Spoorts Page - Inside Cover

Welcome to the Spoorts Page!  I am entering the world of blogging and hope that you will persevere with me.  I am following in the footsteps of my wife Debsue aka Stop Her, She's Knitting.  She has been at this a while and I admire her ability to compose seemingly random day to day events and thoughts into a coherent, frequently funny post.  Unlike her, I am an audible guy and it is harder for me to compose things in writing.  But I am getting there.  This is the inside cover of the book showing the author's biography.

Where did Spoorts come from?  Well, in college, I was sort of perceived as a dumb jock image and being from New Jersey, one of my fraternity brothers anointed me with the nickname with my subtle east accent.  Nobody really calls me that, but I have kind of kept in reserve.

My first priority is Jesus with whom I have had a relationship for nearly 30 years.  There is nothing more important to me that getting to know Him and live life in fellowship with Him.  It has nothing to do with circumstances.  In fact, the harder life is, the better I know Jesus.  It makes it hard to pray because I pray for discipline and nobody likes to be disciplined.  Can you imagine your kids praying for discipline.  Life is abundantly hard and there are days where I simply have trouble even getting out of bed.  But get out of bed I do and most days my first 45 minutes are spend in prayer and bible study.  I currently am studying in the Psalms and also just finished a study by David Jeremiah called Signs of Life. I am using James Montgomery Boice's sermons to guide me through the Psalms. 

I have been an entrepreneur for over 22 years.  Hard to believe.  I have now run four businesses.  For whatever reason, God seems to put me in the path of new business ideas.  My gift is not one of idea conception but of making the pieces fit together and fine-tuning the vision to make it successful.  I am fond of saying I have never had an original thought in my life.  It certainly has not been without struggles at times but with God's grace, we have persevered.  I fully trust God has put me in this position.  I currently run a business in the golf industry and spend also a lot of time with a company in the telecommunications industry. I didn't look for either of these but they fell in my lap and so unless God calls me somewhere else, this is what I was anointed to do.

I am past the midlife point having just turned 50.  My kids are all adults now.  One is out of the house in New York, one is about to get married, and one is a freshman at Wheaton College.   Much more about them in later posts.  Our life is in the midst of change as we sell our house and "rightsize" our life.  This has been a freeing experience as we have learned that we can do quite fine with a lot less.  So we are making our way through life and seeing what God does to "rightsize" us.