WOW! This pic was given to me yesterday by our new neighbors and old friends Brad & Missy Griffin. It’s from 1994 when Missy and I were on Aldersgate summer staff together. Nine years ago! I was considerably thinner then. Good memories! Gotta give a shout out to my long time friend Shane Hinkle (he’s in the pic behind me)!

It’s amazing the journey we’ve been on in these nine years. God has taught us/me a lot. The heartache and the joy, the new beginnings and the sad goodbyes, the friends made and the ones lost, so much learned, so much gained, but still grief for what’s been lost. If these next nine years are any thing like the previous, well, it will be amazing.