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Movie Interests	Love movies, I'm a bit of a movie freak. When I find one I like I dont mind watching it numerous times.
Music Interests	I enjoy christian, country, classical, and some of the current rock
Interesting Quotes	Quote 1: I am not a teacher, only a fellow traveler of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead, ahead of myself as well as of you. - George Bernard Shaw. I find that this is true particularly when others ask my advice, I tend to see that the things that I see in others are often the very things I should apply in my own life.                                                                                                       Quote 2: Life passes like a flash of lightning, whose blaze barely lasts long enough for us to see, while the earth and the sky stand still forever, how swiftly changing time flies across mans face, oh you who sit over your full cup and do not drink, tell me, for whom are you still waiting? -Lucy Swindoll Quote 3: A problem well defined is half solved. -Unknown
TV Interests	Love House, Lost, Heroes and Chuck. I like others too but those are the one's I Tivo. Oh and of course watching the Cowboys rip it up.
Favorite Memories	Probaby backpacking for the first time with my Dad. There are so many things that made that trip awsome. You know that saying "His eyes are bigger than his stomach" well my eyes were bigger than my legs...
Favorite Books	There are so many. Right now the author that I have been reading a lot of is Ted Dekker. Great author and definitely growing and his later writings are better than his earlier writings I think. His masterpiece is the Circle Trilogy which is unbelievably good. His writing has a lot of wisdom and insight though he is a fictional writer.

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Height:	6' 2"
Eye Color:	Green
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About Me: Learning and growing. My job requires that I learn and apply what I'm learning constantly so I tend to approach life the same way. No matter what I read, hear or see I tend to filter, contemplate and either dump it or attempt to see where I can apply it.

I love working with computers, reading, being with the family and fly fishing. I'm learning to love turkey hunting because my oldest son loves it, though we haven't gotten any turkey's yet.

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Bare with me today, this is definitely an unbound thought.

Recently I heard a program on the radio where there was a discussion about the recent discovery (past 40-50 years) of the term self-esteem. The individual talking about it was discussing how embracing the need for self-esteem is in part responsible for the condition of our youth in the world. The desire and the need to feed your Self-Esteem is masking itself with the need to been seen and heard.

According to a Wikipedia definition, in psychology, self-esteem or self-worth includes a person’s subjective appraisal of himself or herself as intrinsically positive or negative to some degree.

I agreed with a point she was making about our seemingly obsessive search for a positive self-esteem. If you listen to your heart, isn’t there something that strikes you about esteeming yourself that is just not quite right?

In a book I’m reading the author states that evil’s primary objective is to destroy the light (God’s influence in things). Evil’s secondary objective is to go unnoticed, so much so that you might not spot evil at work but once out of every 50 occurrences.

Just like most things Satan sets out to do he creates nothing but a cheap imitation of the original. Take for instance God’s love to Satan’s lust, God’s anger to Satan’s Rage or God’s patience to Satan’s complacency. Each of these are only slightly different than their counterparts, but in the end, one leads to glory and the other to death.

Self-esteem I think is one of those imitations of God’s creation. It’s a slightly different slant on self-respect I think. One leaves us feeling valuable and accepted when we look to God, while the other leads us to the complete opposite and ultimately needing to be heard and valued. I think we all seek to be valued and accepted at times. We are all human, we sin and fall short, essentially we are all “bad”, but in Christ we are forgiven and infinitely valuable.

Self-esteem I think is something the world tells us we need. I think God tells us that not only do we not need it but, that it is the opposite of what he wants to give us. We don’t really want to be seen, we really want to be cradled by our Savior.

It only takes a slight movement off course to take us in the end, hundreds of miles from our destination.

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