Signings and Recent Feelings - What to Remember Me By

Recently I have been frustrated with life and just what I perceive to be a lack of progression. I have lacked the patience for a natural progression in God’s time. I have two signings coming up for my first book:

Gnu's Room Signing April 23 11:00 am - 1:30 pm in Auburn, AL

Little Professor Cafe Signing April 30 12:00-2:30 pm in Birmingham, AL

I am really excited about these mini signings which symbolize where things begin. When I publish my memoir cowritten by both my father and Tim Webb I will remember the people who helped get me started, who helped support me in the beginning before I was able to make a name for myself.

Things take time, and I forget that sometimes. I had a friend tell me today that if you are patient in the small things God will deliver on the big things with faithfulness in good due time, but it takes time.

I do not measure my success on how much junk have, although I have an 87’ Pontiac Fiero for sale if you would like to purchase it. I like having a sporty car that barely runs, but I would like to think that running a marathon, backpacking through continents, getting a Masters degree, writing books, and hopefully acquiring a good job would attest to what I have done rather than a list of possessions I have accumulated.

I feel that I have gotten caught in the mundane of everyday routine life, something I vowed to try and never do. It is like walking through a desert without water sometimes.

For me, I hope that my signings remind me of what accomplishments and this Easter holiday are truly all about, to bring glory to His Name and His Name alone. I get caught up in ME when I should be caught up in HIM. I hope you are able to come out to one of the signings to support me as I push through to attain a dream greater than myself.

35 years old – Goals and two signings so far…

As I get older, more people seem to give me advice about how to live, sometimes I ask for it, sometimes I don’t. I rewrote this blog entry because the first entry was not as graceful as I would like it to have been. Sometimes people offer advice only because they care for you. Whether annoying or not, you may not want to hear it, but it may also be for the best.

I am currently working two jobs, one full time and one part time, one I am not so crazy about and the other I am very much crazy about in terms of just loving what I do. Sometimes you have to give something a chance before you decide whether you like it or you don’t. And even if you don’t, God calls us to be faithful in our steps towards Him.

I have had some close individuals inform me that I need to “narrow my focus.” I get agitated by what I sometimes consider narrow, half glass full perspectives. I do not want to narrow my focus. I want to live in a wide angle lens where life is so large it makes other people dizzy.

Our God is greater, our God is stronger
God You are higher than any other
Our God is Healer, awesome in power
Our God, Our God…
Who could ever stop me?

I love these lyrics by Chris Tomlin. They demonstrate the power of Christ to do big things in little people. One friend put it this way: “You've done more in one year than most in a decade.” At 28 years of age with the gifts the Lord has given me, I have been able to live a blessed life….having travel adventures around the world, writing this recent book, getting a Masters degree at a National Champion level education, running a recent marathon, and then a half marathon, and so on.

Ever since Billy Hornsby died, I have really questioned my purpose and my legacy with what I would like to leave behind. I am going on out on a limb here maybe by saying this, but before the age of thirty-five, I would like to publish a Christian memoir that hits the shelves of major bookstores around the country. I would like to start my own nonprofit. I would also like to be a participating member in planting an ARC church somewhere in Tennessee. I want to marry a hot wife and have at least one child by then as well. I want to plant life and live with purpose as if it actually makes a difference. I had a wakeup call today selling shoes that you cannot just wait around hoping for God to deliver this huge dream into your lap by doing nothing. Now my life goals may change, but the important thing is that you realize I believe I can do these things with the right teams in place and with a God who loves me with His infinite Power and Wisdom.

With this first book I published – 23 poems and 23 photographs – I have two signings coming up. I would love to have you join me at one of them by supporting a little person trying to live big dreams.

Signings for my First Book

Gnu's Room Signing April 23 11:00 am - 1:30 pm in Auburn, AL

Little Professor Cafe Signing April 30 12:00-2:30 pm in Birmingham, AL

Are you intimidated by life? Or are you ready to live the life God meant for you to have? Bill Hornsby once said this in a sermon, “Take God seriously. Take faith graciously. Take life hysterically.”