As March Closes

This year is flying by. Where has January, February, and March gone? What? April is here already. But that's the way life goes, speeding past us like a bullet train while we stand at the station and watch. That gets me thinking about the vastness of eternity. Eternity is going to be a long time. I'm not sure if we'll keep track of days and years anymore, or even time. It won't even matter. Right now while we're watching the bullet train of time fly by we're also speeding towards an inevitable ending. But once eternity dawns on us that's over. Of course eternity could be forever wonderful living in the kingdom of our Lord Jesus or it could be beyond words separated from Him forever. Time won't matter anymore. We'll just be - forever. One place or another.
I'm not sure what got me writing about this, it's just on my mind. I'm so grateful, thankful, speechless that the wonderful love of Jesus saved me, forgave me, restored me. I want others to know that same love, I want you to know that same love if you don't already. The love of an almighty God, the creator of all, who knows you and calls you His own.
So April approaches: springtime, flowers, blue skies, warmer weather. Don't waste too much time worrying about the bullet train passing. Jump on, live every day so it matters. Live with purpose because our time here is short and eternity is long and once we're there we can't change what we did while we were here. Live well, live for Jesus.

Maryland

The whirlwind has settled down. Jenny and I took a fast, busy, trip back to my home town of Cumberland for the weekend. Some highlights: a red-eye flight with a stop in Vegas (played $2 in the slots, lost $2 in the slots), riding a tractor and chasing cows, jumping in a cold canal to grab some worm/snake/parasite thing, a concert, Cracker Barrel, and the worst movie of all time (The Day the Earth Stood Still). It's always interesting going home and seeing how some things change and some things stay the same. The farm looks the same. Same barn almost falling over. Same house I grew up in. Same small town. Saw some friends from back in the day, but we've all grown up. It's fun remembering the good times, but life has separated a lot of us, and a lot has happened since then. But seeing them brought back the last few years of high school, youth group, and those last few moments before adult hood. It was good to come back to California. It was good to ride up the PCH past Neptune's Net and see the moonlight on the Pacific. It felt good to step back into our apartment, to lie in our bed. It's interesting how life and people change, it feels like you stay the same and everything else revolves and changes, but that's how it is for everyone. To each individual, they are stationary and everything else moves.

Leaving on a jet plane

Jenny and I are leaving this evening for Maryland, on a jet plane. We have a layover in Las Vegas, so maybe I'll get lucky with the slots and come back much wealthier. 3 days from now we'll be on another jet plane coming back home.

Been a long time coming

So I've decided to re-vamp the look of the blog. I know, I know, I haven't written in like 3 months. And I'm sure everyone has been anxiously holding their breath waiting for the next post. I don't want to be one of those people who start a blog and then never write anything. I like to write, I enjoy writing, it's nice to share stories and life with those of you who choose to actually read this blog. So I'm going to try to be diligent and write more often.
Enough of that stuff.
It's March already. The first seven months of marriage have flown by. Jenny and I are heading to Maryland this coming week. Just a 3 day trip. A quick lay-over in Vegas, maybe we'll win big.
Just a quick mention of the Beta clan. We have 7 at the moment, Sirius Black, Yao, Gypsy Tears, Messiah, Bruin, Beautiful, and Baby S, but tomorrow morning we'll be adding a new member to the clan... Two years ago Jenny and I went to France with some friends and we're having a reunion tomorrow so we're going to go in search of a red, blue, whitish Beta in honor of the French flag. He's already named - Francoise.
A few weeks ago we looked into breeding Beta's. Thought it might be fun, and it would be, but unfortunately it could produce up to 500 babies who all have to be kept individually and that's just not going to happen, so that dream went up in smoke for now.
Enough of the Beta talk.
Please keep checking beck, I'm going to try to be faithful, and you can post remarks to keep me in check!