Watch this and you'll understand
I am kindly asking you to view this video before you read the rest of this post (The guy at the beginning and end of the video is the one who took the pictures):
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After much prayer and consideration, I have decided to accept a position in Denver, Colorado. My first day will be January 22, 2007. I will move up there first and we will hopefully get the house sold quickly and then move the rest of the family. Please be in prayer for me and my family as we make this transition.
This wasn't the easiest decision to make, but it is for the best. We will be closer to family, I'll have a much better job, be much closer to home and, let's face it, Colorado is beautiful (as you can tell from the video).
I will miss you all, but I will not be too far away. I will still be blogging in my irregular and irreverent fashion.
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After much prayer and consideration, I have decided to accept a position in Denver, Colorado. My first day will be January 22, 2007. I will move up there first and we will hopefully get the house sold quickly and then move the rest of the family. Please be in prayer for me and my family as we make this transition.
This wasn't the easiest decision to make, but it is for the best. We will be closer to family, I'll have a much better job, be much closer to home and, let's face it, Colorado is beautiful (as you can tell from the video).
I will miss you all, but I will not be too far away. I will still be blogging in my irregular and irreverent fashion.
posted by Truth Seeker at 11/21/2006 02:36:00 PM
1 Comments:
Oh Doug! I had to walk away for a few minutes to gather my thoughts before I responded.
I'm happy for you!!! Being in an area that God places in your heart is a journey and a joy unto itself. You probably know that God has set Knoxville, TN, in our hearts. So I can really relate.
At the same time, my heart can't help but be a little blue. All four of you guys are really special to me, and I will miss seeing those smiling faces. My girls will never forget their friends Rachel and Ashyln, and I shall never forget my sweet friend Regina...nor my favorite blogging buddy: you!
God moves us all around in different places for His purpose and His cause. My heart is sad because it will miss all of you — but I would miss you all anyway when we go to Tennessee...so it's just the way of it, right?
I just want you to go get Regina, close ya'll's eyes right now and picture me with a microphone in my hand and a karaoke machine behind me (and maybe I'm wearing something with sequins — and definitely a hat — oh, and could I be skinny in this deal?) and singing:
Packing up the dreams God planted
In the fertile soil of you
Can't believe the hopes he's granted
Means a chapter in your life is through.
But we'll keep you close as always;
It wont even seem you've gone
'Cause our hearts in big and small ways
Will keep the love that keeps us strong.
Chorus:
And friends are friends forever
If the Lord's the lord of them
And a friend will not say never
cause the welcome will not end.
Though it's hard to let you go
In the Father's hands we know
That a lifetime's not too long to live as friends.
With the faith and love God's given
Springing from the hope we know
We will pray the joy you'll live in
Is the strength that now you show
But we'll keep you close as always
It wont even seem you've gone
cause our hearts in big and small ways
Will keep the love that keeps us strong
And friends are friends forever
If the Lord's the lord of them
And a friend will not say never
cause the welcome will not end.
Though it's hard to let you go
In the Father's hands we know
That a lifetime's not too long to live as friends.
Well...I'm happy for you, truly I am. I'm also fervently grateful that that wasn't an Amway video. I was really concerned that I was about to learn all about the new ways I could fill up my garage with Amway toilet paper and window cleaners...all the while making more money than I EVER could at my real job...and that one day I, too, could put on a nice suit and be on a YouTube video extolling the virtues of how filling every excess corner of my home with Amway apple chips has given me the opportunity to travel all the way to Hawaii.
I'm really bad...
Well...tell Regina I think God has decided it's time to send out little pieces of God-soaked Angies out into the world. There is truth to be told, and somebody's gotta tell it. Maybe we're all first.
I love you guys. We'll only be a couple of mountain ranges apart.
Promise me you'll keep blogging, and tell Regina my eyes tear up when I think of not seeing her pretty face every week. I think the hardest part for me right now is the realization that my Jill & Anna-Grace won't grow up with Rachel and Ashlyn as their little friends.
My heart is with you guys...and I'm truly happy for you.
Now I gotta go cry...
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