As 2022 is coming to a close, i sit here looking back and what 2022 was like.

January 2022: Started off with me being at John Wood 16 years, and then it turned and got really cold the rest of the month. had a couple of snow days in there.

February 2022: Kate and i went to Columbia for one night to a very nice hotel in downtown to celebrate Valentine’s Day. A week later on my birthday we went down to STL to spend the night as the next day i took her to the airport so she could go to Dallas for a work trip. My birthday was a very nice day with awesome weather, but a few days before it was nasty cold\ice. I also learned during that time to become a travel agent for her as DFW was shutdown the day she was suppose to return. I cancelled and rebooked hotels, and helped her get home.

It was also on this work trip for Kate that and the rest of the HR Covid Team for getting Support Team of the Year!!So proud of you sweetheart. I know the last 24 months have been a lot for you personally, professionally, as well as us as a couple because of Covid.

March 2022: The beginning of March brought news to the JWCC Community that our president will be retiring at the end of the calendar year. The president was in their current position the last eight years. I also started to volunteer for our church’s production team with assisting with running ProPresenter and running camera.

April 2022: Took Kate to a local college to see a production of Little Women. Finally, Easter at our own church!

May 2022: Kate and I celebrated our 9th wedding anniversary on May 4th. Once again, it spent it in Carbondale, IL at a cabin that we have been to before. However this time, there was another cabin that was more secluded that we booked. It was very nice and quiet (and more in the woods). It was on this trip that i had Captain D’s for the very first time. (This coming after two failed attempts to find lunch and Kate saying “you never had Capatin D’S?” We bookend our trip for a night in STL. A few days after our trip, a new Ryobi 40v lawn mower showed up And after using it all season, it was a good move and a good purchase. Also in May we sold items at the annual JWCC Community Yard Sale. Afterwards, we went to Panda Express, and that was the first time I had Chinese food. (Mom you will be proud!) We switched from city-owned garbage pickup to Republic Services.

June 2022: Parents were in the area camping for the weekend, so Dad and brother came over to asssit with a couple of projects (and i ended up getting my yard mowed because my brother wanted to check out the new mower). My grandpa turned 95! Still will not stop moving around…

July 2022: Went to my first baseball game since Pandemic (Springfield Cardinals). Went to Dallas with Kate on her work trip (Which ended up to to be her final work trip with the company). On this trip was another first for me: eating Chipotle Mexican Grill. Good stuff, similar to Qdoba but different. It was also vey hot that week. Flew back into STL and spend the night, because that next day was Kate’s wonderful birthday where we did whatever she wanted. A few days later found out it flooded in STL and shut down of the interstates we drove on.

August 2022: Men’s grill night at Madison Park. It was also during this month that both kate and i got free soap for a year (one soap bar\month). Don’t ask!! 😉 😉 It was also during August the I was part of the search committee for our next president. The entire process was interesting.

September 2022: After 16 /2 yrs Kate moved on to a new adventure, in a completely new industry, in a different position, and is going back to an office setting every day (instead of being a remote worker, which she did before it was cool)! She is a Retention Specialist and working with First Generation students

Interviews for the next president took place. We interviewed 8, and recommended 3 to the board. Interviews took almost three days.

October 2022: Went to Columbia to meet up with Kate’s parents and i can tell you i saw too many variations of pumpkins . It was also in October that Culver Stockton had their home coming weekend, and since Kate works there, she thought it good to go to see some of her students.

November 2022: Celebrated our 10th Engagement proposal anniversary. It this point, it still does not get old when not only to you have pictures to celebrate it, but also on video! It was also during the month that i helped a friend out with his leadership conference and did another thing for the first time: made coffee. I have never drank coffee before or made coffee. But the responses i got back were like i have done this for years but it also helped that the directions were amazing (thanks to the First Impressions Team at Madison Park who came up with those). Came home from the conference with Patrick Lencioni’s new book: the 6 types of working genius. Finally ended up with thanksgiving with Family.

December 2022: Saw the Piano Guys in STL. Took the 6 types of working Genius assessment.** Spent time with family at Christmas, and ended up having Covid again (after thinking i actually had strep). Which means we will no be going on NYE to dinner or celebrate with friends.

Looking forward to 2023 to see what it has to offer!

Seth

** = my working genius are ET
my working competency are WD
my working frustrations are IG

I thought i was going to have a slow, and enjoyable weekend for once doing very little, however all that changed when i got home from work.

Around 4pm, a small storm rolled through the area, and most of us didn’t think most of it as we were watching it at work. We just thought a little wind, rain, thunder does not hurt. About 30 minutes later, i receive a call from church asking about Sunday, and i answered the questions. She said i would have emailed you, but we don’t have any power right now. She asked me if i had power and i said since i’m still at work we do but we also have a generator that will kick in if we do lose power.

I leave and go home, and my garage door won’t open. I’m thinking my battery is dead. I tried a couple of times before i realize i have no power. To confirm this, i walk in my house and my UPS battery backup is going crazy. So, i decide to call church to see just what time they lost power, and they said around 4pm. So i’m thinking it’s going on one hour, and i just bought groceries a couple of days ago, my frig and freezer are full, what to do? Call my parents to see what the timeframe is before i should start moving inventory out and they said couple of hours.

To make a long story short, i moved 85% of the stuff out and took it to my parents and as of right now, i am one of the 6,000 people still without power. I have a co-worker in my subdivision and they are still without power but have a neighbor who let them borrow a generator. I told her if you get power this evening, give me a call. Otherwise, i would like to call you to see if power came back on.

So, that’s my fun so far this weekend.

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Have you ever wondered just what the “big picture” is that the Bible is supposedly teaching? To answer that question, the Creation Museum opened in Florence, Kentucky in the spring of 2007. It features a ‘walk through history’ based on the theme “7 C’s of History.” Since many people do not know what those 7 C’s entail, here is Stacia Mc Keever of “Answers in Genesis” to explain more.

“The 7 C’s of History’ is a catchy phrase that helps people remember the big events that have affected (or will affect) the universe: Creation ,Corruption, Catastrophe, Confusion, Christ, Cross, Consummation“.

God created in six normal-length days around 6,000 years ago. His completed creation was ‘very good’ (Genesis 1:31), and all the original animals and the first two humans (Adam and Eve) ate only plants (Genesis 1:29–30). Life was perfect, and not yet affected by the Curse.

God told Adam that he could eat from any tree in the Garden of Eden (Genesis 2:8) except one—the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. He warned Adam that death would be the punishment for disobedience (Genesis 2:17). Instead of listening to the command of his Creator, Adam chose to rebel, eating the fruit from the tree (Genesis 3:6). Because our holy God must punish sin, He sacrificed animals to make coverings for Adam and Eve, and sent the first couple from the garden, mercifully denying them access to the Tree of Life, so that they would not live forever in their sinful state.

Adam’s sin ushered death, sickness and sorrow into the once-perfect creation (Romans 5:12). God also pronounced a curse on the world, changing it completely (Genesis 3, Romans 8:20–22). As a result, the world that we now live in is merely a decaying remnant—a corruption—of the beautiful, righteous world that Adam and Eve originally called home. The good news is that, rather than leave His precious handiwork without hope, God graciously promised to one day send a Redeemer who would buy back His people from the curse of sin (Genesis 3:15).

As the descendants of Adam and Eve married and filled the earth with offspring, their wickedness was great (Genesis 6:5). God judged their sin by sending a global Flood to destroy all men, animals, creatures that move along the ground, and the birds of the air (Genesis 6:7). Those God chose to enter the Ark—Noah and his family, and land-dwelling representatives of the animal kingdom—were saved from the watery catastrophe. This earth-covering event has left its mark even today. From the thousands of feet of sedimentary rock found around the world, to the ‘billions of dead things buried in rock layers’ (aka ‘fossils’), the Flood reminds us even today that our righteous God cannot—and will not—tolerate sin, while the Ark reminds us that He provides a way of salvation from sin’s punishment. The rainbows we experience remind us of God’s promise never again to destroy the earth with water.

After the Flood, God commanded Noah and his family—the only humans left in the world—and the animals to fill the earth (Genesis 8:17). However, the human race once again disobeyed God’s command and built a tall tower, which they hoped would keep them together (Genesis 11:3–4). So, around 100 years after the Flood waters retreated, God brought a confusion](a multiplicity) of languages in place of the common language the people shared, causing them to spread out over the earth. From these various groups are descended all the tribes and nations in the world today. Despite what you’ve been led to believe about our seeming superficial differences, we really are all ‘one blood’ (Acts 17:26)—descendants of Adam and Eve through Noah and his family—and all, therefore, in need of salvation from sin.

Our salvation comes through Christ, the Creator God who stepped into history to become a man who would do what the first Adam did not do—live a perfect life in obedience to the Father (1 Corinthians 15:45–49). He was the Redeemer who had been promised 4,000 years earlier and who came to save the world from sin by dying on the Cross and rising three days later—paying the death penalty for those who receive His free gift of eternal life (Romans 6:23).

Those who have repented and placed their faith in the finished work of Christ look forward to the consummationof all things in the future, when the Curse will be removed and God will provide the new heavens and the new earth for His children. There will be no death or mourning or crying or pain (Revelation 21:4).

So, that’s a summary of the message our guests will experience as they make their way through the museum. We’ll also be providing details of how true science confirms that biblical account of history, and we’ll be answering the skeptical claims leveled at the Bible time and again. Our hope is that this museum will challenge non-Christians to receive Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord, equip Christians to better evangelize the lost, and exalt Jesus Christ as Creator, Redeemer and Sustainer.

So, that’s a summary of the message our guests will experience as they make their way through the museum. We’ll also be providing details of how true science confirms that biblical account of history, and we’ll be answering the skeptical claims leveled at the Bible time and again. Our hope is that this museum will challenge non-Christians to receive Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord, equip Christians to better evangelize the lost, and exalt Jesus Christ as Creator, Redeemer and Sustainer.

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