Tim Boyd's Blog

Every January I get down.  A few years ago we decided it was a lack of vitamin D.  It's the vitamin you get from the sun that makes you happier in the summer.  So I started taking Vitamin D. Recently I have been down.  I don't really show it to anyone but my wife.  I blame it on whatever seems to be happening that day or week.  I think I know what the problem is. My depression comes from selfishness.  I start to get sad and I start to close myself off from spending time with people.  I start to become a time-czar.  "I don't want to have anyone over because I never have a chance to just sit and do nothing!"  What a stupid phrase and what a stupider thought.  I always feel better when we have people over to our house.  (And who actually wants to do nothing?) Depression comes from self-focus.  Self-focus fades into self-interest and then into selfishness.  Selfishness lends itself to insecurity, lack of trust, and lack of faith in others.  Then I start to feel

Mindy and I have a blog about our international adoption journey.  You might want to check it out. Friday, January 22, 2010 Right now Tim and I are watching the program to raise funds for Haiti. My heart is breaking looking at all the children who have lost their parents. In one orphanage they had 200 babies. These are God's babies with no one to love them as they deserve. Watching this program puts a burning desire in me to do something now. I want our son home now with us. I want to hold these babies in my arms and rock them. Maybe God is tugging at your heart about adoption. Maybe He has just planted a seed deep in there. If God is knocking at your heart don't shut Him out because the journey seems so old and long. Keep praying. We are at 640 dollars still. Only 98% more to go. = ) Please pray that the money continues to come in. We will be sending out the second set of letters to people who live close to our home. Please pray that right now God begins to soften their hea

I used to spend a lot of time comparing myself to other people.  I see that in my kids now.  They want to see who is the fastest, who is the smartest, who is the tallest, etc.  It gets so out of hand that they have adopted one of the phrases that Mindy and I say to them all the time, "It's not a competition."  You know which one says it the most?  It's the one who is losing.  :) I still compare myself to people all the time.  I'm just more selective and hidden about it.  Whenever I hear about someone who works at a church I always wonder what they are better at than me.  Then I start to make a mental list of why I am good at what I do.  Then I start to get jealous and upset.  Finally I do my best to stop thinking about it and just enjoy doing what I am good at. In Galatians 6:2-5 Paul writes, "Carry each other's burdens, and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ.  If anyone thinks he is something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.  Each

The first day of January I performed a wedding.  The second day of January I performed a funeral.  Life in all it's wonder and beauty.  On our planet there is a birth, a wedding, and a funeral every day.  With each day that passes the population of the earth changes.  Never again will we have this group of people all together.  We all happen to find ourselves on earth at this time on this day.  There is no special meaning to this post - just pointing out some of life's interesting moments.