Dang it feels good to be a man!!!

Today my wife went to visit her OBGYN. (She's pregnant, my wife that is) I was able to have a up close view of what women commonly refer to as the stirrups. A contraption that is built in order for women to have their woohoo checked. Oh yeah and this is supposed to happen monthly. For a man one of the worst things that we could have is a prostate exam. This is not a pleasant experience at all. I had my first about 8 months ago, and havent been able to look the doc in the face since then. If you dont understand what happens then let me tell you: The exam may be performed by a doctor or a specially trained person called a sonographer. For some patients, an enema is used before ultrasound of the prostate (another first for me). Because your prostate gland is located immediately in front of your rectum, the transducer is covered with a condom, lubricated, and placed into your rectum. Sounds like fun, huh? Well, anyways now that I have gone down that rabit-trail back to why is is good to be a man. No stirrups everymonth. No pains of birth. No special doctor with an evil sounding name (OBGYN!)

The Unknown

Life is an adveture into the unknown. Everything I do seems to be a step into the unknown. Like when I leave from my house I don't know that there is going to be some girl talking on a cell phone while driving a Lexus that her daddy probably bought for her. Who then slams on here brakes because she nearly missed her turn from being so distracted by her phone conversation. She didnt know that that the person behind her is holding in his passenger seat a bag from Chick-fil-A. Nor did she know that this person would have to slam on his brakes to avoid hitting her causing all contents of that Chick-fil-A bag to fly everywhere.

This event did not make me as mad as much as it made me aware of the unknown. Things that God sees way before we were ever born. Things that make you ask God, "Why?" As I crouched over on the side of the road cleaning up the coleslaw and barbeque sauce that has now coated the floor board of my truck. I realized that I am doing something at that moment which I had not planned. I am a planner and for a planner you cant have the unkown happen. But the unknown is going going to happen like death and taxes.

I find strength in God through the unkown. Last night as I was leaving youth (by the way I am a youth minister), I was feeling dejected because I felt my message was missed. However as I am getting into my truck one 13 year-old girl told me that the Lord was "totally" speaking to her. Praise you LORD!!!

Its the lowest times in life wew find His strength. I am reminded of a part in the second letter from Paul to a Church in Corinth. 2 Corinthians 5:7-10 (7We live by faith, not by sight. 8We are confident, I say, and would prefer to be away from the body and at home with the Lord. 9So we make it our goal to please him, whether we are at home in the body or away from it. 10For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that each one may receive what is due him for the things done while in the body, whether good or bad.)

My First Blog

This is my first ever blog. I have had webpages and online journals, but I guess this is different. I am probably the very last of all my friends to blog. A day late and a dollar short is the story of my life. Its not that I try to keep up with the "Jones'" but I do like new stuff. I don't NEED new stuff but I like it.
The title of my blog, "My Aldersgate Experience", is based on John Wesley's own personal life changing experiences that he had at certain part of his life. At a Moravian band meeting on Aldersgate Street in London, England(May 24, 1738), as he listened to a reading from Luther's preface to his commentary on Romans, Wesley felt his "heart strangely warmed." I too am at a point in my life where I am feeling my heart strangely warmed and growing; through my ministry, as a youth minister, and through my family, as a husband and soon to be father.