This month, I celebrate four years of marriage to the absolute love and beauty of my life, Dona. The Bible says, “Who can find a virtuous woman? For her price is far above rubies.” Well, I can assure you, I found her. She abounds with strength, dignity, grace, love, and virtue, and always bears a heart of servitude and care in everything she does and everyone she touches. She is truly magnificient and radiant in every way, from the inside out. Yet even with these few words I write today, I could not even come close to expressing the full magnitude of all that she really means to me and how she has added to my life. All I can say is that I am so thankful to God for the honor of going through time with her.... and I look forward to spending millions and millions of more minutes and "priceless" moments with her. I love you, Dona. You are my ONE and ONLY.

Hello again to everyone out there! I want you to know from the very bottom of my heart your visit (or revisit) to my blog means the absolute world to me. I hope only that it might mean something to you in return.

It has been a long four months since my last post. In spite of this protracted silence, I want to assure you I did not abandon my passion for blogging. If anything, I took a needful sabbatical from it. Since the beginning of the year, I have undertaken a couple of new and adventurous challenges, causing me a great deal of excitement, yet perhaps even more fatigue, both mentally and physically. The first challenge was the beginning of a new job. The second, buying a first home. Between the two, my head has been spinning like a fighter jet barreling out of control.

Needless to say, through all the chaos of "change," my blog has taken a back burner while I took some necessary time to clear my head and locate ground zero again. In the process, I found myself simply soaking in silence - not really exerting anything out of my spirit, just listening. I needed quiet. Contemplating the last few months, I thank God for giving me patience and sanity to get through them, because I know that I did not sustain them on my own strength. It has given me great peace to know that He will never fail me or let me fail. I also give a great deal of gratitude to my wife, Dona, for always believing in me.

Having said all that, I just want to finish this blog entry by commiting to all the visitors and readers of this blog, and most importantly to myself, that I will do my very best to submit at least one entry per week to this web journal..... Not that I have anything "great" to say, but there are some things you just feel to do, if for no one else but yourself.