The Simple Life

So I was driving down the road the other day with the windows rolled down and my beautiful wife sitting next to me.  We were both wondering out loud like Whinnie the Pooh used to do while sitting on his thinking log as the radio was drifting from one annoying person to the next.  Then the song "Where I'm From" came on and it got us thinking...How great would it be to live in a place like that song?? The quarterback dates the homecoming queen, the truck's a Ford, and the tractors green... I've come to realize in the past few days, and while falling asleep listening to the waves crash against the beach that most of us already do live in a place like that.  Follow me on this... I may not climb on top of a tractor everyday or ride a horse to work, or even talk with a southern drawl (though my ya'll pops up every now and then) but thats not the point.  I have an amazing wife, a loving family, and life isn't about where you live its about the Lord you serve and the company you keep.  I'll be the first to admit that I don't talk to my friends or family as much as I should, but there is one thing about my family (Holz's, Delfino's, Van Wyk's, Stubbe's, Hearn's, Avery's, Pincus's, Rollin's, Roselle's, Palmer's, anyone else I missed)...you get us together and we'll blow any reality tv show out of the water!  There's guaranteed to be food (Hopefully as my favorite Paula Deen would say "Will put some South in your mouth) and the rest always just tends to happen.  Rachel (my wife) always asks how I am always able to let things that should drive me crazy just roll off my back.  Behind any negative thing that could ever come out of my family is a love that is unconquerable.  John told us that "God is Love" but people are driven crazy trying to wonder why tragedies happen if that is true.  I've done plenty of thinking about this...Pastors and counselors and everyone else has their own opinion, but mine is this..tragedies and sadness and negatives and all that other junk are a painful reminder to us that beneath all of that, He is Love and that love is the driving force that causes families to stick through the thick and thin and ask ourselves...When is the next pig roast baby???

Until next time (Hopefully soon)
Andy