Welcome Micah...!

Well...Micah is here. He decided to make his grand entrance about a month ahead of time, and are we ever glad he did. Our beautiful baby Micah is here.

My wonderful wife Michelle did an amazing job. She did not get nervous, she was not timid, she was stoic throughout the morning despite having to have a c-section. This new little human was being delivered as a healthy baby because of Michelle's care and nurture of him over the past nine months.

I'm also thankful for my parents and Michelle's parents who instilled in us the values and life lessons that brought us to this monumental day.

As I look at my new little boy, I swell up with so many different emotions. Right now he is so pure and innocent. He hasn't been contaminated by society as we know it. He is a perfect image of God's beautiful creation. I wish I could keep him this way, in his pure form, but I know he has to grow up...just like we had to grow up, and our parents had to grow up, and their parents had to grow up.

It is now up to Michelle and I to take care of him, and nuture him. To instill in him the same values and life lessons that our parents did in us. To raise him in a way that he is able to see and choose Jesus Christ as his savior as he grows.

My heart already breaks at how fast I know he will grow up, because I grew up to fast. We all do. But as we grow, so does our faith and so do our relationships...that is what makes life beautiful.

I have a lot to learn. I can't change diapers and I don't know how to care for a baby. But I will learn. Just like Micah will learn to grow into a man.

I look at life differently now. I cherish what Michelle has done for this little baby. I cherish how her mom and dad raised her. I cherish how my parents raised me. I appreciate the bonds that they built as parents to their children and only hope to accomplish the same with little Micah. I cherish brothers and sisters who make families so rich.

Life is a little different now. I wish I could stay locked in today, July 12, 2008. I can't. But life will be richer as Micah grows older.

Blessings

Baby Micah's Nursery!

Nacho is Ready to Meet Micah!

Another Baby Shower Pic...

Pictures from Michelle's Baby Shower

Finding Purpose

"Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes real happiness. It is not obtained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worth purpose" Helen Keller

Baby Micah Update

Baby Micah is developing great! We got to see him again at our most recent appointment as our doctor had ordered another ultrasound at our previous appointment. He is growing! 4lbs 9oz! As of right now Michelle is about a week ahead of schedule!

He already loves music, any time we put on a particular song by Brett Dennen he begins to groove! There are a few others that get him moving and grooving!

The past few weekends we've been at Williamson Medical for childbirth classes, I don't think we realized how little we knew. It has been very educational, and surprisingly fun. We just wonder if he is going to be delivered with an instruction manual tied to the end of that cord...

We are starting to get the house ready now, we hope to begin painting soon and following this coming weekend's baby shower we will really begin to get things in order!

We are just excited for little Micah Laine to get here!

Kyle and Michelle

Off to Neverland Travel

Come Alive.

Michelle and I were just at Kroger picking up a birthday cake for someone in our office. Despite past ‘spelling mistakes’ on our cakes from this particular Kroger, we continue to pick up birthday cakes from there.

While we were waiting in line to pay for our cookie cake (which WAS spelled correctly) a manager approached the cashier who was working the line that we were in. A short, somewhat inaudible conversation transpired in which the manager was trying to convince the clerk to commit to working the next day. Due to the thickness of the accent, we couldn’t pick up on a lot of what was being said, except for the last few statements from the manager to the employee.

“You go home. You sleep. You come back work tomorrow.”

As funny as the statement was, given the tone, accent, and demeanor of the manager…it was also sad. The sadness is found in the truth of what that manager spoke; it is the repetitious rut that so many people find themselves in. We work in order to sleep just so that we can come back and work tomorrow.

In having to work to live we have created a society of people who live to work. Our existence becomes nothing more than a placement in a position to achieve a corporate objective.

As Christians, we know we can influence our sphere of people wherever we are, ultimately fulfilling the great commission. THAT is our purpose.

However as humans, we also have desires and dreams within us that make us come alive. How much more so can we ignite others with our passion for God and life when we are doing what makes us come alive?

We need to get after it. We need to pursue what makes us come alive.

If you already are…well done.

Learning Photoshop...

...We'll, I'm starting to learn photshop now. I'm slowly picking up on Dreamweaver and Fireworks, so I figured I better get to know their big brother photoshop.

Not bad for my first time to 'use' the program!

Say Hello to Micah Laine Froman (Don't put your money on the middle name yet!)

What the world needs...

"Don't ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go do that. Because what the world needs are people who have come alive."
Harold Whitman

Surprise, Surprise...

Michelle...



And Kyle...

The Path to Victory

Knowing good and well that I shouldn't have done so, a few hours ago I enjoyed a cup of coffee with a slice of leftover cake. It was great, but now here I sit wide awake...just hoping that 'tiredness' would overtake me soon. In sitting here, I found myself clicking through some old pictures that Michelle and I saved to our computer. One of them made me chuckle...

It was a picture that I snapped at the Mod race in Nashville last year inside of one of the haulers. It was a picture of a white board, with a simple set of instructions on it.

In the middle of the board was a large oval diagram, obviously that of a racetrack. Around the oval were three arrows circling counter-clockwise with "1st" wrote in between each of the arrows. In the middle of the oval drawing was also "1st".

Go counter-clockwise, finish 1st. Sounds like an easy way to get to victory lane doesn't it? If only it were that easy...

Thinking about this diagram brought another 'path to victory' to mind.

I recall Luke 10:25-27 when one lawyer asked Jesus about getting to Heaven, more specifically what he needed to do to gain eternal life. Jesus answered Him, "Love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, strength and mind" and "love others as you love yourself".

What a simple guide. Love God with everything we are, and love others as we love ourselves.

Our faith can become quite intricate, and many discussions could be hadon the topic of salvation, and what it 'takes' to be saved...and I am not discounting all that salvation entails.

However what better way to sum it all up into a two-sentance guide to victory.

If we love God with all of our heart, soul, strength and mind we will obey Him and what He speaks to us through scripture. Not because we have to, rather because we love Him so much that we want to.

If we loved others as we love ourselves, we would share that same hope that we find in Jesus Christ with everyone we come in contact with.

In doing both, we fulfill God's comission in our lives.

The sure-fire path to victory.

Be Blessed this week...
Kyle

Confidence.

"Somehow I can't believe there are any heights that can't be scaled by a man who knows the secret of making dreams come true. This special secret, it seems to me, can be summarized in four C's. They are Curiosity, Confidence, Courage, and Constancy and the greatest of these is Confidence. When you believe a thing, believe it all the way, implicitly and unquestionably." - Walt Disney