Let's see if the Mavs can pull it off again today at 4:30. Dirk's gotta make his shots.......

Do you ever have one of those days where every small thing that could possibly go wrong does? That's how today was for me. I wake up with a headache, stub my toe getting out of bed. OUCH!!! I head to Starbucks and the same girl who makes my drink everyday made it again today, but for some reason she messed it up. No big deal, i didn't say anything because coffee is coffee and it was good anyway. I get to school and my first period teacher asks if I will run to Chick-fil-a for him. So I agree because he said that I could get something for myself with his money. So I get to Chick-fil-a and head inside to order. I get his four-piece chicken minis, his large Diet coke with extra ice, a Dr. pepper for my friend Jack, and a chicken biscuit for myself. I start to walk back to my car, reach into my pocket for my keys.....and.....and.....CRAP! They are in my ignition with my car running and my doors locked. Which is twice as bad when you are nearly out of gas and your gas gauge doesn't work. So now I have to guess how much gas was eaten up while I was waiting to get back into my car. I have to call my mom with some guys cell phone at Chick-fil-a, because I don't have one, and ask her to bring the spare set of keys to me at the restaurant. As I'm sitting and waiting for my keys, I unwrap my chicken biscuit only to find that there is no chicken in my biscuit...there is sausage. I wasn't even going to try and ask them to fix it...so I put on a smile and ate my sausage biscuit. Nothing major....nothing went drastically wrong. Just about a hundred tiny things adding up to one crappy morning. It happens........

As most of you probably know, I go to Starbucks on average..4 out of 5 school days, at least once each weekend, and about 2 times each week during weekday evenings. But I have noticed that I rarely go in there without seeing someone that I know. Apparently it isn't just me who lives at Starbucks. People actually come up to my parents and start a conversation with, "Hey, I saw Craig at Starbucks yesterday..."

If you have ever seen me at Starbucks, enjoying God's wonderful, smooth, rich creation of coffee, leave a comment. This could get interesting if the right people read my blog....

I've been having so much fun preparing my lesson over Romans 15 that I'll be teaching this wednesday while Brent is out. As I start to pull all of my notes and stuff into an actual, applicable lesson..pray that I would be sensitive to where God is leading the lesson. It is one thing to have a cool Bible study where everyone learns some cool facts. But it is something completely different for someone in the room to walk out looking a little more like Christ at the end of the night. God's word is able to change our lives for the better every time that we open it and my prayer is that God uses me as a tool to do exactly that. It may just be a small high school Bible study...but it is the Word of God and I won't take this responsibility lightly. Just keep me in your thoughts.



Is it possible to have a case of the Monday's on a Tuesday????

Now that prom is over, high school is coming to an end very quickly. As it ends I am realizing all of the great things that I will be leaving behind. Why are they coming to me so late in my high school career that I am almost out of time to enjoy them? Some things I have just taken for granted for four years. Others I am just now seeing...missed opportunities hurt.

Now it is almost bitter for me to tell you that I got my letter of acceptance into the Honors College today at Texas Tech. Now I will be learning with the smart people. I wonder how long it will take them to realize that I'm not one of them.

Amazing. Everything about it....AMAZING!

And that is a lot coming from me.