eviction, redemption and puddle hopping...

so for all the non posting nazi's out there who are about to growl at me here is my update of the past few eventful days in the life of leighton...

last week i recieved a note on my door of my cottage and was informed that i had one month to find alternate arrangements of the living persuasion... i wasn't sure why at the time, but i found out today... apparently "we do not live this way" or at least that is what i was told by my rich land lady... i think my porch was a little untidy for her liking... boy, did i ever feel like a red neck, but then i thought about this pish posh comment and i laughed my head off... funny thing is that i am moving into a 3 bedroom house just down the street for roughly the same price... yay to say the least...

saturday i got to see my kids... nuff said... but i will say more... my baby is the fattest little sprinter out there... he has his daddies belly to say the least and he is walking big time... fun, fun, fun... oh yeah and my still married wife is with lee's biological daddy again (drama) and i met him on saturday... awkward, but this will be a later post...

and last but not least today kirk, tim, his sister heidi, and myself took some teens to go puddle hopping... we took pictures and it was amazing... one of the highlights was having 2 lines on either side of a puddle and one of the teens parents flying through the puddle with her van... great time had by all... so yeah, keep in touch and go to www.habhater.blogspot.com and buy one of kirk's DVD's...

and p.s. 7 Cent Tip aka the band i play in is opening for Three Season Ant on September the 10th @ GMCS... how exciting... i can't wait...

so that is all for now boys and girls... have a great week...

Off by 24 hours... shucks!!!

so close, but not close enough is all i could say as i just missed a $400/ week job that would have allowed me to still do ministry in the evenings and keep my part time jobs...
my wonderful brother just got back from a week's vacation this sunday and he mentioned that he was speaking to a gentleman who needed another worker to help him make lobster traps for 40 hours a week at $10 an hour so i made the call since the guy was expecting me to and this seemed too good to be true... later on that evening the guy called me and told me that it was last week that he talked to my bro and since he did not hear from me he assumed i was not interested... so the long and short of it is that he hired a lady just the day before i called him... both he and i were kicking ourselves because he said he would have hired me in a second and since i just graduated from good ole BBC last year the government would have paid 70% of my salary... so hear i am with just my part timers again wondering if it is wrong for me to hope that things don't work out with this lady... so to quote an 80's band that i used to like and cannot remember the name of; "So close,yet so far away!"

Still waiting on Jehovah Jirah

Praise in the suckfullness...

i have to admit that despite the stressful times when i have no sweet clue as to what is going to happen or how the heck i am going to get out of them it is good to know that God does not change and has a plan... i know that this sounds cliche, but let me explain... to be honest i am still quite anxious as to how things are going to pan out about things, but God reminds me constantly that He believes in me and the abilities that He has given me... this has been evident this summer as God has increased my ministries... Tim and Kirk have a lot of occasions when they have to be away during parts of the summer and on many of those occasions they have asked me to fill in... this includes preaching, leading youth and leading worship (youth and sunday morning)...

in my last church that i attended i was taken out of the ministries that i was involved with due to me being in the midst of a separation... that hurt, but i understood and truthfully did not want for my situation to be a distraction to peoples worship... but now that i am home and had some time to heal God has blessed me with opportunities and two Godly leaders for pastors and good friends... this just reminds me over and over that God's promises are just that; promises... the tough part that i tend to forget is that He will bring me through my other stuff as well... that for some reason i have a harder time remembering... but as i spoke with a lady today i was reminded again of the power that is in praise... how do you make the enemy flee??? one word... Jesus... praise that name and remember His promises, not my hopes or ambitions and we can make it... is it always easy??? heck no... God is faithful and that ain't no cliche...

Tough spot... need prayer...

So here is my dilema and I may have mentioned this before... Ministry vs. Money... i am not even sure if it comes down to that, but things are tight and the thing that stresses me about no money is that it means no time with my boys... THAT SUCKS!!! if i were to pray specifically on this issue i would hope God provides a job for me during the day so i can continue to help with the local churches youth ministry as well as my ministry at the boys and girls club...

my latest hurdle is that i have been talking lately with legal representitive of a bank that covered part of my student loans... basically it come down to this... if they do not get their $26,000 by the end of the month they are taking me to court... now there is an alternative... this lawyer offered to cut my loan by about 12 or 13,000 dollars if i can get a co-signer and start making payments... (cheap ones too) but at this point there is no one who is able to helpe me in the matter... prayer is appreciated and advice is genuinely appreciated too... i would not even post this if i were not in such a pickle, but i need help... humbling spot to say the least...

~scottie~