Great Trip!

Donna and I got to slide away for a very long weekend in Fort Walton with some great friends! TOOOO much fun! We left late Friday afternoon and drove straight through and got there just after midnight! Full beach days for Saturday, Sunday and Monday with just a few late afternoon thunder showers! The water, weather, food, and company were all amazing! Very "interlectural" conversations! Three great restaraunts! The weekend could not have been any better!
Back to the daily grind today! Business has been good around the office, which is an answered prayer! Still nervous about the very near future, but still praying for great things and for God to show up big!
Rested and relaxed and ready to go!
C

Back to normal!!

Well, the last of the campaign signs came down last night. Everything is wrapped up in a neat little bow and done. Well, of course except the emotion of it all, which will take longer I am sure! I hope God will use this experience to open some more doors!!

Donna and I are sliding away with some friends for an extended weekend of fun, sun, and sand!! I can't wait and we need it!! We haven't taken a trip just us in a while!! No kids, just adult time! Excited does not cover it!! LOL.

All of our Wednesday night church events start back tonight, including choir! I can't wait!

Donna is having a little surgery and we just got the date! Sept 2nd. Keep her in your prayers! She is relieved to have an answer to pain she has been having for YEARS! I don't like the idea of the surgery, (just scared, I guess) but it will be wonderful to have a pain-free wife!!

Bailey is getting ready to start the softball season, and we can't wait!!

Anyway, no more running around in the evenings dealing with signs or knocking on doors of strangers!! Everything seems back to normal!!

C

Humbling

I don't recall asking God to make me more humble, but.....
Picking up signs we have put out during the campaign is not very much fun! Downright humbling. Painful. Thought provoking. I will be doing this a few more days I imagine, but last night it was good for me to help clear my head. I was beating myself up a little; thinking "if this" or "if I had done that" etc. A LOT OF LEARNING STILL TO COME, I am quite sure!!
Anyway, I rode around getting signs in Euharlee and Taylorsville, and tonight I'll be heading someplace else to do that!!
Work is actually great right now, and I am happy to be busy!
Looking forward to a couple of days off later in the month!!
C

Really

Absolutely no post in forever that had any teeth to it. So I really do not know where to begin to update!

Last night went MUCH quicker than the primary. I guess smaller number of candidates, combined with smaller turn-out gives way to much quicker results! We lost. 131 votes separted us. Shep did great through-out the whole campaign! To be a first time candidate, he did amazing! I doubt anyone wants to see his name on a ballot against them!!

It was also my first time doing this. I know that I will be my own worst critic, but there are many things I did wrong, that I am (and will be for weeks to come) sorting through and marking down as lessons learned.

My emotions are as raw as they could be. Tough day to have to be "faking it" at work! I feel that I've let Shep down. There are going to be plenty of lessons to "glean" from this, and the ones I learn will make me better at that job. It was fun, tough, exciting, and exhausting.

I have been through all the emotions as you can imagine today. I have been angry mostly, but in the long run, the things that have made me angry, will probably be the things that taught me the most! For that I am thankful.

For the experience, I am thankful.

For the wonderful volunteers, I am thankful.

I am sure over the next few weeks I will add stories "from the trail", but for now, this is all I can give you!!

C