What Am I Doing?

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What have I been doing lately?
1. 1st time ice skating (I tell you, these Coloradians, they love their hockey!)
2. My new stage, Easter look called "Radiance" stars, stars, stars
3. Easter egg hunt (nice sunny day, dry)
4. Good Friday (Surrender Room)

Have a great day,

Into the future,

davidT

If This World Could Only Change

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If you would never leave me
If these chains would not pertain
To this fragile mind, to the fear inside my head

Then my life would be so great
But share with you again and then
I would become the man you want
You want me right?

Don’t leave me, don’t leave me
You’ve never left
You know I can’t go on without you
I can’t make it without you
Don’t leave me
In this place
Don’t leave this man
In this lonely place

If I would only stay right here
And not go back to that place
Of fear and worry, of anxious not's
Not strong enough, not sure enough, not anyone

To see the canyon below
This crazy thought is trying to show
That life is bigger than my little head
My little head, is filled with big thoughts

Have a great day,

Into the future,

davidT

New Things

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Hot AND cold water to brush my teeth
Rolling down the window, honk the horn
Talk to the driver next to me
In the middle of a minor blizzard to ask for directions

Special squeegee for snow
Frozen driveway
It takes longer to get in and out

We’re tired by 7pm
Working hard to think about everything
We don’t want to take our coats and hats off
It takes too long to put them on!

How do we get to church?
64th doesn’t go through to Wadsworth
70 Saturday, 40 Sunday and snow

Yes but…

Fun to play in the snow for children
Bike ride in cul-de-sac on a sunny day
New house is amazing
Terry’s gift of grace

Gary and Cindy’s kindness
Canela said, very organized house!
Canela – I’m an artist, I like to read and I play the piano
Did my first CO snow angel
Snow is so quiet and beautiful
Mountains seem blue and white

Have a great day,

Into the future,

davidT

It's Not Going to Fall Apart

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The story goes on
Just before it starts
And already I’m thinking it can’t be
When it appears to be

It’s so easy to lose your sight
When there’s a log in your mind
What I long to see is right in front of me
But all I hear is what the voices tells me at night

It’s going to fall apart
It’s never going to last
Ignore it all, forget it all
It’s going to fall apart

I fight to stay awake
To the dreams I have received
My life is beginning again
Anything can happen, anything can happen

It's not going to fall apart
This time it'll be different
It's not going to fall apart
The house of cards is built on strength

Have a great day,

Into the future,

davidT

Down the Street

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Down the street there is a family, they have three children. Our little boy rode bikes together with them this morning (nice sunny day) and so I joined in on my bike as well. Not a family I would normally hang out with, but trying to break through my stereotypes.

Things that are different here:

1. Colorado Tan (store down the street)...is there such a thing as a Colorado Tan?
2. Cold all day long (25F). Yes, it's also sunny and we like that, but I'm getting tired of putting jackets on/off/on/off/on/off. I'm thinking of just sleeping in my jacket tonight.
3. Churches everywhere. Wow, I counted about 20 from school to home today. Some even meet inside other churches. My friend told me that "even the snow is Christian in Colorado", maybe he's right.
4. Making a difference. There are plenty of people here that have no faith, no sense of God. I met many of them at the YMCA this morning while working out, at the Juice Stop, at Big 5, children's school, at Office Max. Both Rachelle and I have had many opps to talk about God and serve people.

One example was Rosa at the children's school EL Foster, a bilingual inner city school. She spoke no English and was trying to register her boy in preK. Rachelle busted our here Spanish skills to Rosa's huge surprise and helped her out, we hung out in the parking lot for 10-15mns. Good stuff.

So far, this has been an amazing experience for us all. Lots of grace, lots of redemption, lots of dreams coming true. It's almost too good to be true. I want to blow it all up and self-inflict pain.

Today a friend told me, "don't dump on your own parade, it'll soon dump plenty on you without your help." After being in a blowing up mode for the last few years, it's hard to accept grace. Jonah (Jonah 4) had a hard time with it as well, remember the worm? I am that worm, just want to eat a good thing away and destroy it instead of enjoying it.

Better go and just enjoy this beautiful day.

Have a great day,

Into the future,

davidT