Where You Lay Your Head is Just a Question of Pride

I'm leaving home for home. It's a really weird thing to think but I can't help and look at everything I pass now and know that this is the last time I will be seeing it. I can not wait to be back at my home in Florida and embrace the people that I love, but I have been here in Nashville just long enough to really miss it.

I went to church today and had to say goodbye to a lot of people that I really didn't want to have to say goodbye to. I had just played drums the week before and let me tell you, there is no better way to meet the whole church then to simply put yourself on stage in front of them. I have truly grown here at this church and have no doubt that God has put me here to grow so much more then I could have anywhere else at the time. I thanked the pastor and the music director for letting me play. The music director's name is Mike and he is convinced that this is not the last time I will see Nashville.

He has it all planed out for me. He said to go home and marry my girlfriend, have her transfer to Bellmount, and the church will buy a really broken Diesel van for me to work on so that we can move back up here. He has given me two years to do all of this. :)

I don't know about that plan so much but I know that God has a great plan for me and right now that plan is going back home.

Just the day before I worked my last at Valvoline instant oil change. That was a little bit easier to let go of but again, hard to say goodbye to the people that I have come to know there. They were all sad to see me go and didn't make it any easier when Ashley (our sales assistant) made me a goodbye cake.

All in all it has been a great experience being here in Nashville. The roommates that I have had, the school that I have learned at, the church that I have grown in, and the people that I have come to understand and respect all around me.

I truly believe that relationships are the most important thing that one can have in this life. First and foremost with our Lord Jesus, but also with all the people that he has put us on this earth with. What could be more important then the eternal lives of everyone around us? I hope that as a believer I can impact the people around me with the hope and grace that I have been given from my Father above.

I was let go from my first job here in Nashville in January and at the time it was really hard to understand why. Although now I look back, and having to trust God in those times has taught me how to trust him again now, when yet again I quit one job before having landed another. I look at how he used me in the lives of the people I got to work with at VIOC.

My assistant manager has had a hard life of hard choices that had lead him to look inward at what is really going on. And was it just by chance that I was there when he needed someone to answer these questions that God had put in his life? I would be a fool to think so. Sharing with him what I believed could have been worth the whole 13 months that I have been up here.

I can't wait to be home and embrace all the opportunity that awaits me. I have new things to share, new things to do and hopefully a new job to work at. God's timing is so perfect.



Things that I will miss:

1. The church I was at and the people that attend it.

2. The weather (it is a beautiful 69 degrees here today)

3. The people that have impacted me at work and school.

4. The awesome bike trails out here.

5. Fat boys BBQ (So good)

6. The general "Nice-ness" of the City as compared to "Angry-lando"

Things I WILL NOT MISS IN THE TINYEST BIT

1. My apartment and all the stupid people that live in it. (not everyone in it is stupid)

2. Going to school to take things apart and put them together again to no prevail.

3. Not having anything to do on the weekends but laundry and watching dumb movies.

4. Not getting to see my beautiful girl's face when I talk to her.

5. Eating out of a box.

6. Trying to sell air filters.

7. My apartment and the people that live above me.

8. All the stupid fish I can't catch

9. The crazy Nashville girls that seem to throw themselves at me everywhere I go (Starbucks, Publix, Chick-fli-a)

10. My apartment.

Thanks for listening, I will see you all in two school days and seven hundred miles later.