greggandcyndi

time to pray

a friend of mine has a post you should read here.  please check it out and consider giving some time to prayer.

okay

i need a different job.  the search continues.

i got a jobby job

well it happened.  i got a job.  with a baby on the way, i decided that i needed to get a full time job, no matter what the future holds for me in ministry.  so a couple of days ago i got the call from seaberg industries, a company whos owners are christian, and go to the church i am working at part time.  i will be working with shipping, on a swing shift from 11am-7pm.  this is going to be a huge change for my schedule, considering i haven't had much of one for the past couple of months.

if you want to check out their website, go here.

thanks for your prayers, and keep them up as we get closer to having the baby!

thanks
gregg

birthday present

some of you may know that i am very into emerging ideas and love to experiment with what "church" really is.  well for my birthday, cyndi signed me up to go to the emergent convention.  this will be the third time i've gone, once to san diego and now twice to nashville.  last year cyndi went with me, but this year we will have a new born and so she won't be able to go.  she still wants me to go, as long as the baby comes on time.  if the baby is more than a couple of days late, i'll have to cancle.  every time i go i have learned so much about myself and i am very excited about going again.  if any of you want to check it out, you should go to the link above and see if it will be right for you.  i hope to see a lot of the friends that i have made from across the country and learn, once again, more about myself. 

God Bless and we'll see you later

gregg

it's a brennan

it's a boy, it's a boy, it's a boy.........................

can you believe it.  i started crying the instant the tech said it was a boy.  i have always wanted a boy...i have begged and pleaded with God in the past that at least my first baby be a boy, and while almost all my relatives except for my dad, thought it was a girl, i held on to the hope of a boy. 

there is a bit of a back story to my excitement though.  not 45 minutes before i found out our baby had a penis, i was talking to my mentor, doug, and i was sharing with him how abandoned and lost i have been feeling.  about how over the past year i feel like i have done everything that God has asked of us and that He hasn't been keeping up His end of the bargain!  i have had to deal with some anger toward God because we have given up a lot and a lot has fallen through anyway.  doug reassured me that i haven't been lost, and that i am still in the sight of God.  i know that He still loves me, but it just doesn't seem like much has worked out and with the joy/stress of a baby coming and not having a full time job, the feelings of confusion and frustration with God's seemingly hidden plan has increased. 

to the punch line...as i sat there in the ultrasound room with cyndi and the tech told us it was a boy, i immediately felt the presence of the holy spirit fill the room.  i felt his sweet whisper telling me He knew where i was, that i was not lost, that He knew what i really wanted.  He knew i have always wanted a boy and at that moment as the spirit of the living God surrounded me in that place, i knew that He had only the best in store for me.  He is my sweet Abba and there is no other that fulfills me like Him!  I am my beloved's and He is mine and i will never be out of his sight even if i sink into the depths or rise above the clouds. 

so we are having a boy!  and i am very excited.

gregg

p.s. as i was driving home the other evening, i saw the moon and the bottom half was covered by an illuminated cloud.  it looked as though the eye of God was peeking out from the darkness to see me on my way.

getting a jobby job

i'm looking for a job.  there are so many directions that our lives could go in, mostly because we aren't doing anything right now.  yes, i am still working part time at homewood and cyndi is part time at the bridal shop, but really we are not tied down to either one of those.  we could do anything, but i am starting to feel an ache that says "stay in the qc".

now you have to understand something, i have been trying to get out of the quad cities pretty much my entire life, but the closer and closer i get to having our baby, the more i feel like staying here.  i don't know that it is God saying that, it is just a feeling.  so of all the possibilities that are out there, right now i am looking for a regular job.  i prayed and asked God, "if you want me to have a regular job here in the qc, will you please at least let it be something that i could enjoy a little?"  looking through the job ops on-line, i only saw one that really intersted me, and it's helping youth get their ged and holding down jobs and stuff.  funny, i am looking for a job, and possible job is to help younger people hold down jobs.  ironic i guess. 

anyway, if you can pray for me, us, all three of us, we would appreciate it.

gregg