what grown up now. But i look forward to all the changes. I am just hoping God will help me keep my sanity through the next 44 weeks. I am also hopeful that i will be able to spend some quality time with my family and friends these next 44 weeks before i move into an new aspect of my life. It is such an exciting time for me. But at the same time sacry leaving all that i am familiar with to go and see what God has in store for me and my at that point wife (Tara for those who dont know). It is going to be such a cool adventure. I guess in a way you could say im ready and excited to start my rotations tomorrow. Looking forward to finishing one chapter of my life and starting a new one. The nice thing about this one is knowing God will be there from the first pen stroke to the last. Not a bad way to start. Well college me it was fun and enjoy your last 44 weeks.

Blogging a new chore?

I have come to the conclusion i dont have much to say. That being said let me say something. I enjoy this venue of communication, but find that i feel obligated to post something even when i really dont have much to say or i am busy and dont find the time to post. Does anyone else experience this. Just curious. I have also notice that blogging can be psuedoaddictive. The fact that you want to blog and you feel obligated to blog you need to blog. Wierd huh? As much as sometimes i feel that having a blog is dumb and i dont have time for it. Other times i feel the need to get on here and spout of to the entire world though only a limited number of the world read this blog, now but soon who knows. Anyway maybe it is just finals week messing with my already feeble mind. Or maybe its the fact that beth is becoming a Gaundi hippie and gardening in the never ending spring of NH. Who knows. I guess i just need some sleep a couple weeks off from school and a cookie. Anyone have a cookie oreo preferably. Well i guess i should stop now and attempt to salvage any sense of intelligence in this blog although that is was probably gone long ago. Ok bye