The March Gang

Well It has been a little while since I have made a post.  Everyday there is something new that I think I should blog, but if I did that every time I wouldn’t be getting much of anything else done.  So sit back and enjoy, this may be a long one.

You may be wondering what is up with the title.  Well I have to give Kudos to Mr. James Ramsey for the title.  He actually made a very good joke about my Internet situation.  As you have seen in a previous post we got our phone and Internet hooked up and it was one week shy of being a month to do so. Since then my Internet has been awful.  It is DSL and slower than dial-up.  In the last ten years I have worked for two ISP’s. In no way do I know it all and will be the first to admit it.  I manged and worked with guys who were and are far smarter than me.  I do however feel I can hold my own in most situations. Well when I called tech support to discuss my speed issues I was given this answer. “Mr. March since you haven’t had your service for more than 10 days there isn’t anything I can do for you at this time. Call back in two weeks and we can see if it has improved. It takes at least 10 days before you reach your full speed potential.”  I was speechless and considered it par for the course.  I could only imagine my DSL modem as the Little Engine that could.  It is sitting over in the corner of the room saying “I think I can, I think I can get faster than dial-up”.   When I shared this story with James he said “Two things that get better with age, wine and Irish Internet”.  For all my Geek friends I will keep you posted on the Internet woes

Well now on to other things that I am excited about.  (Believe me the Internet isn’t one of them)  Church has been awesome ever since we got here. God has been doing some wonderful things and I can see the church here is getting ready to explode into revival.  I come from a revival church, good ole West Point, and I can see a lot of the same things I witnessed the last three years here at Greater Life.  That being God getting ready to take a church on a journey.  I thank God every day for Pastor Chuck and the wisdom and spirtual insight he instilled in me.  I also thank Him for taking me from working under a man of vision and putting me to work with another one.  Bro. MacFarland is awesome and he is a man with a vision.  God is getting ready to pour the Holy Ghost out on this country and I truly believe that Gilford is going to be the hub.

I have to share with you our Sunday service this past week.  It was a special service where we took communion.  It had been awhile since the church had had a communion service and Bro. Mac just felt it was needed.  I have been in a lot of communion services and I have to say this was by far the most powerful one.  The spirit of God moved in such a mighty way it was amazing.  The power of God was so great that even Simeon, who is four years old, felt it.  He was sitting in Tara’s lap and just crawled out of it and knelt down in the floor with his head resting on the seat.  He sat there for a few minutes and I knelt down beside him and what I heard made me start crying for joy.  He was sitting there just say “Jesus, Jesus, Jesus”.  He continued to do this for a good five minutes.  Like I said God was in the house so powerful that even a kid who has trouble sitting still most of the time was touched and moved to pure reverence.  I was one proud Daddy!  On the way home he told us he thought he would pray again the next time we were at church.

Well I have one more story to share with you.  Me driving on the “other” side of the road.  To say the least it has been an experience.  It for sure has been one for my passengers.  The only thing I was having trouble mastering were the Roundabouts.  Now if you look at this image it can be a little intimidating, but they are aren’t all that bad once you get the hang of them.  Anyway I have only been driving down the road once and had to have someone tell me to get on the left side of the road.  That was Bro. Mac and he was as cool as a cucumber about it.  He was looking down at his iPhone and didn’t even look up he just said “Riley get on the left side of the road please”.  In my defense it was a very narrow two lane road without a center stripe.  It was so narrow that it could have passed as a one way road.  I’m just saying!  Anyway my first time driving was with David.  He let me drive his car so that the first time I did drive it wasn’t test driving a car to purchase with a salesmen.  Yeah that was fun too.  Anyway I am driving along with David and we are talking when all of a sudden we hear something beside us.  It is at this point that I discover that I am being passed by a man on a scooter.  Yes I am ashamed to say a scooter, not a motorcycle, but a scooter.  Not only did he pass me but he just about ran off and left me.  I looked over at David and said “I am guessing that means I can speed up a little huh?” He and I were so involved in my driving lesson neither of us realized how fast I was going.  We got a good laugh out it anyway.

One last thing…It SNOWED today.  We had some crazy weather, very unusual weather for Ireland.  It snowed about 30 min or so.  It didn’t accumulate any but it was pretty coming down.  Ireland is cold and wet in the winter, but gets very little snow.  If it does snow it usually comes during January and February.  Well if this is an indication of the winter we are going to have we are in for a treat.

I am working on getting the pictures we have so far uplaoded, but as I have already stated my Intenet isn’t making that easy.  I have a few here to share with you and hopefully will have more in a few days.

Take care everyone and know that we love you all.  Thanks for the comments too we really like those.