Hello All,

I am new to blogging but not to holding and expressing personal viewpoints.  My children and wife have been blogging here for a good time now.  See if you can guess who they are.

In this blogsite I will share my prayers, my thanks to God and His goodness, homeschooling experiences, things I do for fun, and things I do out of responsibility and obedience to God's word for my family, my local community and for this great country of ours.  I will share photos whenever the picture tells the better story.

I love this great country of ours.  I am saddened by the deterioration in peoples values that I have witnessed in my lifetime.  As long as I am here on earth, I am committed to honor God, tell of His goodness to others, and standup against those who seek to remove my rights to freely do so.  I will also do my best to bring awareness to Fathers to be the leaders of their families spiritual growth.  Our wives want this more than anything.

Because I really desire to be a genuine Christian let me be honest with you openly from the get go, I am just as much a work in progress in the Lord as the next guy and I struggle walking the talk as much as anyone here does.  Knowing this does not excuse me from seeking God's wisdom on a daily basis. 

One of my favorite songs, featured on this site, is by Casting Crowns called "here I go again."  This song speaks to me as I can recall times that I have failed to share my faith with friends and most  importantly my father who died from pancreatic cancer 10 years ago.  In the last week of my father's life, I came to him asking for his foregiveness.  I grew up always looking back at the pain that my father caused me  never once stopping to consider how I had hurt him.  On the airliner to Fresno, 10 years ago, I was amazed at how many things I was able to remember and write down to address with him in our final time together.

Thank you reading this and I hope to communicate with you soon.

D.