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I just woke up about 17-minutes ago and I can’t shake the dream I was having.

I’d love to know what YOU think my dream means, so post your thoughts (even if your thoughts include ideas of me seeking professional help) in the comments and lets see what you all can come up with!

Here’s the dream as best as I can remember:

I was the passenger in a car traveling with an unknown male friend. I know that we were headed out to go hunting. I believe we were in Pennsylvania somewhere. I am fairly sure we were planning on going small-game hunting.

We pulled off the road in our vehicle and began to travel through windshield-high grass and I spotted a deer directly in front of our vehicle. My driver did swerve to miss the deer and we continued driving through this field.

We came to a clearing of sorts and drove into an open area where the field had been harvested and we instantly noticed close to a hundred deer scattered throughout the field. They were running and jumping – looked like they were playing out in the field.

We were both instantly disappointed – knowing that we merely had bird-shot in our shot guns and a small-game-ready .22 rifle. We did mention that we should definitely come back here for deer hunting, but suddenly the deer in the field came into better view.

My dream takes a turn for the weird here:

The deer in the field were actually Amish men. As we looked closer the Amish men were all playing in this huge field – they were playing some sort of game with the largest field-potatoes I had ever imagined. They were throwing one-or-more of them at each other and then chasing down the one who had the large potato and tackling him to the ground.

We approached cautiously and got out of the vehicle.

We watched this odd game and the Amish tackling each other in great wonderment.

One of the younger Amish men was getting frustrated with the two of us watching them and their game and came closer to us. He had a balsa-wood toy airplane in his hand and he threw it in the air. He threw it badly. It crashed. We laughed.

Then I woke up.

Possible reasons for such a dream:
1. I had leftover chicken enchiladas around 9PM last night.
2. We watched The Hulk on DVD and The Unit on TV before bed.
3. I drank a half-glass of orange kool-aid about an hour and a half before bed.
4. I have an incredible brain full of stuff like this just waiting to come out!

Okay, now here’s your chance. Interpret!

Found some interesting comparison photos of some of our Presidents during their first months in office versus their final days in office. I thought they were interesting. You might not.


Source: ABC News.

Me & Duffy

11.15.2008 — Leave a comment

From 11.15.08 – Stevan & Duffy Robbins


Tonight Jess and I were able to attend the Westmoreland County Youth Network’s 2nd Annual Youth Ministry Appreciation Dinner in Greensburg. We even had the privilege of sitting at the table with Duffy Robbins – national speaker, youth ministry professor, and all-around youth ministry guru.

He shared some great encouragement with our group tonight that I am going to share here. He called these four-points “4 Simple Encouragement Principles” and yet they were extremely powerful to hear tonight:

#1. THE MORNING SICKNESS PRINCIPLE
– The process doesn’t always look like progress

#2. THE DIVINE SURPRISE PRINCIPLE
– God often acts when we don’t expect Him to

#3. THE MIRACLE MATH PRINCIPLE
– God takes negatives and turns them into positives

#4. THE REAL LOVE PRINCIPLE
– A commitment to God can look different between a teen and an adult and yet be as genuine.
– Thinking about the “I Love You” said to a spouse upon engagement vs. saying “I Love You” after 35-years of marriage. Same genuine commitment of love seen differently through the time frame of relationship.

Okay, I’m in

My web-buddy Tim Schmoyer is the proud owner of TWO iPod touches, an XBOX 360 Elite, and thousands of dollars that he got FOR FREE.

He just posted again over at timschmoyer.com about how he got these incredible items with a minimal investment. (he has invested only about $100 of his own money to receive ALL of the items he has already received.)

What hooked me was that he just turned in his referrals for his wife’s BRAND NEW MacBook today. I just HAVE to try my hand at this and see what the possibilities could be for me and MY family!

He has a LOT more active readers to his blog, so I know I won’t get completed referrals as soon as he did, but with the research he has done and the proof he has offered on his site time and time again, I feel like this is something I want to try out for myself. I’m going to document everything as I go, so let’s see where this takes us!

I signed up yesterday on the bonusipods.com site with simply an e-mail a password to login. I got my confirmation e-mail nearly instantly and I browsed through the offers (each referral – including me – has to complete a few trial offers to qualify for the FREE gift offer)

11.13.2008 – Signed up for the 1-month Blockbuster Online Trial ($9.99) [this offer completes 50% of my needed offers]
– I was immediately credited with my 50% offers status, which means I only need to fulfill another 50% and get enough referrals to receive my FREE iPod!
– immediately signed up to get Iron Man, Hulk, and Indiana Jones – three movies we haven’t seen yet! They go in the mail tomorrow!

Want in, too? Click here and sign up as a referral of mine!

New golf club improves flow of the game – it’s a urinal