Lost At Sea

Day 5 - Switiching already...

for those of you who read this little blog, im moving over to here www.adamintheocean.wordpress.com.

sorry for my fickleness with blog sites and my lack of posts. ill do better.

Day 4 - No sleeping

Sometimes I get in these streaks where I sleep only 3-4 hours a pop and get up. I have no reason why. I have plenty of time alloted for sleeping, I just find myself awake and doing stuff.

My mind stays to active.

Today I read in "So You Wanna Follow Christ" by Charles Swindoll about simplicity and taking those things out of your life that only add more stress. Not every space has to be filled in your planner despite what my job tells me. So I am have vowed to myself to start weeding out what I do not need and hold on to the truly valuable.

First things first -- putting God first. I don't do this enough. I don't read my bible enough. I certainly don't pray enough. I realized today that I give God only my free moments when I am ready instead of offering the best and first of everything.

God has humbled me so much today that I cannot begin to paint it with words.

My faith has fallen short.

I learned a lesson about faith today.

My girl, Ava, is my wife reincarnate. She's fearless, inquisitive, and wonderfully focused when she wants something. She climbed our stairs while my wife was cleaning up from dinner.

Ava fell down everyone of them.

Its hard for me to be thousands of miles away from her and not be able to pick her up and have to read about this in an email.

I have faith in my wife because, no offense to the other mothers, she is the ninja of all mothers out there. But ultimately, I have to have faith in God to protect them because from here....my hands are tied.

God comes first, faith comes first and must be complete. Some of you are saying "Duh Adam, gosh!". Sorry , Im a little headstrong....

God bless all of you on this Sunday....

Day 3 - Bad things are funny...

The following story is true in its entirety:

I was riding in a small rubber rhib boat at 10 o'clock at night, providing security for  my ship.

It had rained on me and my other two guys twice already, tropical torrential downpours that last 10 minutes but nearly drown you.

The flying fish in the water were darting in and out of the ocean almost fearlessly.

So there I sat on my boat, rocking with with the waves, when I stood up to stretch my legs.

And in a flash I was trying to stay upright. Something had hit me directly in the nads.

One of those kamikaze fish had sailed from the water directly into my man region and landed in the boat next to me.

We sat there, looking directly at one another, both gasping for air with the same face.

You had to laugh at the situation well, because everybody that has heard this story has already. So I thought maybe sharing it with ALL of you would be funny too.

But it made me think "God probably has a sense of humor like this".

Day 2 - The Beautiful Game

my watch tells me it is nearly 3 am here. i should be sound asleep or on my way.

but i have too much to talk about.

Manchester United defeated Chelsea in a shootout tonight in the Champion's League final. it is not a big deal for most of us, by that i mean americans. to the rest of the world it is a very important thing.

i watched it in a bar (side-note -- christians in bars is a topic i really want to talk about but not in this post, not with how i feel right now) that was standing room only as the game played itself out on the wall that doubled for a big screen tv.

english, french, australian, african, indian, and americans were all there. for a while none of that mattered. for a while i was a person rooting for chelsea since i really dislike man u and others were people pulling for man u because they really dislike chelsea.

GOD was there. how do i know that? there was an accident outside and everyone ran out to help despite how invested they were in the game. there was no black and white, no rich or poor, only cheers and beers, tears and laughs, smiles and kisses. (who got what and how much isn't really important)

i laughed at all of those people that tell us that we all started as a big bang, then amoebas, then onto fish that crawl onto land and became apes, then onto cavemen and eventually what we are today.

are you serious?

no amount of coincidence can explain how i sat thousands of miles from home, watching a game taking place thousands of more miles away, with alot of people that don't share my language, but yet we all were together at once, sharing and hoping and laughing and crying like old friends.

GOD touched me there. we are all together in this...and its nice to share this life with all of you...

i hope that sometime i can be someplace with you, sharing some experience with you, learning more about how the world looks to you...

pslam 34:14, psalm 34:14, psalm 34:14

*** p.s. thank all of you for your encouragement and comments. all of you are now in my bookmarks and as soon as i figure out how to get a blogroll together your names shall be on my blog for all to see.

Day 1

The first step is the hardest, to paraphrase some wise man (or woman) who said that once.

I have typed and retyped post after post, hoping that something beautiful and amazing would find its way in front of me, something that would make you want to comeback and talk again.

I guess blogging  is like a big conversation. You can enjoy every minute by just listening but its the sharing with others that is life. So I guess am pulling up a chair to the table.

So for those whose words I have read, words that have kept me company during my days at sea and those nights when sleep was elusive, and gave me new ideas and perspectives, thank you for you all of it.

I hope I have some words of my own with which to repay you for yours.

And to those who find themselves here, I hope that God will bless this little project of mine with something for you as well.

More to come...more to come....