I do dumb things

Last night I had to leave to counsel some people from my church at 8:00 and I didn't get home until 9:30. Then I talked to Bea until about 10:00pm. She, being both smart and pregnant, went to sleep. I felt like I had to know what happened with the season finale of 24. So I watched it. Then I thought, "If I don't watch the season finale of Heroes someone is going to tell me what happens." So I watched it. At this point it's just after midnight. Then Grace walks in the living room as I'm turning off the TV and she wants me to come "cuddle her." So I lay in her bed until about 12:35am. Then I sneak out and finally go to bed.

Needless to say, when the alarm starting going off at 5:40 I was very sad. I will continue to be sad through a day of meetings.
I do dumb things.

Do you?

By the way, I was disappointed in both season finales. I heard 24 is going to change the show a lot and they need to. It's getting WAY TOO formulaic. A lot of things happened at the end of Heroes, but I wasn't sure if I cared.

Tattoo

I'm very seriously thinking about putting something like this on my right shoulder.

Thoughts??

I HAVE OFFICIALLY DECIDED

I am going to meet with the head of the PhD Program at Talbot today and officially drop out of the program. This is a big decision, but I believe it's the right one for multiple reasons.
1. I am feeling more and more called to being a pastor long-term and even being more of a preaching pastor and potentially leading a church or even planting a church someday.
2. After observing the professors, graduates of the program, and the current students I don't think that I want to be in the academic world full-time. I feel like I would love to be an adjunct youth ministry or other practical ministry professor and teach one class while still working full-time in the church.
3.I simply don't have time to put the proper amount of focus and energy into the program. With working at Calvary and overseeing all of Student Ministries and the Elevation service I feel pretty busy in the sense of study and work. Also, with my wonderful wife, almost four year old girl, and another daughter due in July, I don't want to be spending all my free time reading and writing papers. We put Grace down at 7:30 or 8:00pm and then I'm supposed to start doing homework after getting to work at 8am in the morning. It's just not going to happen.

So I know that I can always go back later in life if I want to. I'm only 32. I meet with my professor today at 3:00pm. I'm kind of dreading talking to him. I feel like we are breaking up or something.

All I feel is relief and happiness. Big sigh of stress leaving my body...aaahhhhhh...

Not Ready to Blog Yet

Our vacation was amazing and restful. I'm not ready to blog yet because I'm so mellow and pondering some big life decisions that make it hard to write about trivial things.