A dream for Thomas

its time for a new post. i had a very relaxing christmas with my family. it was kinda cruddy that thomas had to work on both christmas eve and on christmas day, but it was workable. he didn't miss out on much. we just had to change a little bit of our traditional routine.

what am i looking forward to in the new year? Hmm, let see. The typical, i want to exercise more, eat healthier, figure out how to get my kids to eat more veggies. i want to better at cleaning and keeping my house 'guest' ready all the time. i want to find a way to spend more quality time with my husband. We will celebrate our tenth anniversary this July. Maybe finding a way to do date nite more often. I would like to have another baby this year, but we'll see what God has in store. i want to do better at emailing and staying in contact with friends and family that i don't see regularly. i also want this to be the year we are finally out of debt. we've worked hard over the last year and half, and we're almost there. Our van will be paid off this year, yeah no more car payments!

what i really want for this coming year, is for Thomas to FINALLY experience his dream. His dream of being in full time ministry. He has know he's been called since he was young. It has been many and many a year that his dream has gone unfulfilled. I have seen my childhood dreams, my marriage and my children. Not, that to thomas those things are not important, because he loves us all dearly. But, something about seeing him day after day trekking off to work towards one more day of an unfulfilled dream. For those who don't know, my husband has this awesome ability to teach. I promise, he knows EVERYTHING!!! he is so close to finishing his theology degree. However, its really hard to go to school at night, when your job mainly consists of working at night. i desire for him to realize fruit in his abilities. If you've ever seen him with youth, those kids adore him. he is not teaching his youth sunday school this year. the opportunity is no longer there. it truly breaks my heart that he has all this talent and love to give to the kids and yet it stays all bottled up inside him with no place to pour it out. A couple of summers ago, he got to fill in for a youth pastor at a small church. We had so much fun! Im telling you people, this guy would make the world's best youth/college pastor. he is a perpetual teenager. he loves his video games, staying out late, going to movies, hanging out with people, playing games... and so much more.

so, all of you out there is blogger world, if you know of or hear of a need, my hubby needs a job where he gets to daily pour into the lives of those who need to know about Christ. Youth who need to be equipped with the tools to lead and know why they believe. In our country where our faith is being squashed and diluted, where are our leaders going to come from? That's a whole different direction that i will leave for thomas to blog about.

will you keep thomas in your prayers? pray for 2009 to be the year that thomas sees the callings and the prophecies spoken over him to be realized and fulfilled.



i know its a hunting picture, but i promise, he will not hunt any kids or teach them to do so without parental approval.