The Pastor's Wife Bloggery

Excitement! Where does it go? Now I'm not talking about just any excitement.  Not the kind that, "Oh the new Divergent book just made a movie.  Score!" or "We finally get to go on that family vacation we have been dying to go on for years."  Don't get me wrong, this kind of excitement is great.  It's what sometimes keeps us going from day to day.  However, how often do we get to that movie or that vacation and start to complain about things.  "They left out so much from the book. (Well of course...it's a movie)"  "That state park was lacking in so many ways.  We barely even saw any animals."   Sometimes excitement dies. Is it our age, experience, too high of expectations?  Whatever it is that makes our excitement fizzle out, this isn't the kind that i'm talking about.  I'm talking about the excitement of a kid.  The excitement of a 5 year old buying school supplies for the first day of Kindergarten, or the excitemen

I write my first blog entry on a special occasion.  Today is Father's Day: a wonderful day in which we recognize special men in our lives; especially our fathers who have helped raise us and mold us into the people in which we have become.  I am fortunate to have many father figures in my life.  There have been many strong men who have helped me declare my values and morals, along with helping me to succeed and accomplish many goals.  From teachers, coaches, church friends, and beyond, I am more than grateful for the wonderful men in my life. The most outstanding example in my life would have to be my own father.  My dad is a man who I have always looked up to.  When I was little he was my hero.  He was the one who could do anything, fix anything, make all the bad away; and he still is that man.  I still am so much of my daddy's little girl and I believe that my dad is the dad that tops them all.  I know that there are things in his life he feels uncomfortable with.  There a