God's little miracle

About four months ago the kids and I where out walking one day and we saw all these caterpillars crawling up this wall. They were black, had yellow dots with spikes on them. Tabitha tried to grab one but it spooked her because of the spikes. I grabbed one for her and we took it home. We put some leaves and stick in a large tin and put it in. I looked up the name for it and made sure it was a butterfly and not a moth. I found out they climb until they find a place to make their cocoon. As soon as I read about it I went and looked at it and it had crawled out on the floor. I put it back in the tin and put it on top of the turtle's tank. Later I looked and it was gone. The kids had been doing their homework so they were not messing with it. So I preceded to look for it everywhere, later the kids tried to help but we had lost it. So some caterpillar is crawling around our home and could die.
About a month later the kids and Sabrina went shoe shopping and I just sat down at the computer to check on my fantasy baseball and whoosh the little black blurr comes out from under the table which holds the turtle tank. I turn and look and there it is... God's little miracle flying around my home. It flew to the window and rested. It had just hatched from it's cocoon and it was still getting strength for it's wings.

I left it until the kids came home and I showed them the butterfly. It was so cool because we thought we lost it and it had died somewhere. But we got to see one of God's cool miracle of creation and how he made a spiky caterpillar into a beautiful butterfly. In all his power he made a small beautiful thing for us all to see.

I then gently took it and let it go outside on a tree. The cool thing was Tiana and I just saw one or the same one again yesterday. So it reminded me it write about it. It also reminded me that God loves us so much that with such a insignificant thing in this world, he cares for, us too. It seems crazy to me when I think of what God has done for me and for others. Why can't others who don't believe see that too? Well I will live my whole life out telling others about God, his miracles, his sacrifice and his love. May it be a butterfly or a child's sweet kind words of love that sets a heart toward God.
Here is a picture of it before I released it:



Men cannot say they do not know about God. From the beginning of the world, men could see what God is like through the things He has made.This shows His power that lasts forever. It shows that He is God. (Romans 1:20 New Life Version)

Wow it's been a while

Well I have a ton of posts I would love to write about but I am procrastinating and I am busy, busy. Anyway, I have been busy this Summer with everything. I am doing things with the family (adventures everywhere), church stuff, coaching soccer (yeah I know, I don't like it but I can coach it) and misc. I also challenged my niece to read the whole New Testament in 6 months and I am going to read the whole Bible. She gets a snazzy t-shirt if she does it and another if I don't finish. Well check more for later if you care.

Results of loser contest

Well last time I check, which was the day we had to weigh in on the "Are you a bigger loser than Marko", I weighed in at 200 and I ended up in 15th place (in men's , 25th overall). Out of all the people (176 of them), I placed pretty high. I will continue to try losing weight and exercising though. I would like to get to 190 at least. My wife says my chest is back to being bigger than my gut so that's good, I guess. Will all my muscle I still look big, but people who see me constantly have notcied I have lost weight or say I looook gooood (as someone put it).

I won movie tickets to Expelled

About two weeks ago I got this e-mail about a contest to win tickets to Expelled. So I entered it but the e-mail adress was wrong and I noticed they purposely spelled gmail wrong so I resent it with the correct adress and I won two tickets to Expelled. Free tickets are always awesome. It was movie I wanted to see, so now I can, without paying an arm and a leg to go see it. IF you don't know about the movie check out my previous blog I commented about it.

Weight loss

I don't know if anyone read this or cares. I am down to 204. But....Sabrina bought a new scale and I actually weigh 211. So I guess I was heavier before and I am not closer to 200. I am a bit disappointed but I am still going to keep trying.

Week 5 of losing it

Well I am down to 210 but I don't see then difference. Maybe the scale is off or something. I know that I will be big, but hopefully my gut will go away. I wish I could drop muscle but it's pretty impossible to do that. My muscle was great to have when I was young but no point now. If I reach 200 I'll be happy. That's my first goal.

10 years!!

Sabrina, my love: We have been together for 10 years!! 10 years of growing together in our relationship. 7 (almost 8) have been as husband and wife. It's been a great 10 years and I am glad you are mine and I am yours.