The rules are:
1. The rules of the game get posted at the beginning.
2. Each player answers the questions about himself or herself.
3. At the end of the post, the player then tags five people and posts their names, then goes to their blogs and leaves them a comment, letting them know they’ve been tagged and asking them to read your blog.

Ten years ago, I was . . .

Ten years younger. Nearing my fourth year serving at Snow Hill Baptist Church. Married 15 years. Entering a long period of questioning former assumptions. Wished I had known then what I know now.

5 Things on Today’s “To Do” List

1. Create a couple of CD’s with video clips we will use with our students at camp in a few weeks.
2. Pick up food at the Regional Food Bank with Nathan.
3. Write a letter of encouragement to my friend Mark as he and a group set out to plant a new church.
4. Turn a T-Shirt design in for our camp shirts.
5. Read regarding the Lectionary Texts for this coming Sunday.

3 Bad Habits:

1. Staying up too late - and at my age.
2. Taking on too many projects at the same time.
3. Not saying, “No” often enough.

5 Places I’ve Lived:

1. Oklahoma City, OK
2. Dallas, TX
3. Gould, OK
4. Milford, TX
5. Tuttle, OK

5 Jobs I’ve Held:

1. Pull and Clean Tech for Sears

2. Intramural Director

3. Pool Cleaner

4. Associate Pastor/Youth Minister

5. Pastor

Tag, you’re it (if you want, of course, and haven’t already been tagged!)

David, Paul, Marty, Kris Anne, Emily

We celebrated our 25th wedding anniversary this past March. I wrote earlier of my latent romantic streak coming to life. Beginning in January and so far every 18th I have given a gift and dubbed 2008 “Anniversary Year.” Yes, that is the sound of me grunting while patting myself on the back. I will say, I did win some brownie points and surprised not just my wife, but also our two daughters. They have been complicit with me plotting the next gift. They like this sort of thing.

May comes and with it a surprise for me. Little did I know, that according to her, Patty had been planning “Birthday Month.” For the past eight days I have found gifts of all kinds either in my office or at home. Some of the gifts - a framed piece of artwork from one of our trips to Colorado, a six-person “Wa Hoo” game board, a novel with a missing Van Gogh as the storyline, a beanie baby baboon (Do not ask me to explain that one!), a decorative piece of glassware for my office desk, a pair of hand-made chalices, and a pair of rubber boots! Yes, with age comes the fact I am missing one gift. Oh the memory where is it going?

Each of these gifts mean something in their own right. But, despite her telling me not to expect something everyday, it has been just that, every day.

Sometimes people think they know my wife. Most of the time they only know a bit of who she is. There have been times in our married life she would do something thoughtful for another person without their knowledge and often mine. She gives in to the “gut” feeling someone could use some flowers, a call, a hug, any number of things she is ready to give. For some she does not fit the traditional mold of a “pastor’s wife.” That would be because she is not first a pastor’s wife. She is first my best friend. From there she wears too many hats for me to name. One common thread that runs through them all - thoughtful.

Stay tuned, I just may let you know what the other 23 gifts are.

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