Even though I'll probably get a "good grief!" from our pastor's wife, Melissa, I'll take my chances and write this blog :). Those that know me know that (as the blog title states) I love my wife very much. Lately, I've been thinking about this a lot, in reference to the fact that while I am so blessed with my wife and marriage... what I have is unfortunately not the norm. Just coming out of Valentine's Day, I thought I'd put my thoughts into words.

There are many things that acquire from our parents or others in our family. Our families pass on genetic traits... whether it be physical appearance, personality, disease, addiction, etc... both good and bad things. There are some things that are taught to us or that we pick up just from the experience of living with our parents and family. Again, they could be good or bad. For example, my dad would do whatever he had to do to win, even against us kids growing up. I find myself in the same boat when playing with my kids. I WILL win the game... no mercy :) Seriously though, while there are characteristics like my example that may be funny, there are some things that are not so funny... often referred to as family curses... that need to be broken.

Okay, so this blog will be a little different than my usual... but I thought I'd get a little "geek" on you :). In this technology-flooded world we live in, every day seems to introduce some new way to accomplish a task that you previously would have handled in a different, less efficient manner. The new solutions generally enable you to get the job done faster, more conveniently, easier, etc. Example... we used to have big books of CDs that we'd put in the car, then dig through them (while driving) to switch CDs in our Discman, which of course had the tape cassette adapter hooked up to run it through the car speakers. Now, we use iPods and put all of our CDs on one small object giving easy access to your favorite music whenever and wherever you want!

Now, we are starting to also see changes with book reading. With the Kindle and the iPad, people are moving towards digital books with many built in features that you'd never get from the paper version... search features, built in dictionary, etc. Not only do you have this for regular books, but also for the most important book... the Bible.

I was recently a part of a discussion where I heard some disturbing comments. This person struggles with their belief in God for various reasons, one of which is the gifts that God gives to each one of us. Basically, they felt shafted because their gift wasn't good enough in their opinion. They didn't understand why God would give one person a better set of gifts than someone else. The problem is that his understanding of spiritual gifts was way off.