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so i got this fancy dvd in the mail today.
they had some “man on the street” type videos on there, so i watched them. the first one was at Texas A&M University and the second one was at Houston Baptist University. As i was watching the one at HBU i noticed something amazing…
…I am in a scene. the whole HBU part was filmed during last years spring fling, which my wife and i happened to be attending. so during one girls answer, the video guy captured my wife and i, along with a few of our friends hanging out at spring fling. i was pretty stoked! then a couple people later, my good friend Angelo was actually one of the people interviewed. i was pretty excited about the whole ordeal.
.:8:27 pm edit:.
i am talking to my brother online. here is an excerpt from our conversation.
my brother is nuts. and he wants some of these dadgum chips!
so, as some of you may know, i am an uncle. if you didn’t know that…well…i am an uncle. my little nephew lives with his mom and dad in australia.
today marks a great milestone. today, little david farley turns ONE YEAR OLD! yay!!!!
here are a couple pictures. i must say, he looks like a windsurfing stud in that wetsuit!
grace and peace.
sorry for not having a meaningful/thoughtful/thought provoking blog post in awhile. but here are a few happenings and/or thoughts from the last few days.
1. yesterday while working at mugz, i spilled 3 shots of espresso all over my left leg. all of this b/c i took my eyes off the cup to say hi/make eye contact with one of the owners. it was really hot. also while at work i slammed my finger in a door. it was an interesting day as a barista yesterday.
2. in the last month, we have had two young families with younger children join our church. this excites me. now if we can just teach them the way of Christ, not the way of being baptist.
3. i’ve been pondering what my role as a youth pastor is lately. do i need to take over parental roles in situations that the parent isn’t doing their job in teaching their child the way of Christ? should i just step back? i don’t ever want to take the place of a parent, or make the parent feel like i am stepping on their toes.
4. my brother just told me online that he is going to be running a motorcycle engine that he and a friend built today in school. he goes to MMI. im glad he found something he likes doing.
5. what exactly is an everyday congregational church member’s responsibility towards the church? why do so many church members base their faithfulness to a church on a single thing? if that one thing changes, adios church…
6. why do so many church members care more about their faithfulness to a church, or their faithfulness to a single thing at a church, more than they care about their faithfulness to Christ?
7. my boss at the coffee shop said she wanted to find a church that she could go to in her mugz uniform. i told her the coffee smell would be a great fragrant offering to God.
8. i will never understand how some churches think that God/church has a “dress code”.
9. he is legend is great. i am hollywood is such a great album.
10. do church members really understand the role of the ministerial staff of their church?
11. i know more about some of the regulars at mugz (where i have only worked a week) than i do some members of my church. why is it that coffee shops are more authentic/real/full of community, than alot of churches?
12. i think coffee has superpowers.
grace and peace be with you.
ike is almost here. we are currently getting a little bit of a stiff breeze here in richmond. clear skies though, still. we have one of kimb’s friends from school, maggie, staying with us. she is pretty rad.
yesterday, i had the afternoon off work so dad and i got to work on the houses.
dad getting the wood out of their garage for their house.
parents house done! now on to our house. the picture at the top is our house. it’s boarded up as much as we could.
this storm is crazy. the news just said it was about 500 miles wide. thats craaaazy. we currently have plenty of water, bread, etc. we have some movies to watch (if we don’t lose power). we are hunkered down here at the gutowsky residence. ready to take on the next 24 hours. they are saying that it should get bad tonight at midnight, at the earliest. i am ready. we are ready. i will keep you guys updated via photos throughout the day/night/tomorrow on some of the actions taking place here.
we (meaning us, and the rest of the texas coast covet your prayers)
grac and peace be with you.
here are some more shots of my friends angelo, sarah and hayden.
grace and peace.
my brother finally arrived. we picked him up at the airport last night. here are a few pictures form the airport.
grace and peace.
my dad and i played golf today at cinco ranch country club. it was fun, but it was dang hot. it was a refreshing time with my dad and now…
…my shoulders hurt.
ps. that is my dad in the picture. look at that form!
l8r
tonight was pretty cool…
i went to the astros/yankees game. the ’stros lost 8-4 but it was still pretty cool getting to see the yankees play live. i think if i would have sat down and written a bucket list, this MIGHT have been on mine. there were so many yankee fans at the ballpark. i hated it. you could actually hear chants for the yankees…but the yankee fans were ok. nowhere near as bad as the cardinals or cubs fans.
we sat in the club level…for free thanks to one of my wife’s friends. our tickets were given to us by a very gracious church member…thanks wayne! and we found free parking, and b/c of one of my wife’s friends, we got free soda while in the club. it was dang awesome.
a good night indeed.
grace and peace.
i would like to introduce all of you to lucy.
kimb and i got her 2 weeks ago and she has been great. so to all of you out there in the blogosphere, this is lucy.
pictures taken by my wife.
editing by me.
grace and peace.
my sister-in-law asked me to shoot some pictures of her son david while they were in town. i took quite a few shots. you will be seeing quite a bit of david john farley for a while.
david…meet the blogosphere
grace and peace.
yay for weddings. it brings fun children around to take pictures of.
hope you enjoy.
some of kimb’s family came into town tonight for our wedding on saturday. we shared a great meal together then just hung out. during this time i got to play with the kids. here are a couple from the night.
hope you enjoy.
im getting married in two days. actually, its after midnight…
im getting married tomorrow!
these are a few pictures from the trip my mom and i took to dublin, tx. we had a great trip. these pictures of the dr pepper bottles are only the tip of the iceberg. there are currently 480 bottles of dublin dr pepper in my old room at my parents house. it is certainly an amazing sight.
grace and peace.
if you know me, then you know how much i like dr pepper. well, at my wedding kimb and i will be toasting with dublin dr pepper. if you have no clue what im talking about, dublin dr pepper is made with cane sugar. this means that it is really, really sweet.
a couple years ago some of my best friends and i went on the “texas is awesome” road trip and on this trip we stopped in austin, san antonio, dallas/ft.worth, lukenback, walberg, abiline and dublin. this was my first time in dublin.
but this friday, my mom and i are going back. when we come back we will come with appox. 400 bottles of dr pepper. im not joking. it will be glorious.
im really excited about this trip. its gonna be fun. i will take plenty of pictures and post them so you can experience great joy with me.
…unpacking at the new home with my fiance’. everything (couch, mattress, internet guy) arrived on time today which was good. i realized that we have alot of stuff and that wedding showers are awesome. i will give you the MTV Cribs tour (via photos) later.
grace and peace
tonight we took my grandpa out for dinner for his birthday tomorrow. it was awesome. we had a great time. great laughs, great food, and even more amazing green sauce.
if you are ever in rosenberg, please swing by la casona. it will be well worth your time and money.
peace be with you.
through this entire process dealing/healing with and/or from my cousins death i have seen something that has made me sick. that is the lasting signs of divorce. here we are in a time when we need to love and be completely unselfish but all we can be (because of the divorce) is selfish. asking questions like “what of his do i get?”, and making statements like “i am entitled to it!”. im sick of it. we are all mourning. how ’bout we just mourn and let the healing begin before we start dealing with all that crap.
through this i have seen the lasting effects of divorce. because of this divorce many years ago, there has been a wedge shoved between former husband and wife that will never be removed; between dad and daughter that will never be removed and that wedge is causing more problems than ever at this moment.
i have been watching this closely simply because i will be getting married in a couple months and it is my plan to never cause my family to experience the lasting effects of divorce. it is my aim to love my wife with every ounce of my being. to love her. to serve her. to care for her and to play guitar hero with her until our fingers are numb. and i am confident that she will do the same towards me.
this just hurts. death is never fun. ever. but this situation just adds another log to the fire. please pray that God will guide our family in all upcoming decisions. we are truly going to need His guidance
yesterday was a hard day. sunday night was the viewing for my cousin. it was hard, but at the same time it was encouraging. it started at 6 and went till 9. from about 6:30 to 7:30 there was a line out the back of the chapel. a line full of people whose lives brian touched. yesterday at 2 we had his funeral. it was a beautiful day outside. we as a family were grateful for that. the chapel was again packed. standing room only. if only he knew that this many people were thankful for his life and friendship and in turn were destroyed by his death. after he was carried out of the chapel and into the hearse we all followed. walking behind the hearse to brians final place of rest. there were so many people, showing their love for him and their support of our family. i couldn’t help but cry.
i came to a realization yesterday at the funeral that it is pretty silly that it takes tragedy to bring people together. if i were to add up all the hugs and “if you need anything please don’t hesitate to call”’s that i received this weekend it would surpass the total from the other 24 years of my life. i felt community like never before this weekend. i felt a different kind of love this weekend. it was amazing, but i wish it wouldn’t come because of my cousins death.
i don’t really know what else to say but thank you for your comments and your prayers. please specifically pray for my aunt donna and my cousin stephanie. they are both being as strong as they can in this time but they are still having a really hard time. please pray for a peace to come over my family. we are all stressed with other stuff and then to have this tragedy on top of it just makes things really hard.
thank you.
