Stac’s Place

Last week I decided that I needed to get back into shape.  My son is about as big as me, and playing football.  If I’m going to be able to dominate him in the occasional basement wrestling match, I need to do something.  I’ve got the “dad-strength” advantage, but I know that it’s only a [...]

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All our paperwork is in!  YES!
We got an email today from our agency saying that someone else in the great state of Georgia was going to handle Kim’s clearance, and that they promised to get it done in 5 days.  It took TWO!
This afternoon I got my doctor to fax a letter stating that I [...]

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Last night we had a special guest speak to our middle school students.  Gerald Cadogan is a big man, with a big heart for God.  How big?  Try 6′5″, 309 pounds.  At least, that’s what the NFL says.  Gerald says he’s actually 6′6″, 312.  But when a man of that size talks, people listen.
Gerald talked [...]

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Jesus said that “no one puts new wine into old wineskins.” (Luke 5:37)  That spoke to me today.
I’ll be honest–I don’t like change.  I like things to stay the same, at least when they’re working well.  I like my routines, my patterns.  I like things to be stable.  Change is upsetting.  It wrecks the routine.  [...]

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Dwayne Boswell is a friend of mine from high school.  He’s a musician, and was a pretty decent baseball player in junior high.  He chose the guitar case over the bat bag, and is still playing music in and around our hometown.
His FB status update this morning was from Psalm 118:24–This is the day that [...]

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We got our hard copy of the approval in the mail last Friday, just before we loaded 50 of us into vans for the yearly Welcome Weekend retreat for middle school students.  A couple of days ago we learned that our travel dates are tentatively scheduled for the last week of Nov thru the first [...]

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Don’t know if you caught it, but the nines was the hottest trending topic (for at least part of the day) on Twitter today (09.09.09).  That might have gone right past you.  If you missed it, more than 75 leaders talking about faith, church, Jesus and all things in-between.  Each presenter got 9 minutes to [...]

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We interrupt your regularly scheduled broadcast to bring you this special update:
Annabelle Mei Yun Mao is now a Sublett!  Well, the documents have to be finalized, but our adoption agency just called to give us the news.  We should be headed to China some time in November.
I can’t really put into words all the emotions [...]

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STRESS…it seems to roll around this time every year for some of us.  It comes from all directions and sources.  It could be your job, your family, your team, your school…Maybe you’re one of those people who live in a constant state of emotional duress.  Or perhaps you’re one of the calm, cool, collected people [...]

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IT’S READY!
The call came Sunday.  Bart Grande (of Monster Garage fame!) has been re-building the carb and freeing a frozen piston to get my bike road worthy.  Most of my experience with carbs has been centered on Dr. Atkins’ plan, so Bart was a God-send.
Oh yeah…that’s right…I’m soon to be a biker.  I’ve got to [...]

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