My Life

This post is the last of my twenties.  In two days, I will hit the 30 mark and have completed 3 full decades of my life.  As I sit here reminiscing on my past and contemplating my future...

I am thankful for the many blessings;  

I am thankful for the adversities;

I am thankful for the safety over the highways;

I am grateful for Paula Faye Parker;  

I am grateful for Robert Nathaniel Parker;

I am grateful to have been raised with good Christian values. 

I love my sisters, my family, my nephew, and my friends;

I love the Steve Urkel glasses, running a race without shoes, and the Airwalks;

I love the memories of Ice Potato Pie, Potato Salad, BBQ, Cut Glass Salad;

I cherish the family dinners and gatherings;  

I cherish my childhood memories, coaches, teammates, and classmates;

I cherish the people that believed in me, even when I could not see it in myself;

I value the opportunities to have many people come through my life for good and well...for bad;

I value my friendships and my relationships with those close to me in life;

I value XXV, Loving Chapel, FSHS Class of '00, the Workshop, the individuals that I worked with that impacted my life.

I appreciate the loves lost and the love found;

I appreciate Franklin-Simpson High School, Centre College, Bowling Green, Morehead, Corbin...everywhere. 

I appreciate my shortcomings/failures and apologize for my mistakes and the hurt that I have caused others.

I treasure the opportunities that life has presented;

I treasure the journeys in my life;

I treasure the pain and hurt in my life.

I miss my father.

I pray that I have became the man that God wants me to be;

I pray that I have became the man that my mother, father, grandmothers, grandfathers, uncles, aunts, and family friends spent the time praying for me to be;

I pray that I have been a positive light to people, a vehicle of change, and a role model.

I am blessed to BE...because of the great I AM;

I am blessed for the times shared with family and friends that are no longer here;

I am blessed to see the eve of my 30th birthday.

I can smile because I know that God loves me.