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April Fool's Day.

For a prankster like me, it's kinda like Christmas. You prepare for it, and when you pull off a REALLY great prank, it's like getting that present "I always wanted!" Well, what good is a good prank if you don't brag about it and let everyone know what you did?

On March 31st I stayed up after everyone went to bed and set ALL the clocks upstairs forward one hour. I then set my wife's alarm forward an hour. We have to wake up at 6 in the morning in order to get the kids ready and get them to daycare and get to work on time. Well, when my wife woke at 6, her clock said 7. She jumped out of bed and checked all the clocks in the house, trying to figure out what could have happened. "I don't know what happened, Brian, but it's 7 and we need to hurry!!!" I looked at her and sympathetically said, "What'd you do?!! Did you hit snooze too many times?!!!" She ran and told the girls to hurry up, we're VERY late. Poor Shelby (our 6 year old). She looked like a zombie trying to win a race. Me: "Lisa, what are we going to do?!! I have to be to work on time!!!" Lisa: "Allison, you don't need a shower, do you? Can you fix your hair and just get dressed? Never mind... just go get dressed - NOW!" When I saw how upset Allison was and how that was going to affect her day, I grabbed my wife's phone (I hid it the night before after spending 20 minutes trying to find a way to reprogram the time on it unsuccessfully) and showed her the REAL time. She looked at the phone, looked at me, and I said, "April Fool's Day!!" She buried her head in my chest in relief and anger, and my girls both started cracking up laughing, saying, "That was REALLY funny daddy!" The rest of the day my emails from my wife carried the heading, "Dead Man Walking". I deserved that. I think the funniest part to me, though, is that she was angry with me not because it was so mean, but because I set the bar so high, she couldn't come up with a good way to get me back!

Changing gears a little, yesterday was day 1 of my blogexp. I picked that day strategically. April Fool's Day, like I said earlier, is a pretty special day. But as I was thinking about what a fool is, it reminded me of foolish things I do. So April Fool's Day marks my last day of being a fool. April 2nd was day one of blogexp (blog experiment). I am an addict. What I mean by that is, I have an addictive personality, and things get the better of me. My goal is to see how many days I can go without giving in to my addictive nature. For instance, I'm a bit overweight. It's because of my addiction to food. I'm a bit of a glutton. I'm not gonna go crazy and go on a diet, I'm just going to ask for help from God to keep myself from being overwhelmed by my addiction. I'm also 100% committed to spending quality time in God's word every day and praying for my family, my accountability partner and his family, my pastors and their families, and my brothers in the Samson Society and their families. These are my goals, and I plan to journal about how well I've succeeded right here!

My ultimate purpose is to bring glory to God through His faithfulness in helping me overcome my addictions and helping me get into His word and talk to Him more. I read something the other day that really stuck with me. It went something like this: When you want to quit your addictions, most of the time it's because you want the guilt to go away, not because you really want to honor God or be a better person for Him. That's so true!!! Well, that ends as of yesterday. I hope this blog will bring honor to God as you who read this see Him being faithful to His promises. If you know me well and see me around, this is not permission for you to come up and say, "Hey, how's that blogexp going?" or, "Hey, how's your addiction coming along?" If you want to say something, leave a comment. Just try to keep things positive, please. I'm only human, just like you. I have no idea who will read this, if anyone. I just know that now that it's public, I hope that my blogexp will push ME to keep the days going up.

Yesterday was really awesome. I ended my day reading Proverbs 30 because of a friend of mine who pointed out that the writer realized what a scum he was and how much he doesn't understand who God REALLY is. I love seeing that in God's word, because it helps me deal with my own feelings of inadequacy and self-loathing. The Bible is so incredible! I can't wait to see what I'm going to learn about today!

So, until day 2 blog, have a great day, and I pray God blesses you!