The Contents of it All

So, perhaps I should have started this off with an introduction on what I hope to accomplish with my blog here. I’ve always wanted to write a book. I don’t know enough about any particular subject to write a book, although I know quite a bit about me. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not trying to be arrogant here, I have lived with myself for nearly 23 years. However, I plan to look at myself, my life, as if I were the character. Reviewing and critiquing my actions and the actions of those around me. The main intent though is to tell my testimony, the story that God has given me to share, in a new way; both for anyone who reads this and for myself. Looking to the past through a God-Centered lens can reveal so much. So join me on this journey through My Life, God’s Story.

The outline listed below shows what I consider important pieces of my life. I probably won’t go in the order listed below but write about an event that inspires me. It’s important to note I didn’t really become a Christian until high school. So there are several back ground pieces to get through first but I may not follow this at all. Just gives me a bit of a focus.

First Steps

1.       Severity of it all

2.       Terrible tantrums

3.       Big Wheel Tricycles

Elementary Steps

4.       Preschool Spiders

5.       The National Standard

6.       Knight in Khakis

7.       Heroic Triumphs

8.       Stomaching the differences

9.       Achilles Heel

Middle Moments

10.   Focal Point

11.   Sticks and Stones

12.   The Rage of the Rascal

High Hope

13.   Short Order/Heart Strings

14.   Breaking and Making News

15.   Chief

16.   Kicking and Screaming

17.   Chains of Rage

18.   Love Assault

19.   The Bonds of the Crew

20.   Purdue or Don’t

21.   0-20 Points in Five Minutes

Summer Lovin’

22.   Juicing Life

23.   Docking Station

24.   Legal Attitude

Fresh Outlook

25.   Purple Pride

26.   Mountain Top Experience

27.   New Years Eve wants and Needs

28.   Down the Drain

Soft Boiled

29.   From Boulder to Bolder

30.   Slipping Back

31.   Life of the Party

32.   Elmer’s Glue

33.   Broken Shingles

34.   E Cacaphony

35.   The M

36.   Sprites

Junior

37.   No Last Goodbye

38.   Wedding Haze

39.   Apples to Anger

40.   Paternity of Destruction

41.   Hollow Hoosiers

42.   The Ski-Kat House

43.   Losing Balance

44.   Moving Back

Senior Sendoff

45.   Heroic Summer

46.   Senior Psych-Out

47.   Beep Beep Here’s a Jeep

48.   The Loco Black Out

49.   Who are you People?

50.   Red Light

51.   Creeping Darkness

52.   Mountain Roads

53.   100, well 10 Days

54.   Stand Up

55.   Together Now

56.   Empty Cupboards

57.   Rock Star Moment

58.   Pranking My Way Out

Mastering It

59.   Morning March

60.   Round 1, Ding

61.   Grounded

62.   Valley Travels

63.   Core Faith

64.   Managing It All

65.   October 8, 2011

66.   Empty Shoulders

67.   Chilly Anger

68.   Conventional Faith

However, I will also be posting 3 of the most emotional papers I have written. I wrote them during my Life Stories class last semester, where I was trying to learn how to write more autobiographical pieces. Please review and critique as you take this journey with me. We may hop around but I’ll put as much humor and fun into it as I can.

Thanks,

Nathan

Birth: December 25, 1988 12:06am MT

“Yet you brought me safely from my mother’s womb and led me to trust you at my mother’s breast. I was thrust into your arms at my birth. You have been my God from the moment I was born. Do not stay so far from me, for trouble is near, and no one else can help me.” – Psalm 22:9-11 NLT

In March of 1988 a little girl, Nicole, told her parents that Santa was going to bring her a baby brother for Christmas. At the time both parents scoffed, they weren’t pregnant and their previous attempts at having a child had failed. Plus, could they really support another child. The mother worked as a gas station clerk and the dad worked as a tool grinder. The pay wasn’t much to go off of, plus they already had to support their four year old daughter. Could they handle another child?

The baby boy was due mid-January but on Christmas Eve around noon, the Dad and Mom had to rush off to the hospital. The little girl knew Santa would come through as she was dropped off at her great-aunt’s house while Daddy took mommy to see the doctor.  The rest of the night it was a race against the clock. Yes they wanted their child to be born, but not on Christmas day, it needed to happen soon. As the time ticked by, the baby just wasn’t ready to come out. Nearing Midnight it was time to push, and then a baby boy, at 12:06 AM MT. He was the first baby born at St. Joseph’s hospital on 12/25/1988, Christmas Day.

They named him Nathan, because as it turns out the Father argued that Nathaniel would be too hard for the boy to learn how to spell. What they didn’t realize is, that with all names the purpose, God’s intent, for this child would change. Simply, Nathaniel means “Gift of God”, Nathan means “Gift”; and how fitting of a name was it for Christmas morning.

That Christmas baby, the big sister’s Christmas present, is me. I will forever blame my sister, Nicole, for the miraculous timing of my birth. A day that was never to be my own, a day that was to be shared, a day my family will never forget.

I was born into a family who, I have now determined wasn’t ready for the trial that God was going to put them through. A family, who at times felt like they were being held together by bungee cords and duct tape; but a family none the less. My birth, my name, my life are all due to God’s purpose. I was a gift that day, Christmas Day, to family who needed someone to keep them together. God had a plan.

My Life, His Story