missbuss

First and foremost, I am a follower of Christ. And a little further down the list is my love for Craig Hodges. And of course for my family, friends, and all the other people in my life. Then there’s everything else…all the things I do and enjoy which say some things about me, but don’t necessarily define who I am as a person. I'm a sales engineer for a gear company in Lafayette, IN. I deal primarily with custom gearing and underground mining equipment. I like to play sports. I don’t like to watch them, and I’m the only person who ever lived in Indiana that can’t stand the game of basketball and thinks the movie Hoosiers is cheesy and dumb. I also hate the movie Rudy, but that’s a whole other can of worms… I really love theology, philosophy, math, art, and theater. I also love to read, but have a hard time finding time for it. When I left high school I thought college was going to be all about sitting in coffee shops talking about the above. College was a disappointing place in that regard and I have not missed it since the day I graduated. I used to love politics until I started reading about David Lipscomb (the man), Thoreau, and Emerson and realized that I might just be a Christian anarchist. I’ll get back to you and give you a definite answer when I figure myself out there. I have a passion for children’s ministry. I used to think I had a passion for women’s ministry, but then I realized I just don’t. I wish I could spend my entire day coming up with ideas for children’s ministry. I really love Bible camp. I’ve gone since I was 10 and I haven’t missed a year (until this year). I’ve gotten a lot of flack about that from various adults. They say “but it gets these kids up on a spiritual high and then when they come back to the real world they’re disappointed.” I don’t feel that way. If my love toward a child that one week of Bible camp is the only love they see that entire year, it’s worth the spiritual high for them and for me. Bible camp has always been the one place I feel like I have unlimited patience, grace, and mercy toward others. The way I am at Bible camp is the way I’d love to be every day of my life, but unfortunately those are too high of standards for me to live up to. But I keep those weeks in the back of my mind to always remind me of who I truly could be if I just rely on the Spirit a little more and rely on me a little less. Not to mention all of the very wonderful side effects of Bible camp “flings.” It is my firm belief that iTunes is the loveliest invention of all mankind. Podcasts, Utunes, buying one song at a time, free songs…the list of wonder and amazement go on and on. I am a very tense person, although I don’t know what about. Up front, I can’t name one thing I’m stressed about. But I catch myself grinding my teeth and clenching my jaw constantly. I nibble on my cuticles and I can’t float in water because I’m too stiff. I handle problems well and I keep level headed at work when things don’t go well, but I guess there must be something that I stress about. It used to be school. Now I think I might just be tense because it’s all I’ve ever known to be. Pray for me. I want to do Kingdom work but I loose focus sometimes.