Dear Reader (This is You)

I was quite amused today as I galvanted around my vault department searching the internet, reading emails, reading SOP's, talking, eating... pretty much anything anti-work.

My favorite viewing of the day came from my facebook. As I gazed upon my screen, my glorious facebook title, "Jeremy Potter's Profile", soared above the frivolous text and pictures inferiously lain below. But wait... there's more. In bold, sentence halting parentheses... I held my breath and read the deep impactful words..............................

"(THIS IS YOU)"

STOP IT RIGHT NOW!!!
You mean... I AM THE CHOSEN ONE!?!?!?! THIS PROFILE IS MINE!!!!

I read it again: Jeremy Potter's Profile (This is you)

The picture bearing an oriental, doubled chinned smiles next to a beautiful blonde... the profile labeling every deep, intimate, inspirational "my favorite movies", "favorite quotes", and "job description" entries.... they are all mine!?!?!?!?!?!?!

Well kiss my grits and slap aunt Susan...

Yes, it's true. I have loligagged into the dark temptation and Netherworld of the facebook. I was warned about its addicting power, but I gave no heed. I enjoy it however. I have networked and contacted people whom I have not beheld in years. The random texting on my wall and pictures tagged onto my site make me smile often... one even made me giggle.

In other news:
I bought a used Xbox from my boss today. It was a rather good deal if I could say so myself. I received the unit, 2 controllers, a few games, a headset, and standard componets for $125. Not bad considering a new unit with one controller and one game goes for the retail price of $179. I am quite pleased!
Why such an impulse purchase? Because I want to get good. Good at Halo. Thats right. All this is for the glory of halo. I tire of teens in our youth group gloating delightfully over my digitally dead body 25 times every 15-20 minutes. It has become a passion to become a Halo pro.

God have mercy on my soul.

The church fam has been pretty dispursed over the past month. However, we are so incredibly excited about what God has been doing recently. Over the past month, we have been raising money from current and former church family members alike to pay off the property we have been paying for over the last few years. We are close to pay off, lacking only $4500/ $400 per month. Dale and others have been heading up the fund raising and special contribution operations and have done a magnificent service doing so. After contacting as many as possible, God had moved everyone to contribute a grand total of....

$11,000 dollars!!!!!!!!!!!

UNBLIEVEABLE! God had provided his church in Alvin with almost $7000 more than what we asked for. I was reminded of Jesus feeding the 5000. Not only did God provide what was needed to fill our need, but extra scraps to be collected in the baskets. Money is money, but we are more excited that God answered our prayers with such exuburance and thunder!

We are a blessed people!

How have you been blessed this week? Leave me a note, I wanna know!

Because of the Messiah whom provides,
Potter

Changes...

So I totally dodged the month of November on here. Sorry 'bout that.

It's actually been an incredible month in everyway. The job has been good and I'm loving staying at the Nelson's and worshipping here with the church fam.

God is amazing. I've heard inspirational stories of God's work in the Bible and books written by Christian authors. However, none of that matches the feeling I've experienced while God's hand in my family's life and my own.

For the past 3 years, my parents have struggled through a divorce after 22 years of marriage and 20 years of ministry together. Every since then, Dad's been praying for forgiveness and for reconciliation in his relationship with Mom....
Two weeks ago, Dad was involved in a massive wreck a couple of weeks ago and was close to death. He went around a curve too fast in his rig on a wet road and rolled it on its passenger side and slid for a 100 yards or so. If it weren't for his seatbelt, he would have slipped between the cement and cab. Well, fortunately, no one else was involved in the accident, which was considered his fault since he could have driven more defensively. Now the feds say he can't drive for 3-5 years because of his at-fault accident. Appearantly mom and he had been talking casually for a couple of weeks before the accident anyway. Well, mom was like, the are hundreds of highing paying jobs in New Orleans. If he wanted to, he could stay in the house and get a job to get a new career going
....An answered prayer!

However, just today, I found out that Mom lost her job. Her company was at risk of hostle take over for several months, but Katrina made that more possible. It's going to take another adjustment for me to get use to picture my parents together again, but spirits are high that God will reveal what His plan is real soon. God still amazes me.

Today was a really good day for me because I started teaching the 4-6th graders in the church family. Those kids are so smart and alive! They brought out an enthusiasm I hadn't felt in a long time. We had fun drawing on balloons and reading over Matthew 22:15-22 and talking about the gifts we give to people and to God.

The elementary and middle school kids performed a really good and funny Christmas skit tonight also.

I'm glad to be part of this church family. They make me smile.

Because of the Messiah who loved His own,
Potter