FAMILY.....

First of let me say that I do not know a lot of things! I am actually sort of dumb. I did graduate with honors from Anderson College, but I am still wondering how all that happened!

Deanna and I have been looking at a particular house and I decided to get my brother-in-law, Matt Knotts, to go with me and check the house out. (You know a house can be like a good book, looks great on the outside, but is a dump on the inside. The book could have a great look, great couple of chapters and then fall apart after that!) Well, needless to say, I wanted someone who I trust to give me their honest opinion; if there is anyone to that it is Matt. Let me first of say this, Matt is smart! The man is going to college at night after a hard day’s work, come home and is a great husband and father, then stays up studying for his classes. By the way, he has a 4.0 GPA! (Yes, he is sort of related to me!!) So needless to say, I felt very comfortable with his advice. He is also the modern day Mr. FIX-IT. It goes to say that anybody who knows Matt will say the same thing! Case in point: When Deanna and I bought our first home in Florence, we had some things that needed to be fixed (a legal size page full of little fixes that take up time). Matt took some vacation days and came down and took care of the whole list in 2 DAYS!!! I said, 2 DAYS!!! What are you kidding me! When we sold out house, it sold very well, because of Matt’s help!!

Back to my story, Matt starts looking around and starts saying all these things that I do not understand about building codes. Crawls around under the house, checks out the attic, check the bathrooms, the ceiling, everything! He found some stuff that looked a little shady, which I am so thankful for! Here is a man that does not have to give me advice, but is willing! He cares about his family and extended family (maybe more on that later) so much that he wants to protect them from other problems! God has gifted him to be able to retain a lot of knowledge to be very particular about different things! He allowed himself to be used tonight! What a huge blessing that was for me to see and experience!

I pray that I will be that way, that I will allow God to use me in the areas of my giftedness. I want to be in the ZONE! I want to do the thing that pleases the Leader and Forgiver of my life, Jesus Christ.

Matt you are the man! Deanna and I love you and appreciate you and Dana allowing us to stay in your apartment over garage until we find a house (you would think that he would be saying, just buy any house, it doesn’t matter, just get out of my house!)! YOU ROCK MY FACE OFF!