It's been over a year since I've written in this blog, and much has happened since then. I've gone to my first Nashville Predators game and watched the Preds beat the Blackhawks at the Bridgestone Arena and had an amazing time with my friends Jon and Katelyn! I worked for six months at a thankless job in Milton, but God has now blessed me with a far better job at Mosaic serving adults with disabilities, and I am going on my fourth month there. It has been an enjoyable job so far, and it will be even better once I have the means to start taking them out to eat and out in the community. I've also been learning more and more about my faith through the classes I've been taking in my Master of Arts in Ministry program that I hope will help to prepare me for my eventual service to adults with disabilities in a Christian Summer Camp setting. The things I have learned have been greatly beneficial to my understanding of the Word of God, and of my own understanding of what God has remade in me. I know that everything I learn here will be of great value to me later on in my life. My family is all doing well, although I still remained concerned for my brother as he is still trying to find God's purpose for his life. Please pray that the Holy Spirit would draw him close and embrace him in His arms. My dad is doing okay, although sometimes he does or says something that doesn't make sense, but that's because of the early dementia. Pray that the Lord would keep a hold on his mind and keep him healthy. My mom is in her first week of recovery from a knee replacement surgery and the recovery time is three months long. Pray that the three of us can be good servants who take care of her, as she has so often done for us, and that her recovery would be swift and complete. Overall, my personal life has been quite good, albeit a bit boring at times since most of my closest friends live too far away from me to stay in face to face contact with, a situation I hope to remedy in a few years time. I am so proud of how far the faith of my friend Miles Allen has taken him, because I knew that he was chosen to do something special, and has God ever done that in his life as of the past year! If you don't know about Miles Allen now, trust me you will be glad you do once you check out the work he's done. I am also very proud of how far all of my friends that I had the privilege of working with at Inspiration Retreat Center have come. All of you have taken some of the things that you experienced and turned them into lasting positive impacts on your lives, and I take great joy in knowing all of the things that you are all inspired to do. At the same time, there has been some difficult times for some of my friends, and I pray that the Lord will come to them, and will help them to sort out the best way to deal with the difficulties that they are facing. I'm not going to mention anyone by name, but know that you are always on my heart, and my prayers are always interceding on behalf of you.
One thing I am still looking ahead to is finding the right woman that I want to spend the rest of my life with, although I have recently been having feelings that maybe there is someone who I can try to get to know better. I hope for the best, and hopefully I will find out if she is interested in getting to know me better by around this time next month. Until then, I keep my heart fixed on what the Lord has planned for me, and I know that it is far better than any plans I have for myself. So keep me in your prayers, and I will keep you in mine. Thanks for reading, and God bless you all,
Tyler
