Talby Wedding Interview

Wow! What a weekend. Getting to see all of my friends was such a blast and of course seeing Talby met and exceeded all of my expectations. He did several ridiculous/hilarious things over the weekend that only Talby would do. I will share some of those stories with you later. Yes, Talby provided me with about a month of material in just two short days. But for now, be contented with these up close and personal interview with this interview with GQ Talby.

Wedding Weekend

      Sorry MCN that it has been so long since I last posted. I have today off from work and thus I have some time to catch you all up on my life (because I know you are so interested). Well we just got back from a great wedding weekend where two of my favorite people got married, Andie and Andrew. The whole weekend was a blast.  There was golf, food, cards, video games, dancing, music, and a bunch of stories to go along with.
But the best part of course was the wedding itself. Seeing two people who love Christ and who both know that they were brought together by him was such a joy. Also seeing all of my friends from college was such a blessing. My friends have a strange ability to be both incredibly goofy and spiritually challenging at the same time. It seems like at a moments notice we can go from sharing stories and impersonating our old football coach to expressing what God has been teaching us in our lives. I truly believe that I have some of the best friends in the world. So with that I will leave you with some photos from the weekend.

The Beautiful Bride

Chris  being nice to Jo

Zach and Ahna

The bros in the old Pi Pew in Chapel

Dave being dumb

The bros at Rachels

Anxiety

Worrying has never been something that I have been prone to do. On the contrary, people usually think of me as carefree or careless. My Mother seems to have an endless supply of stories of me forgetting my football equipment, leaving my baseball glove out in the rain, or neglecting to do some important school project. Growing up, anxiety was the least of my concerns. But while I may have paraded this off as virtuous, I am now realizing that I never worried because I never really had responsibility. My parents took care of me in so many ways, that I was left to live a carefree life. But now that I live on my own, have to pay my own bills, have a wife to take care of, and a career to think about, I find myself worrying a little bit more. I am coming to see that as you go through different stages of your life, there seem to be certain sins waiting to entangle you. All this is to say that I have found myself a little anxious about my life and future and God seemed to place this devotion from Charles Spurgeon right in my lap. It was perfect for Lissa and I and we read it together several times because I thought it was so good. Enjoy....

"Cast thy burden upon the Lord, and He shall sustain thee."—Psalm 55:22.

Care, even though exercised upon legitimate objects, if carried to excess, has in it the nature of sin. The precept to avoid anxious care is earnestly inculcated by our Saviour, again and again; it is reiterated by the apostles; and it is one which cannot be neglected without involving transgression: for the very essence of anxious care is the imagining that we are wiser than God, and the thrusting ourselves into His place to do for Him that which He has undertaken to do for us. We attempt to think of that which we fancy He will forget; we labour to take upon ourselves our weary burden, as if He were unable or unwilling to take it for us. Now this disobedience to His plain precept, this unbelief in His Word, this presumption in intruding upon His province, is all sinful. Yet more than this, anxious care often leads to acts of sin. He who cannot calmly leave his affairs in God's hand, but will carry his own burden, is very likely to be tempted to use wrong means to help himself. This sin leads to a forsaking of God as our counsellor, and resorting instead to human wisdom. This is going to the "broken cistern" instead of to the "fountain;" a sin which was laid against Israel of old. Anxiety makes us doubt God's lovingkindness, and thus our love to Him grows cold; we feel mistrust, and thus grieve the Spirit of God, so that our prayers become hindered, our consistent example marred, and our life one of self-seeking. Thus want of confidence in God leads us to wander far from Him; but if through simple faith in His promise, we cast each burden as it comes upon Him, and are "careful for nothing" because He undertakes to care for us, it will keep us close to Him, and strengthen us against much temptation. "Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on Thee, because he trusteth in Thee."