I could not give a specific conversion experience since I grew up in a strong Christian family. Perhaps the greatest change as I get older is that ideas once purely intellectual suddenly become very real. It is one thing to confess on the abstract level that all men are horrible sinners and in desperate need of God's grace. It is quite another to have been tempted and struggled just enough to feel this reality. I think God has been most gracious to me in letting me see and experience my own depravity so I would really learn to surrender everything, abandon all my self-reliance, and reach out to God. So I think God has really worked in my life the last couple years in ways I did not realize at the time.

Every day I run two miles to a bench off this river. I like to sit there and pray before I turn back home. It is a wonderful place for me to meditate and think.

Passionate, caring, intelligent, and quick. I like to be kept on my toes a little.