awaitingrain awaitingrain's profile Bill Huffhine / 41, Male / Member since January 2008 / Last seen 2 months ago

I am a 39 year old spiritual voyager and navigator on my way out of the known and into the unknown.

I am an apprentice with the Christian Writer’s Guild, a frustrated golfer, and a yearly short-term missionary to South America. My addictions include Starbucks coffee, Amazon.com boxes filled with books, and internet blogs about culture, theology, ecclesiology, and missiology.

I have been married to a wonderful wife for over seventeen years. I'm not yet a father but the loving master of a one-year-old golden retriever named Neo. My wife and I have struggled with miscarriage issues for many years but are beginning the process of adopting a child.

Fresh out of high school I began working in retail and within a short time entered into the management program. After nearly ten years in retail management I found some sanity and transitioned into the newspaper industry where I worked until 2001. At that time I began a self-supported full-time internship to prepare for church-planting. We planted a church in 2002 and pastored until 2005, at which time I experienced a crisis of faith and returned to the newspaper industry.

Today I continue to work at the local newspaper as a marketing manager and editorial board member. I am also in college finishing a degree in internet design and management. Whereas at one time my passion was to be a church leader, today I want to give my life to helping people discover a vision for their life and pursue it with passion while being mindful that the sole meaning of life is to serve humanity. I hope to do this through this website, a published book, speaking engagements, and meaningful relationships with those around me locally and around the world.

The name of my blog, Beyond What You See, comes from a moment in time, while Lynn and I were dating, when she said to me, "You need to learn to look beyond what you see," as I lamented the smallness of my life and lack of vision for the future.

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Awaiting Rain

Awaiting Rain

http://awaitingrain.typepad.com

No nonsense conversation about personal spirituality, social activism, political activism, family, and money

Beyond What You See

Beyond What You See

http://www.alookbeyond.com

"Beyond What You See" is a blog about dreams. Dreams that you are indeed special, even when everything around you says you are not. Dreams that you can overcome the pas…

Keep Us Free

Keep Us Free

http://www.keepusfree.net

Celebrating the historical liberty of the people called "Americans" and calling for the activism necessary to safeguard that liberty

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