Hello all. I know it's been a little bit since my last post. I don't want to talk about it too much, but the security job kinda went south. That's all right though. Speaking of going south...it's a good possibility that we may be moving to Lead Hill, Arkansas. Even as early as next month. There is only about 300 people in Lead Hill, but that is why we are going. Some associates of Heather's Dad are buying up a lot of land down there to develop and sell. The town is about a half hour from Branson Missouri which is apparently a big tourist town and a smaller version of Nashville Tennessee. Heather will be selling real estate. We don't know all the details as yet, but we will keep everyone informed. We are going to be put up down there for a while and this is really just a big favor to us. Please pray that the Lord would just open and close doors for us. This is a big decision and we want our will to be in-line with the Lord's. A bit nervous about it all.

Oh, yes. Heather and I have gotten a new car. This morning we picked up a 2000 Chevrolet Prizm. We got a great deal and were surprised at how low our interest rate was on the loan. We really needed a new car. We thank the Lord for providing it for us.

The winds of change are blowing through. Pray that we would use it and go with it...not just stand here and get wind burnt.

I have gotten a job! I dropped off the application yesterday morning and on the way to and from the place I prayed that God would just open up the right doors and close the wrong ones because I alone am not wise enough to know the difference. I was told that I would probably get an interview right then and there and possibly be hired on the spot.(like any thing in life is ever as simple as you think). Anyway-she told me that she had hired three new people this weekend and she really didn't need anyone else, but she would put my application on the top of the stack.(thanks for the good word Steve) This morning she called and said someone didn't show for work so if I still wanted the job it was mine. YEA! Kinda feels odd because yours truly will now be a security guard. Yep. Me a rent a cop. Hee hee. Who would have ever thought that I, who use to spend all my time smoking pot and looking over my shoulder for cops, would one day wear a badge. I thought maybe a Bozo button, but never a badge. Weird!

A security guard?! Hmm.

Well, it's just part time starting out and it will be 12 hour shifts from 10pm to 10am Friday and Saturday nights. Which means I will be missing the service at First Baptist on Sunday for a while. I hope to be awake enough to make it to our Seekers group after work though. I really love the people and conversation. I will be looking to find a gathering or gatherings during the week. I think I might look over by the Purdue campus in West Lafayette. Maybe around the Chauncey Hill/Village. Not sure though. Will let the Lord lead. But I am here and willing to Go where he sends me.(I always have this feeling like - oh gosh what am I asking for, when I say that)

Please pray for my family and I. I have been home with the kids for a while now and it is going to be odd for all of us, me being away working. I like it that it is just the weekends to start out. Makes it easier on us.

I gotta say that I love my family! Heather, Mikah, and Kiara are the most wanderful people that God could have ever placed into my life. All the little problems and the BIG ones that come around just seem so trivial when I set back and look at my family. The children are getting so big. Heather just amazes me everyday the women God has helped her to grow into. If you were to have known Heather, even 4-5 years back, and then saw her today....you would be blown away buy the change. She really is a new person. I loved her then. I love her now. And I will love her always.

I love you all.....e-mail me.

I just wanted to remember to put Jesus at the center of this conversation and my journey. And to remind myself and those who read this blog to stop looking at the computer for a moment and look to Him.

Stop and look at how this one man touched so many people just in his lifetime and the outgrowth of His love into all peoples....into all of time.

He was a Jew. Look at the box he had to think outside of. I think Jesus said, "there is no box. I need no stinkin' box."

He rested his faith and hope in His father. Not in any form of delivery. He knew that his father's love was grand enough to reach those who were not like him. And were not going in to the temples.

We are the temple........let's go!

Jesus

Let us not forget Jesus.

Howie is our pastor for a time while we search for the one God is going to join with us.( I believe Howie is with us by the command of God) He told the congregation that he had a vision and asked the decans to help. He wants to have, on our communion table(durring service-hee hee), enough fried chicken for all a hundred and some of us to have at least one piece. Cool!!!! In my church where you often here, "but we've never done it that way before", this is very cool!

Let's make church functional again for those of us who have fallen asleep in the pews. Those of us who can't figure out how to make church something other than an event. Those of us who want to make it functional in this lost world we live in.

Howie Ness brought to my attention Sunday that God hates those three little words, "I am only..."

I have been saying this a lot lately. "God you say you want to use me? But I am only..." I don't know what God has in store for me or us as a family, but I do know that we need some close relationships with people who will " challenge us to seek God, either within or outside our church's walls"(thanks Kristen) I have become part of some relationships in my blogging community that are this way and I hope that I have as much to offer them, as well. I need this in my geographic community too though.

We had a conversation Sunday in our Seekers class and the question was brought up whether we should have to go out of our comfort zones and intentionally have relationships with people so God can touch lives or do we set back and let God put those people there in our jobs and in the midst of our daily lives.

I felt as though everyone was saying that we are not called to GO, but we are all only to touch those who we come across right where we are at.

Now, I agree that we are to be a lighthouse to those around us...right where we are, but I also believe that some of us are called to GO. Not just across the street, but across town, across the world, and/or across our comfort zones to touch people who we would never, for any reasons of our own, speak to or have a relationship with.

UPDATE:::I came back to edit what I wrote a couple of posts back for some reason, but I've chosen to leave it there....Sometimes I don't know what I believe about what we as a family needs and we as a Church needs. I just know that I am hungry as Hell for a deeper relationship with Christ. I have no close friendships with anyone besides my wife and my children. I need all of you out there praying for me and joining me in my journey. I do know that I am 'hungry to serve' and it is scary because I feel led to leave the safety of the walls of the Church to 'GO' and be a 'lighthouse' to the world.---Me?! Me who is scared as heck of people? I use to go hide in the library during lunch at school so I could avoid the large clicks. I was friends with everyone I knew, but I was scared of them for some reason.

I don't know where to begin except by intentionally stepping out of my comfort zone and building relationships with people.

Lord help me with my faith and help me to keep my eyes on you and you at the center of everything--separating nothing from my service to you and the Kingdom.

I have not told you yet...Kiwi has strep throat. She started breaking out in a rash and my mom noticed soars in her mouth after church yesterday. Heather took her in to Walk-in last night and we've started giving her Amoxicillin. She already seems to be feeling better, although it seems to hurt her to eat some things. She's lovin' the red grapes though. Please continue to pray for my little princess.

While I am away I want to let you all know some things I am thinking about and if you could share your thoughts with me about them or just share any thoughts with me I would love to get to know you all better.

:::On some of my previous thoughts Marc has said "it helps to make a distinction between your personal journey and Jesus working through many Christians and expressions of Church."

:::I don't feel that people should have to come through the doors of 'the structure we call church' to see us being church.

:::as much as I feel frustrated in the church group I am in, I know that Heather and I need some guidance and some good Christian relationships-for us and we feel we have something to offer in those relationships as well.

:::The winds of change are blowing through. When we get back from our little vacation I will be looking for a job and we will be moving in to our own place soon.

:::I don't have any examples of just getting out and being church to the rest of the world.

:::Yes. We are called to worship-together and in song, but what about the rest of the Bible??? Hmm? What about getting out and loving our neighbor? If shouting out "I am a Christian and my way is the only way" turns more people away than it gathers-is this loving my neighbor? How about I just be a Christian. Never deny it. And just trust in the Holy spirit to work through that. I mean really-the barrier is as big "as the one you'd have to overcome to join a Muslim Paintball club."-except for the reality of the Holy Spirit being at work.(maybe we should go into that Muslim Paintball club)

:::I don't know where to begin except to just be me and the Millers out there to the rest of the world. But we really feel we need to concentrate our efforts outside of the 'Church on Sunday' for sure.

:::We really want to find another way of doing it. Being it.

Well, we will be off to Cedar Point tomorrow morning around 9.

Heather and Mikah will both be celebrating a birthday while we are away. Heather's B-day is Tuesday and Mikah's is Thursday. We questioned, at first, whether we wanted to be away on Mikah's B-day, but we both need a little break and Mikah will have fun. Also, we didn't think we were going to be able to get him much, but Heahter's brother Shane was selling his Gameboy Advance with a couple of games for $80 and we talked him into selling it to us and giving it to Mikah for $40. Cool!!! He loves it. He's already been playing it, but he thinks that it is still Shane's. We will probably still wrap it for him though.

Please pray for Kiwi (Kiara). She has got a couple of more teeth trying to come through....not fun! She's running a temp and screaming all the time. On top of this we are watching our nephew Gavin who is 2. Gavin and Mikah just do not seem to see eye to eye on anything.

Thanks be to God! They have all went down for a nap! All at the same time! And Mikah never takes a nap! YEA!!!

I found a cool link for when I use the word "yea" .

I'm not sure when I will need to use it next-so I'll just use it now....... YEA!!!