Brady Goes Deep To Moss... ARE YOU KIDDING ME???

What a span of time it has been. Making a blog entry has not been a priority for me and so I haven’t written. Milestones have passed that I could have shared about; General Conference, two different visits from my children and a few discoveries that have given me some tools that are helping me toward a more balanced life. I have not written because I didn’t want to, frankly. That’s okay, the ebb and flow of inspiration for the written word can be somewhat like the tide; in sometimes and far away others.

This past weekend was pretty busy. Amie’s sister Debbie and her family stayed with us from Wednesday night until only a few hours ago; Sunday night. Their family has 5 kids who were all here at different times; sharing time with family and friends. On top of that (more importantly) my girls were here from Saturday morning until this morning at 11am. Marla’s brother was celebrating his graduation from BYU this week so she was in town since Wednesday. I really would have appreciated more time with the girls but instead of arguing with her about it I chose to use whatever time I was given and cherish it seeing that I didn’t have to travel to get them. It was a great to see them even it was for the equivalent of 24 hours. My heart went out to the girls, they didn’t get to have much time here and they both seemed melancholy when I dropped them off to their mother. They weren’t able to adjust in only a day to life here and then had to return so soon. I won’t see them until Memorial Day weekend so their room and my heart will be closed until their return.

This weekend was the 2007 NFL Draft. I have been nuts about football the last couple of years so I was really intrigued by what happened and who picked whom. One of the by-products of this draft was that one of my favorite players, Randy Moss was traded from the Oakland Raiders to the New England Patriots. The Raiders gave away Moss for a 4th round draft pick and Randy agreed to restructure his contract; a pretty interesting move considering that over the next two years Moss was slated to be paid $20 million bucks in salary alone. Just goes to show that although the façade is that all pro athletes care about is money that the lure of a Championship has no price. Moss could realistically lose $10 million bucks with the changes to his contract. That must be some feeling to win a Super Bowl; many athletes have their careers defined by whether or not they’ve won the big game and Moss sure could use one to change the course of where he legacy is headed after these past few years with the Raiders. Regardless this year for football will be great, New England will be TOUGH to handle with all the upgrades they have done to their team this year and it will be cool to see who of the rookies that were chosen will be as good as projected.

I have started the practice of meditating. I take anywhere from 30 minutes to an hour a day and sit in the quiet and ponder things about my life, my goals etc. and focus my energies to help me realize what and who I want to become. I have learned that by making time for this everyday that my life has changed to where my demeanor has slowly been changing to be less quick to anger and more loving and patient in my heart. I think that everyone should make time in their busy lives to live in the quiet for a part of the day. In my thoughts I have found myself questioning everything about what I thought I believed in. I have questioned my core values and who I am and made mental efforts to reinforce the things that I may have told myself I believed but subconsciously didn’t manifest that as a core believe. I have been feeling a great amount of growth in my faith and my understanding about who my Heavenly Father is and what he makes available for his children when the try to understand the characteristics he possess as both our father and God. I think that the difference between believing and knowing starts with the commandment to ponder and without pondering, prayer is useless. How can God talk back if your head is always LOUD?

Anyway, at this rate I will post another entry come November… jk.

Happy Easter...

Here is where I have been lately. I had my children for a week for Easter/Spring Break. It was incredible and I already miss them; one day later. I will publish another entry soon...