Category Archives: Friends

Can’t Wait

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I’ve heard great things about their Sunday brunch, and in about 9 hours I’ll be experiencing it first hand.  Maybe I’ll sneak in a run before brunch… maybe. Do I have to mention how much I love food?

Went and saw my buddy Corey and his band play in Allen last night — dude, Mustang Sally is still probably my fav.

*EDIT* — I did get in a run this morning and it was wonderful – now off to brunch!

**EDIT AGAIN ** — It was definitely worth it – best brunch I’ve ever had!

Prayer Request

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Will you pray with me?  You can always pray FOR me too if you’d like, but specifically will you pray for a friend of mine?

I’d LOVE to tell you great, detailed and long stories about my buddy Romack (Justin Romack… well actually Timothy Justin Romack, but we just call him Justin, or Romack, or little drummer boy…) but we’ll save those for another time.  The short version is, Romack is coming up to Dallas tomorrow for another eye surgery.  He has a partially detached retina (and a number of other eye related issues which you can find out from his wife’s blog post) and this surgery is risky, or to quote Angela: “Well, his doctor said that this upcoming surgery is very heroic because there is a large possibility that it won’t work. That means that there is a large possibility that Justin will never see again.”

Justin simply amazes me.  He understands that no matter the outcome, God is completely sovereign and in control which just testifies of his faith not in a God that “gives us good things” and “wants to see us happy”, but in a God whose love and mercy and grace surpasses our ability to understand it.

As you read this, will you pray:

that God’s name will be glorified
that He would restore Justin’s sight
that He would continue to strengthen Justin and Angela’s marriage
that He would work through the hands of the doctors and surgeons
that He would remove any anxiety from Justin before his surgery
that we, the Body of Christ, will rejoice in the fact that God is faithful and trustworthy, and that He is good.

Feel free to pray your own prayers too ;-)

Justin’s surgery is at 10:30am tomorrow morning (Central Daylight Time, what would that make it in NZ — come on my international readers, now is your chance to show off your mad time converting skillz).  If you read this after the fact, pray anyway!  Pray for a speedy recovery.

Thank you friends.  You’re the best!  If you’d like, you can even visit their blogs and send them some love via comments!

Nostalgia

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I found my original 7 digit ICQ number from high school (5518461). Did any of you have an ICQ account or am I the only nerd? After I found it I decided to download ICQ but none of my contacts were preserved. That led me to download AIM (Screen name: Blasian2k in case you were wondering) and logging into it I saw that ALL of my contacts were preserved, but nobody was on-line. Reading the screen names of my friends from high school brought back a lot of memories and led me to the gem of an e-mail which is partially listed below.

I was digging around in my student E-mail account from SFA and thought it would be fun to check and see if I could find anything interesting and I found a draft version of an e-mail I had written my first semester in college (Aug 2000) to my friends back in Killeen. For your amusement, an exert from an E-mail entitled “Howdy”.

“Hey guys, well, i made it. I’m in college, and college life is waaaayy different. Today i ate lunch at like 10:30 just for the hell of it, so that was pretty cool. Well since i dont have a computer in my room yet, i’m at the library and using my school email (the internet is down in the library, so i cant use my hotmail account just yet. Feel free to add this addy to your address book or whatever. Man! Talk about being a nobody!! In high school i woulda had a cool car, and be a top dog in ROTC, but here no body cares! I guess that’s cool, in a way, but it’s just a big drop! Yesterday I went to the Wesley Center (it’s a Methodist Student Orgaization) for some free food and to meet some new people. Its wierd, cuz i dont know anybody, but everybody know’s me (as Mike’s little brother). Last night we went out to see a movie (i got dragged to a chick flick, Center Stage) and got back around 11:30…”

Apparently e-mail didn’t have spell check back then… In my defense, this was before I completed freshman English. Actually I think this was my second or third day at SFA (judging from the free meal at Wesley which should have been on a Wednesday). I laughed out loud when I read this and then was immediately transported back in time to freshman year; I wouldn’t want to re-live it but I would LOVE to re-play it (maybe God has it on Tivo). What a wild 7 years it has been.