This is the season of beginnings. Commencements that is. Frist mine, now Joy, and at Liberty, we have 6 HS graduations that we service. I have sat through many. Large schools, small schools, public and private. This morning at Montrose Christian school, I saw a united class. One of close friendships, memories, and a longing to move on yet not leave the present moment. If every student in America, or the world for that matter, could have the experiences these students had in which personal, meaningful relationships were developed, we would have a much better workforce, a much better society, and perhaps less strife.
Pretty impressive for a class of only 23. Perhaps that says something for small schools and intimate classroom settings.
Saturday, May 21, 2005
Saturday, May 14, 2005
Liberty University 2005 Graduation
After 5 years, a lot of money, a wife and two kids, I finally completed the first step in my quest to take over the world!
Friday, May 06, 2005
Mentor
I heard someone say today, "Man, is it hard to Graduate." I empathized with that statement when I heard it, and even after completing my final class period of my undergrad career, I still feel like I havn't finished it all. I think I walk across the stage, I still will not feel completion. Do we ever feel that?
i have never had a professor have such a profound effect on me as I had this semester. At the end of each semester, we as students are asked to evaluate our professors with basic questions and a scantron. In most cases, you have compliants about professors, thier ideosyncricies, their approach to thing, or just how they treat you. This year I met a man who was what he taught, down to the very scripture that he quoted. Not in all of my education have i come across a man who embodied everything that he taught. Moreover, he challenged me to look at things on a personal level such as my temperment, my charcter, my faith, my approach to work and life.
The definiton of mentor is "advisor, guide, guru, counsel...". The definition of teacher is "educator, tutor, instructor. The term professor is a teach that is tenured, and a scholar. This man would not call himself a professor per this definition, and he is too humble, though blunt, to tell you he is a mentor, but the word teacher is an insult I feel. This man is a mentor to his students, not becuase they choose him to be one, but because he embodies what that word means.
While his class challeged me academically, his character challenged me personally, and through this I have been able to pass along to those who work for me his wisdom, experience, service to our school and nation, and hopefully someday his example that he showed to me.
This is what college is about. Great mentors bestowing upon those who pay absorbadant amounts of money, much of which these mentors never see, in order to perhaps absorb an iota of this wisdom these great people hae worked a lifetime to craft and pass along.
Wish there were more like this man at Liberty. Sadly he is one of a couple that I can count on one hand.
Thank you for all that you have done.
i have never had a professor have such a profound effect on me as I had this semester. At the end of each semester, we as students are asked to evaluate our professors with basic questions and a scantron. In most cases, you have compliants about professors, thier ideosyncricies, their approach to thing, or just how they treat you. This year I met a man who was what he taught, down to the very scripture that he quoted. Not in all of my education have i come across a man who embodied everything that he taught. Moreover, he challenged me to look at things on a personal level such as my temperment, my charcter, my faith, my approach to work and life.
The definiton of mentor is "advisor, guide, guru, counsel...". The definition of teacher is "educator, tutor, instructor. The term professor is a teach that is tenured, and a scholar. This man would not call himself a professor per this definition, and he is too humble, though blunt, to tell you he is a mentor, but the word teacher is an insult I feel. This man is a mentor to his students, not becuase they choose him to be one, but because he embodies what that word means.
While his class challeged me academically, his character challenged me personally, and through this I have been able to pass along to those who work for me his wisdom, experience, service to our school and nation, and hopefully someday his example that he showed to me.
This is what college is about. Great mentors bestowing upon those who pay absorbadant amounts of money, much of which these mentors never see, in order to perhaps absorb an iota of this wisdom these great people hae worked a lifetime to craft and pass along.
Wish there were more like this man at Liberty. Sadly he is one of a couple that I can count on one hand.
Thank you for all that you have done.
Monday, May 02, 2005
Something to write about.
The girls grow so much every day yet I find that I have little to write about that doesnt seem insignificant. We can take little actions like smiling, cooing, praying, climbing as things that we expect them to do and therefore I wouldnt think about writing about them.
Kaylah loves to do anything that Daddy wants to do. Golf, looking on the computer with me, watching TV shows with me, yet she wont ride in my new car with me. I think there is something that she loved about the pickup truck that I used to have. Me too. I miss it.
Madison loves pulling up on things. Everything. She will pull up on the couch, the hamper, her bouncy seat, the dining room chairs, anything. She can clearly say da da and ma ma, but not much else. She is crawling all over the place. She is now eating baby food really well, most times an entire jar of something each meal, even though she is still very small.
Deborah is attempting to finish the semester. She is very busy taming Kaylah, and chasing Maddie, and cleaning up after me, that she rarley has time to primp herself. Not many other women could keep up with her, and still look as beautiful as she does.
College is coming to a close for me. The next step is my Real Estate Liscence, a tax class, and starting my MBA here at LU, all while attempting to grow an audio department from 11 employees to 30, and designing a solution to provide a growing Univeristy with the next phase in it's growth. My work also allows me to mentor students in character development and professionalism, something that I take great pride in and which helps me cope with the limitations and frustrations of a University set in a Ministry mindset.
God is teaching me patience and allowing me to see my self from the inside out, not from what the world sees from the outside. I'm reading a couple of leadership books in my leisure. One is the Seven Habits of Highly Effective people. I'm hoping through my reading, I can gain a better understanding of personal effectiveness, and through that be able to teach my famly and those I work with elements that will help them through life as well.
My mom has recently started a new career path. She has gone back to school and obtained a certification which gives her the title of Certified Legal Nurse Consultant. After obtaining this, she incorporated a business, Certified Legal Nurse Constulting Services. My Mother, Father, and I make up the Board of Directors, and through my assitance they have been able to start a company from scratch. Our service is presenting expert witness on behalf of plaintiff or defendant in medical malpractice cases. I am mearly the business mind in this venture, my father the money, and my mother the expert. She hopes to be able to remove herself from the hospital she serves in by 1-2 years from now.
To those of you who are reading this site frequently, I hope that you research RSS technology, and how it will help you know when I have updated posts. Hopefully this site is helpful and informative, but it is more a way for me to communicate and be creative. Some where that I can put my thoughts down.
Good Night.
Kaylah loves to do anything that Daddy wants to do. Golf, looking on the computer with me, watching TV shows with me, yet she wont ride in my new car with me. I think there is something that she loved about the pickup truck that I used to have. Me too. I miss it.
Madison loves pulling up on things. Everything. She will pull up on the couch, the hamper, her bouncy seat, the dining room chairs, anything. She can clearly say da da and ma ma, but not much else. She is crawling all over the place. She is now eating baby food really well, most times an entire jar of something each meal, even though she is still very small.
Deborah is attempting to finish the semester. She is very busy taming Kaylah, and chasing Maddie, and cleaning up after me, that she rarley has time to primp herself. Not many other women could keep up with her, and still look as beautiful as she does.
College is coming to a close for me. The next step is my Real Estate Liscence, a tax class, and starting my MBA here at LU, all while attempting to grow an audio department from 11 employees to 30, and designing a solution to provide a growing Univeristy with the next phase in it's growth. My work also allows me to mentor students in character development and professionalism, something that I take great pride in and which helps me cope with the limitations and frustrations of a University set in a Ministry mindset.
God is teaching me patience and allowing me to see my self from the inside out, not from what the world sees from the outside. I'm reading a couple of leadership books in my leisure. One is the Seven Habits of Highly Effective people. I'm hoping through my reading, I can gain a better understanding of personal effectiveness, and through that be able to teach my famly and those I work with elements that will help them through life as well.
My mom has recently started a new career path. She has gone back to school and obtained a certification which gives her the title of Certified Legal Nurse Consultant. After obtaining this, she incorporated a business, Certified Legal Nurse Constulting Services. My Mother, Father, and I make up the Board of Directors, and through my assitance they have been able to start a company from scratch. Our service is presenting expert witness on behalf of plaintiff or defendant in medical malpractice cases. I am mearly the business mind in this venture, my father the money, and my mother the expert. She hopes to be able to remove herself from the hospital she serves in by 1-2 years from now.
To those of you who are reading this site frequently, I hope that you research RSS technology, and how it will help you know when I have updated posts. Hopefully this site is helpful and informative, but it is more a way for me to communicate and be creative. Some where that I can put my thoughts down.
Good Night.
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