"My Struggles are About Him" by Max Lucado

What about your struggles? Is there any chance, any possibility, that you have been selected to struggle for God's glory? Have you "been granted for Christ's sake, not only to believe in Him, but also to suffer for His sake" (Philippians 1:29)? Here is a clue. Do your prayers seem to be unanswered? What you request and what you receive aren't matching up? Don't think God is not listening. Indeed he is. He may have higher plans.

Here is another. Are people strengthened by your struggles? A friend of mine can answer yes. His cancer was consuming more than his body; it was eating away at his faith. Unanswered petitions perplexed him. Well-meaning Christians confused him. "If you have faith," they said, "you will be healed." No healing came. Just more chemo, nausea, and questions. He assumed the fault was a small faith. I suggested another answer. "It's not about you," I told him. "Your hospital room is a showcase for your Maker. Your faith in the face of suffering cranks up the volume of God's song."

Oh, that you could have seen the relief on his face. To know that he hadn't failed God and God hadn't failed him--this made all the difference. Seeing his sickness in the scope of God's sovereign plan gave his condition a sense of dignity. He accepted his cancer as an assignment from heaven: a missionary to the cancer ward.
A week later I saw him again. "I reflected God," he said, smiling through a thin face, "to the nurse, the doctors, my friends. Who knows who needed to see God, but I did my best to make him seen." Bingo. His cancer paraded the power of Jesus down the Main Street of his world. God will use whatever he wants to display his glory. Heavens and stars. History and nations. People and problems. Rather than begrudge your problem, explore it. Ponder it. And most of all, use it. Use it to the glory of God. Through your problems and mine, may God be seen.

Extreme Home Makeover came to a town nearby and since we love the show we went to check it out. The house is beautiful and was for an officer who was paralyzed in the line of duty a few years ago. We didn't know it was the day of the reveal but we couldn't wait another 4 hours in 104 degree heat. I love seeing community coming together! Watch the episode on September 27th, the Season Premiere.




Yes ladies, that is Ty in the middle :)


G's fohawk


Check out Graydon's new ride

Family Vacation to Las Cruces

This is a beautiful little Spanish Church in Old Mesilla NM...another favorite spot of ours.


Organ Mountains


This video was taken back home after our trip.

Time with the Stansell family

These two pictures of our family were taken by our good friends the Stansells, owners of Vision Yard Studios in Phoenix, Az. If you've never seen their work you have to check them out! Just click on their names for a link to their site. Thank you guys again for your awesome work!




Shauna & Sabrina


Jeremy & Tim with the boys.

A wonderful friend of ours, Joanne...thanks again for opening your home and heart to us. We love you!



She had a slide for Graydon to play on and he LOVED it!

Graydon eating an apple by the slide he was going down all week long


We surprised Frankie with a visit, a dear friend of ours from the former church who has been very generous to our family through the years.


A New Mexico storm is brewing, it actually got so windy it knocked Graydon down right when this picture was taken.


The Dixons with their granddaughter Sophee. Great friends of mine from the church I used to Pastor in Las Cruces.

White Sands

Mrs. Thomson, she and her family were very gracious to Sabrina when she was at New Mexico State University.


If you have ever been to White Sands outside of Las Cruces, you know how beautiful it is with over 3 square miles of pure white sand. One of the world's great natural wonders God has created for us to enjoy.






G climbing up a sand dune

Pa, Ma, and little bit at the Farm and Ranch Museum


8 Seconds


Historic Bridge, and Graydon with a nice shiner after a spill on it


The man of the house, kind of


Not too many places where you can drive 80mph legally, except in West Texas. Hopefully you won't have to stop for gas or a bathroom break, because it could be awhile.

My High School football buddies should know this school. Permian High School in Odessa Texas. Where the Movie "Friday Night Lights" was based off of. We drove by the school and the stadium, which was huge.


Visited Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship and got a chance to meet Dr. Tony Evans who I grew up listening to on the radio with my dad.