A Truck Story

My dad ordered a cord of wood. Yes, he did. He ordered a cord of wood. The man he bought if from, Mr. Emerson, was a really nice guy, and he came to deliver the cord of wood my dad bought. 

My dad thought our yard would be dry enough, so he said that Mr. Emerson could just drive through. Alas, it was still wet and Mr. Emerson got stuck. So, we unloaded our wood from his trailer and tried pushing him out, but with still another load of wood in the bed of his truck, the task was difficult. So difficult, in fact, that we did not succeed.

That's right. We failed to push the truck out of our yard. So, we called a tow truck and they got him out in no time.

The following are the images documenting the affair. Let them tell you the story.

-Dominic

The Motions

So this past week I had an assignment for Literature to write a poem... I started it last Friday, but over the weekend, I was thinking about the topic I had chosen to write on, and really did not like it. It was really lame. So... I was praying about what I should write on, and God gave me the idea to write about just going through the motions of being a Christian.

Here's the poem:

The Motions

by

Anthony A. DiMaria

I wake up every morning, get out of bed,

Pick up my Bible, to see what the Lord has said.

For a while I’m interested, but as the days wear on,

It becomes just another thing on my check list.

It is like school to me now, I just do it to be done with it.

I am not focused on learning from it. I would rather

Be playing games or watching movies.

But then, in some event, the Lord shows me

That I am not honoring Him.

I am just going through the motions.

I say that I love Him, yet I put so many things first.

I say He is my number one priority, yet I would spend

Hours watching movies, and only fifteen minutes

In His word, learning from Him.

When I read my Bible, I’m thinking more about

How I can impress my friends with a new item

That has just come out, instead of focusing

And meditating on what I read.

I write about meaningless things that happen in my life

But I never write about what I have been reading in His word.

I put on a show at church so all my friends there

Will think I am a great follower of God, but at

Home I say and do things that God hates.

The Lord has revealed to me that I need to

Repent and be restored. I need to stop going

Through the Motions.

I used to wonder why the Lord wasn’t revealing

Anything to me, but I now know, that I was

Shutting Him off and not letting Him teach me

From His word. Now that I am not just going through

The motions, I feel like a new being. I feel free,

As if a huge burden has now been lifted off of me.

I now know what it feels like to truly follow God;

To truly honor Him... to truly put Him as my number one.

To truly be one of His children... It’s like a light has gone

On in me, I see things from a different view.

Now that I am not just going through the motions.

Let me know what you think!

In Christ,

-anth-

Snow

Yep, you read that right! We got snow here in SC! It was the first measurable snow fall here in the Charleston area in 10 years. When the snow was done falling we had about 3 inches. Well, we didn't want to miss this rare opportunity we had at getting some pictures of the snow, so we (Dom, Me, John, and Zeke) decided to get up early Saturday morning to take some pictures!

Here are a few of the ones I took:

You can see the pictures Dom took (and read the story of how he got a new camera) Here.

Thanks for stopping by! God bless!

-anth-