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Good Evening or should I say morning. I am a diehard blogger when I am this tired but feel the need to write. As you can see my two posts below, there was some misunderstanding in my life on Monday. Let’s just say it’s all worked out and I’ve found it to be quite the blessing in disguise, but more on that much later.

My good friend Bob is staying at my house while his car is getting fixed. It’s different having someone else here, I’ve gotten quite used to being alone so another person in the house has been a nice change of pace. You know, it gets quite boring talking to the walls . We watched some TV tonight and he’s gotten me hooked on some series, so there’s more of my time devoted to watching TV .

Hope’s birthday is Wednesday, the big 2-0. Hard to believe that soon me and my other close friends will no longer be teenagers, how strange. I talked to Shawna to let her know that “John Massie John Massie” was still around and alive. I’m trying to arrange to see her and the rest of my Marysville gang sometime in the near future.

Work is going great, I’m loving my new job. I am getting settled in and I’m really enjoying some of the new challenges that I have to face.

Spiritually, God’s doing some work on me. I’ve been praying a lot for people and for myself as well. God’s thankfully been showing me some things in my life that I need to improve on and areas that need some work. He’s also developing a heart for people more so than I’ve had in the past, so that is always an interesting path to take when learning something new.

Well folks, I need to get off here and go to bed, just wanted to give an updated. I’m trying to be more consistant in the updates to keep the visits regular. So, leave me some comments and let me know you all are out there!

Night,
- j -

That’s why… Life’s fine now.

We now return you to your regurally scheduled blogging,
- J -

If only I knew why… I’ll explain more later…

Pray for me,
- J -

So, my week has been non-stop since Monday. It’s gotten much busier as the week has progressed. It began with me working like normal in the office, then on Wednesday I had a good friend of mine buy a car so I went with him to his house so he could pick up his other car he was trading in (he was trading in two). I drove one, he drove the other, and we got the cars to the lot late that evening cleaned them out and swapped with his new car. So I didn’t get to bed that night until extremely late. I was also told on Wednesday that I would be working on a server install project… cool. It was in Indiana… cool. I had to be there at 9:00 AM… NOT COOL. So this morning I got up at 4:30 AM. Yes you read that right, 4:30 in the morning and got ready and left for Indiana. It was a long drive and the job was sweet installing servers and SANS equipment, something I enjoy. I stopped at a Denny’s on the way home since we don’t have them in the central Ohio area anymore and had lunch. I then headed home and got home sometime after 5:00 PM. It was a great time and I enjoyed the trip, but I’m worn out.

I’ve had friends over several nights this week, so that’s been nice to not be alone so much. It also forces me to keep the house clean . I think tomorrow I am going to see what some of my friends are up to and/or go see my girlfriend, Beth. Then on Saturday, I might clean up some stuff in the office (paperwork and such) and then Sunday is church!

Well, I need to get off here and get some sleep. Keep the comments coming! It was nice to see I still have some faithful readers out there.

Later,
- J -

Well, here I sit on a Sunday evening, at the iMac. I know, the last time I updated was a while back. So, I’ll give you the cliff notes update on my life.

The Job
Well, as many of you may or may not know, I am no longer employed by Unisys at Ashland. On July 24, 2006 I officially started at Pomeroy IT Solutions in Hilliard, Ohio. I’m working in their Service Delivery department as a main lead. It’s a very interesting job, meeting different clients on a daily basis (I deal with multiple companies with multiple locations). It’s giving me a chance to really use some skills that were completely untapped with the previous company. It’s also just nice to change up pace and what not. So, that’s where I am career wise. Oh, and did I mention that I now have a 15 minute drive to and work and from work to home? Yeah, no more of that Dublin traffic to deal with!

The Girlfriend
Beth and I are doing great! We’ve been together now for about two months and I’ve had the time of my life. We’ve been to the zoo and the fair in the past month or so. Thankfully it looks like her family is moving my direction (down the street to be exact) and that will save us a bunch of time and money (driving 70 miles one way isn’t cheap, even with my Altima). I know that she occasionally reads this, so hopefully she’ll see that she’s made me quite happy!

The House
I’ve been doing minor things here and there. I’ve finally gotten all the major furniture that I need so I’ll have to post some pictures once I get some stuff for the walls. Nothing new really, I did finally get pictures into the frames that I’ve had around the house for months and got most of the crap out of all the rooms so it looks like I live here, not just moving in.

My Spiritual Life
A week ago I attended New Covenant church in Waverly, Ohio. My good friends Doug and Dana Campbell are the pastor (and church secretary) there. The service began by their daughter singing this beautiful song about having everything we need in our spiritual life and our desire but “What are we waiting for?”. I was very moved by the song and that’s where God got a hold of my heart. Then Dana got up and lead our worship service with a great song selection and wonderful commentary in-between. It inspired me to really worship God. I was lost in awe of God and His mighty power and His wonderful love, for me. Then as the sermon began Doug preached on a personal Pentecost in our lives. How we have certain traits that we need to confess and give to God and honestly dedicate our lives to Him. It is then that we begin to live at a new level with God and seek Him more fully. I know that was a bad explanation of his sermon, but that’s the short version that I have time to give. Well, God had been speaking to me through the entire service and I was dying to go to the alter. I’ve not been down to an altar to pray since I was saved, so very many years ago. Not that I didn’t want to go, but in my younger years I was scared or just didn’t feel like that’s what God wanted from me at that moment.

This time there was no question that God wanted me down there. So when the altar was opened I was there. This wonderful man by the name of Walter came up and prayed with me. It was like God gave him the words that I needed to hear as he prayed. I was very touched by what he had to say and I was so thankful that God sent him to pray with me at that moment. Since then I’ve felt much different. I’ve faced a little more spiritual opposition, but yet at the same time I feel like I experience God at a much deeper level and that a few more doors, spiritually, have been opened for me. God has been good to me and He continues to pour out His love, grace and mercy for me.

To gain some more readers I’ll try and post more often. I’ll place it on the calendar so I remember to blog, even if it isn’t thing moving and inspiring, just a simple, “hello, I’m alive and this is what my day consisted of” post. My numbers go up and down (obviously a little low lately since I haven’t updated), but I’ll work on raising the numbers. I’ll post this post on Xanga as well to draw the readers from there over to this site.

Drop me a comment and let me know you’re still out there!

God Bless You All,
- J -

To My Xanga Readers:

This was copied from my www.johnmassie.com website. I wanted you all to know that I’m alive but remember, to get the latest updates you’ll have to switch to read the other site. Drop me a line and let me know you’re living!

– J – Out.

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Well, here I sit on a Sunday evening, at the iMac. I know, the last time I updated was a while back. So, I’ll give you the cliff notes update on my life.

The Job
Well, as many of you may or may not know, I am no longer employed by Unisys at Ashland. On July 24, 2006 I officially started at Pomeroy IT Solutions in Hilliard, Ohio. I’m working in their Service Delivery department as a main lead. It’s a very interesting job, meeting different clients on a daily basis (I deal with multiple companies with multiple locations). It’s giving me a chance to really use some skills that were completely untapped with the previous company. It’s also just nice to change up pace and what not. So, that’s where I am career wise. Oh, and did I mention that I now have a 15 minute drive to and work and from work to home? Yeah, no more of that Dublin traffic to deal with!

The Girlfriend
Beth and I are doing great! We’ve been together now for about two months and I’ve had the time of my life. We’ve been to the zoo and the fair in the past month or so. Thankfully it looks like her family is moving my direction (down the street to be exact) and that will save us a bunch of time and money (driving 70 miles one way isn’t cheap, even with my Altima). I know that she occasionally reads this, so hopefully she’ll see that she’s made me quite happy!

The House
I’ve been doing minor things here and there. I’ve finally gotten all the major furniture that I need so I’ll have to post some pictures once I get some stuff for the walls. Nothing new really, I did finally get pictures into the frames that I’ve had around the house for months and got most of the crap out of all the rooms so it looks like I live here, not just moving in.

My Spiritual Life
A week ago I attended New Covenant church in Waverly, Ohio. My good friends Doug and Dana Campbell are the pastor (and church secretary) there. The service began by their daughter singing this beautiful song about having everything we need in our spiritual life and our desire but “What are we waiting for?”. I was very moved by the song and that’s where God got a hold of my heart. Then Dana got up and lead our worship service with a great song selection and wonderful commentary in-between. It inspired me to really worship God. I was lost in awe of God and His mighty power and His wonderful love, for me. Then as the sermon began Doug preached on a personal Pentecost in our lives. How we have certain traits that we need to confess and give to God and honestly dedicate our lives to Him. It is then that we begin to live at a new level with God and seek Him more fully. I know that was a bad explanation of his sermon, but that’s the short version that I have time to give. Well, God had been speaking to me through the entire service and I was dying to go to the alter. I’ve not been down to an altar to pray since I was saved, so very many years ago. Not that I didn’t want to go, but in my younger years I was scared or just didn’t feel like that’s what God wanted from me at that moment.

This time there was no question that God wanted me down there. So when the altar was opened I was there. This wonderful man by the name of Walter came up and prayed with me. It was like God gave him the words that I needed to hear as he prayed. I was very touched by what he had to say and I was so thankful that God sent him to pray with me at that moment. Since then I’ve felt much different. I’ve faced a little more spiritual opposition, but yet at the same time I feel like I experience God at a much deeper level and that a few more doors, spiritually, have been opened for me. God has been good to me and He continues to pour out His love, grace and mercy for me.

To gain some more readers I’ll try and post more often. I’ll place it on the calendar so I remember to blog, even if it isn’t thing moving and inspiring, just a simple, “hello, I’m alive and this is what my day consisted of” post. My numbers go up and down (obviously a little low lately since I haven’t updated), but I’ll work on raising the numbers. I’ll post this post on Xanga as well to draw the readers from there over to this site.

Drop me a comment and let me know you’re still out there!

God Bless You All,
– J -
www.johnmassie.com

It’s up and running once again. It is amazing what a new power supply will do for a computer. I’m tired. I promise I’ll have a post here soon.

Night,
- J -