Yesterday, Chad Estes brought to my attention that Anne Rice recently made a public statement about her faith that has caused quite a stir. I read Chad’s follow-up post today and these thoughts came to mind.

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Source Sex Addiction

My name is Nick Shoemaker and I am a lust-a-holic, this is my story.
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As is typically the case when I get busy, things around here, the blog that is, get put on the back burner.

Here’s the short list:

Jaxon is nearly 15 months old now, he’s 34+ inches tall and is just about to walk on his own. He and I (and my gorgeous wife Amie) have gibberish conversations on a daily basis. It’s awesome!

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Jaxon was gettin’ some pool time in with my wife’s parents, so I grabbed the camera and snapped a few shots. This one is my desktop background for June. You can check out the rest of the shots when you connect with me on Facebook!

Hope. It’s a funny thing, eh?

It rises and falls like the tide on this ever changing sea we call our emotions.

It’s been used in book and movie titles, and even as part of political campaign slogans.

Today, at least for me, hope became more real and reached new heights of clarity with one statement:

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No- ‘IT’ is not sex. At least not in this case.

Yesterday I mentioned that I doubt. Today I’m pretty much vurping (vomit-burp: not a full vomit, but still not pleasant and definitely not fun like a burp).

Jason Boyett wrote a book O Me of Little Faith- and I’m probably going to read it.

Today he asked the question: How do doubters achieve a balance between honest questioning, personal transparency, and concern over the spiritual well-being of non-doubters?

Here’s my answer in the comments on that post:

wow.

Yeah- I need to read this book (or maybe I don’t).
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I have doubts. Unbeliefs. Approval-denials.

I really hope this isn’t a surprise to anyone.

The problem is that I didn’t think I had them. (And, I still don’t know if my doubts are real.)

I am constantly telling myself that doubts are fear-based thoughts. That they’re not really real.

THEY ARE REAL- they exist. Small to large, minute to ginormous, funny to serious, uneventful to life-changing, secular to religious.

The hardest part is that, at the same time, I hate them and cling to them.
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It’s the 5th of May and that can only mean one thing- yep, it’s Cinco de Mustache!

For some laughs (and maybe even some cringing) check out The Official Cinco de Moustache Facebook Page.

And for some more fun- take the poll over there ➫ ➬ ➭ ➮ ➫ ➬ ➭ ➮

HAPPY Cinco de Mustache!

Sweet pics after the jump…
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Please consider giving $10 towards our campaign at Be The Now to raise $10,000 for 2 wells!

As many of you know today is my birthday. It’s also earth day. Hence- Bearthday.

All day today I’m offering satirical #EarthDayTips. OR just check out the sweet LIVE-updating-search-widget to the right! ➜➜➜➜➜➜➜➜

Did you catch that? SATIRICAL.

If you want to know what I really think of EarthDay you need to check out my post from last year: Earth Day SUCKS!

Take care all!

Teaser for tomorrow- 30×30: The Results!

Peace.
~Nick