I get to go to work.

It has been almost a week since I have written and I have spent thousands of dollars and spoken tens of thousands of words, but have I made a positive difference in others' lives? I am not a philosopher, but I am able to make simple observations. Like-I will not live forever, since everyone dies. I will get older and more feeble, since everyone does. What does this all mean?


I need to cherish my time and the people that I love like Jo and Noah and my family and my few friends.


The Fosters were here tonight and they were interested in looking over my portfolio of properties and the pics that I have taken along the way. I enjoyed showing them the visuals of years of work in just a few moments. The time seems to be a blur when you flip through the pics.



Earlier this week I got a call from a friend who had moved away from Jax about 1yr ago and he is trying to figure out what's next for him and his wife and whether they should move back here from ATL where they are living in a friends basement. He has been trying unsuccessfully to sell his home for about this whole year. I wish I could help him as I know the pain, but the only thing I could really say is that sometimes you have to walk away to be able to move on.

I know that this thinking (accepting premature financial failure to avoid the greater one down the road) flies in the face of others including my wife, but I know it is true. I would rather be graded by history for what I am ultimately able to accomplish for God and others rather than achieve less special thing but have people say when they saw me "he never gave up on anything before he lost everything trying to make something work out." Don't read me wrong, I want to succeed and win the fights, but I would rather quit a fight early and live to fight again rather than die trying to with a lost cause. Everyone must make their own line about what this really means. I would not slide this thinking into marraige as that IS a lifelong commitment (fight for some people-not me). I love my wife and appreciate her and her various convictions and concerns.