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Wednesday, July 28, 2004

A Good Feeling

Right now, as I write this, I am having one good feeling. The hug of my ladi is one thing that I have missed a good deal of for a few weeks now and it is very good to have her here. Yea, I know this sounds like I am bragging, but I missed her a lot and I am glad that she can be here with me just enjoying the night. Ok, so why am I on the computer, well, I dont get to sleep for a hour or so, so I am running time by typing up some things that I would normally do at this hour.

Dont worry, I am leaving now to enjoy the rest of this hug.
~Peace

Monday, July 26, 2004

A Rest Day

Today is the first of a few days that I am taking off after a busy summer. That is not to say that my summer is over, just that I am finally getting a vacation during it. I have played the role of bump on a log and haven't grown one bit.

In other news, many of you know that I like handheld computers. There are a slew of new handhelds coming out today by HP. Check out BargainPDA for more information there about them. If you are in the market for a new handheld, or looking just to upgrade, or even to see what all the hoopla is about, check it out.

Football is just about to start. My team, the Eagles is getting ready to open camp. Three times they have made it to the NFC championship game to be knocked out. Maybe this year will be it. I hope so.

Well, that is about it for me. I am going back to watching TV and resting. Cya when I cya. Peace.

Sunday, July 25, 2004

Just a Personal Note

One of the things that I like about the Internet is that one can be as personal and candid as he or she would want to be. Today, I spill. Please do not ask me why I am doing it like this, but call this my record of what I see.

A Personal Note
To whom I am concerned for;
I just am writing to say that I do think about you, even though I may not call or write as often as you want. You are in my prayers and cares, and I remain confident that all of your needs God will supply. I am writing to say that beyond our arguments, I do care and love you. There is nothing that I would hold back from you, because I care that you would love me for me. I would like to be the best friend you ever known. I am just not always capable of doing all that I want to do. Please accept me for my flaws. Though I try to crawl thru some situations, I will make it thru in due time thru it all. It is a shame that I am told that I am dishonest, and that I am boastful. I wish that I were not as such, but if you tell me gently, I will grow. I am sorry that my attitude was not where you would want it to be. If I offended, it is becasue I do not understand. Give me an example of where I messed up and how I can improve. I do not mean to hurt, I just help sometimes a bit too much. If I stuffed Jesus down your throat, I am sorry. I am only in love with a dude that said that he would show me how to love. Today, I was scared to fly on the plane, becasue I did not want to come back to where I stay. afraid that the plane door would fly open from beside me, and that I would die not having said that I really do adore, love all of you. If you want to know what brought me to this point, it was the fact that I care too much to let folks go. I wish that you would not leave. But, i understand that you do have needs. Please take my blessing with you. I will not stay here, but I will go to where God leads me. If you sense differently, please just keep me in prayer. I will go towards my heart's desire. I hope to find your love on my way there. To be honest, I am sad. There is not much joy for me today. The hug I wanted from you was so far away. I hope that you would return to me and hug me the way that love used to. So for me, let me leave within God's hands this care. My concern for us would be this, that no matter where life leads us; that love between would never be missed.

Thursday, July 22, 2004

Today is Thursday and I am still in NC. I have chosen today to visit UNC @ Chapel Hill. It is a very beautiful campus. Of course, when you get lost, you tend to get a good opportunity to see the whole campus. I usually pride myself on having a good sense of direction. Today though, my sense of direction kept getting me turned around in all directions. I started off by not even staying near the campus. I walked nearly a mile from it before I realized that I was not going the right direction. I then walked back to the center of Chapel Hill (the top of the hill), and from there got directions. Its a shame becasue I have now gone from North Campus, to West Campus, now I am at East Campus and I have to walk back to the top of the hill. A long set of walking, but I at least got to take in a budding campus. When I get back to Ms. Elaine's later today, I will be plenty tired. I need to find a hoptspot and just chill for the rest of the day. I think that is very much a recommended course of action. Until the next check in, keep a map at all times. Peace.

Tuesday, July 20, 2004

Well, I am now in NC and today I spent most of the morning at Duke University. I am looking to possibly start school there in Fall of 2K5. I do not know if I will be able to make it, but I am trusting God that things will fall into place. I know that towards the end of my dream last night that there was a song that played in my head. It is called "There is a God" by the Detroit Experiment. That is what I worked with today as I walked around the campus. Man, that campus is pretty, but it would reek havoc on my allergies in the Spring. Oh well, nice school and nice program in the Divinity School. we will see what happens.

So far, I do not have any plans for tomorrow. But that could change after I take a nap. I got a great deal of info today and need time to look at it. Back to the homework now. Until later. Peace.

Sunday, July 18, 2004

Website Updates

Hello all; once again, you can see that I have updated my website. This time I pitched a lot of the previous design, and looked off of a template to do some of what it is that I was looking to do. I have also added a means for me to post from email, so I can stay more on top of things here. I do hope that you appreciate the change in design, as I am trying to keep the front page simple, and really let loose on the rest of the site.

In other news, my best friend Trevor and his fiance Toia were married yesterday in York, PA. I served as best man, and have to say that I am plenty tired today. They had been waiting a long time for this and I am glad to see them both reach this goal in life together. I wish them many blessings (or little ones [wink]) in the future.

Finally, I am on my way to Chapel Hill, NC to visit a friend and see what jobs and life is like down there. I do need a change from PA and so if things are right, I will be relocating down to that area. I think that when I get down there that I will go back to school as well. Looking at getting my Master's in Christian Ministry. There is nothing more to say now. Just keep me in prayer.

God is Great

Hello all; I had mentioned earlier that my uncle Kraig had been in the hospital. Well, I am pleased to report that he is doing much better and that he is home and recovering. Below is the text from the emails that I received from my Auntie YoYo that pretty much sums up what has happened that makes all of use feel so much better about prayer and the ability of doctors to truely hear the voice of God. Read it for yourself and realize the same.

Sent on 7/7
Dear Friends,

Thank you for praying.

On Tuesday, June 29th we went to the doctorâ€™s office because Kraig was losing blood intermittently.
The doctorâ€™s office sent us to the emergency room because Kraigâ€™s blood levels were low. Another blood test at the hospital showed another drop in blood levels. Kraig was admitted to the hospital just after midnight Tuesday night/Wednesday morning.

About 12:30am Wednesday night/Thursday morning, I received a telephone call at home. Kraig had lost a lot of blood in a very short time. The nurses, for a time, could not get a pulse nor a blood pressure. He was being moved to the Critical Care Unit.

The doctors checked the entire gastrointestinal tract every way they knew how in order to locate the source of the bleeding. During the many bleeding episodes, Kraig would lose a lot of blood in a very short time. There have been many transfusions. Test after test came back negative. On Saturday evening, the 7th procedure indicated something in the left colon. The surgeon on the case came in and explained that Kraig was going for another procedure during which time a tube would be inserted into the left colon. If there were another bleed, medicine would be injected through the tube that would seal the blood vessel, stopping the bleeding. In the event that this did not work, surgery was the next option. Kraig asked the surgeon if he believed in prayer. The surgeon said yes. Kraig asked him if he would pray. The surgeon said yes. The surgeon asked for wisdom, guidance and if their plan was not accurate that the Lord would correct the plan. The tube was inserted.

There was another bleeding episode Saturday night. The medication was given through the tube.
Kraig and I were together all night, praying. Something rose up in Kraigâ€™s spirit â€“ there was strength, determination and purpose that I had not heard before. â€œIt is done.â€

Then another bleed happened Sunday morning about 6:30am. The surgeon was only a few feet away. He was not happy â€“ the medication did not stop the bleeding. The next step was to remove the left colon. The surgeon was not convinced that the bleeding was in the left colon, but that was the only area in which something once appeared. He called the team together to remove the left colon. The surgeon prayed with us and left the unit. Immediately, someone was outside the room to take Kraig to the Operating Room and the anesthesiologist was before us explaining what his role would be.
Before the anesthesiologist was finished, the surgeon came back onto the unit and called the surgery off. After consulting with the head of the nuclear medicine department, the surgeon said that the targeted area would not be the left colon but the small intestine.

A short while later, another procedure was scheduled. A second endoscopy was planned for 10am, looking for the bleeding source in the beginning of the small intestines. If the aberrant blood
vessel began to bleed during the scope, the doctor would inject medication to seal the vessel.

Before 11am, the surgeon and radiologist came to me very excited. They reported to me that they had identified the source of the bleeding. While the endoscope was inside of the duodenum, a blood vessel in the wall of the small intestine began to bleed. They injected a medication that is effective in sealing blood vessels. If bleeding were to happen again, Kraig would go to surgery to have the blood vessel â€œtied offâ€. The mystery was solved. The source of the bleeding was located.
The doctors left me and I celebrated with family.

Moments later, the surgeon came back to me. The two of us had a moment of conversation. His words were, â€œThis was an answer to prayer.â€ After talking with us about removing the left colon, he left the unit. â€œI shuddered with the presence of the Lord. I received a word of knowledge that it was not the colon but the duodenum.â€ So he called the head of the nuclear medicine department and asked him to review all the pictures that were taken and to look at the duodenum. The nuclear medicine doctor agreed. Thatâ€™s why the surgeon called off the surgery to remove the left colon. Yeh, GOD!

On Monday morning about 1:30am, I received a call from the hospital. Another bleeding episode.
They were taking Kraig to the operating room. Moments after I was at Kraigâ€™s side, the surgeon arrived. We prayed. They took Kraig to the OR. The surgical team prayed. At 4:50am, the surgeon came and said everything went fine. He â€œover-sewed the areaâ€ to stop the blood vessel from leaking. Then, he said, â€œI shuddered. That word of knowledge, â€˜Stop the pressesâ€™â€. I asked if he had ever received a word of knowledge about an operation before. He said, â€œYes, but this was powerful, powerful.â€

There has been no more bleeding. There is color in Kraigâ€™s face again. His blood levels are increasing. He is stronger. Tuesday night, about 7pm, Kraig was moved from CCU to a room. We anticipate having him home before the weekend.

Update on 7/9
Hello Friends,

Thank you for continuing to pray.

Kraig is improving. Yesterday, he took his first steps in days. It was a family walk down the hall at the hospital.

Tomorrow (Friday), he is allowed ice chips!

The surgeon is moving slowly with Kraig. Kraig will not be home this weekend. We are looking at early next week.

Update on 7/16
Dear Friends,

Monday morning in the hospital my doctor asked whether I wanted to go home. I had been waiting for that question and immediately and enthusiastically replied, â€œYES!â€ and was on my way home in a few hours. Now that Iâ€™m away from the hospital I can finally get some rest!

This is the first time since this ordeal began that I have been able to communicate with you personally. I am grateful that Yolanda kept you updated on my condition. I especially want to let you know that I appreciate you and thank you for your fervent prayers for me. We donâ€™t always get to see the effects of our prayers, but your prayers went up with others around the world and led to the doctor receiving a specific â€œword of knowledgeâ€ that kept me from an unnecessary major surgery and led him to the true source of the problem.

For now I can say that I am happy to be alive and back with my family. The time was intense and we were shaken to the very core of our beings. Weâ€™re still a bit stunned by all this, but we can see that Godâ€™s hand was in this from the start and His purpose was deep. Weâ€™ve only begun to sort that out. There is no rational explanation for this, and I donâ€™t say this lightly, but as intense as our experience was, we were at peace through it.

For the next 6-8 weeks my job is to rest and heal. My body has been through a major trauma and that takes time to recover from. Weâ€™ll reflect and listen to what God is saying through this. And weâ€™ll enjoy each day that we do have that much more.

Thank you for your friendship and love,

Kraig
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I hope that what you all see here is good enogh evidence of the greatness of God. Uncle Kraig, recover in due time. Love ya bro.

Tuesday, July 13, 2004

Website Updates

Here I am again with the website updates. As stated last week, I am in the process of redesigning the whole website. Today, I have uploaded the nearly complete versions of the About Me and Portfolio pages. I will work mainly on the Portfolio page now, as that will be the easiest to add links. The only parts left for the About Me page are the poems and the picutes. I know that there will be a user selectable picture gallery (to keep everyone from having to wait thru a download). But other than that, I am not sure of what else that I will be doing there but pics. The poems will be a little more complicated in that I will not have as many poems as I did before. I will only do about three or four per collection. I will also have a downloadable version of the one collection that there is no samples for.

Sounds like a lot of work, but it is just what I do to keep busy. One has to hone their talents and then try new things. All that I have to say for that end is watch out for the Website Deisgn and PDA sections. I am looking to keep the base, but extend the design to cater more towards those markets. Stay tuned. In the mean time, just read the comics.

Monday, July 12, 2004

Blessed

Today is a Monday; a Monday. There is nothing great about the rain today other than the blessing of today. I am tired, though I am content. I am weary after teaching and consulting. There is a workshop going on now, and there are not a lot of kids here, but I can tell that they are blessed by the speaker. I have yet to eat, and I have yet to take a nap or time to myself. But, I am blessed. There are others that would like to be in m shoes, and there are others that I would like to be. I am blessed. No reason to compain of the rain or strange folks. So if I look weird, or even if I write strange. It is only becasue I am coming to grips with the fact that I am blessed.

I would hope that you get blessed too.

Sunday, July 11, 2004

A Week To End

I am just resting thru this first part of the weekend and realize how kool and how much work it is to just try to take a break. Between running errands, and playing bball with a 3 year old; today was much less a break, and much more like a day at work. I hope that this is not going to be too much more common. I really need to have a day off. Hopefully, that will come soon.

Love you Coffee Bean :-)

Thursday, July 08, 2004

Whassup from da Ville

Here I am chatting from Ville on my laptop. I am working on my webstie right now. It is a little more work than I imagined, but I think that you will be pleased with the result. I am going with a less cluttered look, but one that is also more useful than what I have going on right now. Also, instead of releasing the whole site at once, as some websites do, I will be releasing it in sections. I hope to have the About Me section done by the end of next week. I am not sure how I will do the picture gallery, but that will be up when I have the rest of the About Me section up. In the meantime, check out what is there. Much of it will not be changning immediately, but I will add some new prose in there.

Tha-tha-that's all folks.

Wednesday, July 07, 2004

Day oh Day

Hello Today;

You have been good to me today. Linner (lunch and dinner) was great. Kyera is a great cook and you will have to replay that one. The Upward Bound kids were a bit of a trip; some of them just need to listen and read directions. There are some talented ones though. I would like to see how they end out. Got back to Damond's place as fast as anything. Making a half and hour ride into a 25 minute one is a sweat and threat. I should be plenty tired tonite. Finally; read that my Uncle Kraig is going to recover. That is some of the best news that I could have had. Today, you have been a lively present. I look forward to seeing you again.
~Peace

Tuesday, July 06, 2004

Congrats Wade!

Just want to send a congrats to my brother and friend Wade. He and his teamates for the Alantic City Cardsharks will be going to the playoffs. I wait to see if fwe can celebrate a championship bro. Congrats to all on the team.

Sunday, July 04, 2004

GMail Introductions Please

Hello again all. I am just announcing that I have been invited to try Google's GMail. It is a nifty web-based email service. Its main competitors are Yahoo and Hotmail. I have a Yahoo account and have been extremly pleased with it. The big call for GMail is the space. You get so much space, that you do not have to ever delete anything. I guess that is a good idea. In times past, I have either deleted email after a year, or just deleted them immidiately if it was a forward or something that I would not use again. GMail has a kool shortcuts feature so that all you have to do is type a letter and you get certain commands, like compose, archive, reply, etc. Very nice. I will make my GMail addy availiable to my friends and all when I get some settings handled there. Until then, check out the preview at gmail.google.com and have fun.

Prayer Request

Hello all;

I would like to ask that you all reading this would keep my Uncle Kraig in prayer. He was admitted into the hospital a few days ago, and as of yet, I do not know what the problem was. I was told that there have been many test, but the doctors have not found what the issue is yet. Please keep him, my Auntie YoYo and their 3 month old daughter Erin Danielle in your prayers.
Thanks in advance.
~Peace

Saturday, July 03, 2004

From my Palm

Ok, so now I am happy. This is my first post using my PalmOne Zire71 & the SanDisk WiFi Connect card. Yeaa!

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