The Most beautiful Thursday ever made

Today is a beautiful day....it has to be the most beautiful Thursday ever made----enjoy it and don't forget to look at the moon tonite and tomorrow it should be fully round and oh so brite!

I am finally back and fully recovered from camp....look out world it is time to turn you upside down!

I am listening to U2 all day today....they might be the most consistent band of the last two decades....any takers?

Let's see....on another note---have you hugged anyone today? Go and pick a random person, a person that does not expect a hug and turn their world upside down by hugging them.

I hope you all are smiling cause you make me smile

Love-Thunder-Full Moons-Peace-Anger-
Joy----see it where you are!

Tate

Life after camp OR this american life

i just played the crap out of my guitar....i had not really played for a week (camp) and boy did it feel good!
Sooo campers i had some other stuff to post but my mental stupor is in the way. whadda ya know...work has really been work for the past few days which really stinks....i don't usually feel this way 'bout work but this week i do.
health....when you have it....you take it for granted when you don't...it's not any fun.

I really need to hit the guitar store but first i have to buy the most beautiful woman in the world her b-day present. if i hit the guitar store 1st then i will have my priorities mixed up.

hope you folks are enjoying yourselves....my mental block finally opened up and i have clarity again...i am going to be doing a mass change of my my email name over the course of the next few days...i have pondered this for quite some time....i really like gmail but they wouldn't let me do less then 6 characters and it did not make me a happy camper 'cause i have been wanting to just use tate@gmail.com but I need two more characters and of course tate@ yahoo.com has been taken over the course of the past 5 years or so.
it looks like i am going with "njtate" @ gmail....I really like gmail.
so campers.....look for a big public announcement over the course of the next few days....till then
peace & love and power to the people! weeeeeeeee!

Responsibility

There is something about waking up today that was different.....see I am going to Camp Manatawny to counsel a cabin full of boys and my wife, the gorgeous one, will be going as well as my three kids....so I woke up this AM, knowing that I was done work for a week, knowing that I was in God's presence and that I didn't have too worry about staffing and cash issues and all of that retail stuff that I know and love. I woke up knowing that for the next 7 days I would be totally concentrating on God and relationships. I have to tell you....I love reality but at the same time despise it....When I see the homeless, the sick and hurting I know that there is something greater then this and I do not want to be a part if this world because I believe in a much bigger place...Heaven. I woke up peacefulth is morning because rather then "escape reality" thru drugs, alcohol or by running away and shrugging responsibility or one of the other 8 million ways to escape reality....rather then do any or all of that.....I will escape reality via camp.....where it is about as close to heaven as a place I have ever been....where everyone smiles and says good morning. Where the TV doesn't even get seen, where you don't hear the weather you just wait for it....where people hug you 'cause they love you and where people do things for you because they know what was done for them (on the cross). Where people forgive one another w/o even thinking about it. You see....I believe in a far greater place, heaven and for the next 7 solid days I am going to get to taste it......

nj life will be away

NJ life will be on a short hiatus whilst enjoying the semi-central Pennsylvania lowlands.
Enjoy yourselves....don't forget to glance @ the nite sky to see Mars.
Don't forget to take out the trash and please don't forget to read God's word....

Till we meet again.....XOXO

today's post

This is two parter....don't click away it's very ez.

1. Where do you/we get confidence from?
2. Do you read my posts?

C'mon.... don't just read but type!

question of the minute

what is the most exciting thing going on in your life??

seriously....can you answer that?

my answer is as follows:
the anticipation of camp which delves into my life's purpose/mission statement which I posted yesterday. the anticipation of "bunking down" and living life with 6-9 young men and spending every moment with them....no internet, no tv, no recorded music, mars @ nite, the moon @ nite, sitting @ a camp fire, watching today's future (youth) learn to live life....watching some of best friends and family do the same....it doesn't get any better and if you think I am out to lunch go talk to someone in their 80's or 90's and see who is right.....'cause while you are thinking about what you are going to do for yourself....the world is whizzing right by you. If you blink you might miss it....leave it all on the floor....take no prisioners!!
the question is.....do you want it?!

question of the minute

what is the most exciting thing going on in your life??

seriously....can you answer that?

my answer is as follows:
the anticipation of camp which delves into my life's purpose/mission statement which I posted yesterday. the anticipation of "bunking down" and living life with 6-9 young men and spending every moment with them....no internet, no tv, no recorded music, mars @ nite, the moon @ nite, sitting @ a camp fire, watching today's future (youth) learn to live life....watching some of best friends and family do the same....it doesn't get any better and if you think I am out to lunch go talk to someone in their 80's or 90's and see who is right.....'cause while you are thinking about what you are going to do for yourself....the world is whizzing right by you. If you blink you might miss it....leave it all on the floor....take no prisioners!!
the question is.....do you want it?!