Dave Moran

So, I remember saying something about wanting to “maintain” a blog here in addition to music updates… yeah, so far haven’t done that at all. I do still want to do that, even if just to have a place to air my thoughts that I wouldn’t otherwise get to, outside of my wife and kids, and usually the kids are too busy climbing on stuff (like dogs) to listen.

We spent a week at the beach recently, and I finally had the opportunity to take some uninterrupted time to read Wild at Heart by John Eldredge.  Amazing book that every man should read.  I won’t attempt to capture it all here, but suffice it to say that I feel a renewed sense of responsibility to my family to be the husband and father that they need and deserve.  I also feel the need to now get away in the wilderness for a few days, just me and God, to try to rediscover (or maybe find for the first time) the adventure that is set out for me to live.  (So if you know any good places, let me know!)  Again, awesome book, great read for men and women.

And then there’s this – while at the beach, we noticed that our 2-year old boxer had begun limping pretty badly.  Long story short, she has a torn ACL, arthritis in both knees, and bad hips.  We can’t afford the surgery, nor am I certain that we would pay for it anyway, considering the full litany of problems, so we’re left with prayer as our only option.  Does God’s blessing of healing extend to animals?  I mean, He is certainly able to do it, but does He?  Another book that I’m in the middle of is Sun Stand Still by Steven Furtick.  Not usually my kind of book, it talks about the fact that the same God who made the sun stand still for Joshua in the Old Testament is still willing and able to perform these mind-blowing miracles for us today.  Again, a full synopsis is beyond my scope here, but at one point Furtick says that most of his time spent in school obtaining whatever theological degree he has is already boiled down in the first two lines of a common children’s prayer:  “God is great; God is good.”  Or as Psalms 62: 11-12 puts it:   “One thing God has spoken, two things have I heard: that you, O God, are strong, and that you, O Lord, are loving.”  The whole point here is, God is a loving Father able to do whatever He desires.  As ridiculous as it might sound, I broke down about this dog.  Iris is easily the coolest dog you will ever meet.  The idea that she might need to live in pain (or worse… well, let’s not go there) completely destroyed me.  And there was nothing I could do, not even pay someone to fix her.  So I prayed:  “God, I don’t know if you heal dogs or not, but I know you love me, and I know you’re able.  I’m asking you to heal my puppy, as a child would ask his daddy.  Please do this for me.”  I felt more faith in praying for this dog’s healing than I have in a long time.  I can tell you that she didn’t start jumping around and barking in tongues or anything, but I have faith that God will heal her if He sees fit.

So that’s life as it is right now.  That and I turn 30 in a couple weeks, but that’s for another post (if I actually ever do one again).

p.s. If that part about barking in tongues offended you, chill out – I spent time in a Pentecostal church, so I’m allowed