Facing the music

The Chorus of George Michael's "Faith"---- cus I gotta have faith, faith, faith...
is on repeat playing in my head today. Though I don't know the rest of the lyrics, I am pretty sure they wouldn't apply to my situation.

After a strong showing here playing in Dallas through OTA's and Mini-camps getting bigger and stronger and even kicking off well, Coach Phillips released me today.  He said I did well but it was a numbers thing for training camp. 

I am left a bit disappointed as I felt I was in a good position to play this year, but I have faith that God is both protecting and providing for me through all of this.   I'm extremely thankful for the opportunity to come here and train at Valley Ranch with one of the premier teams in the NFL.  I was blessed to get to know some great guys that play and coach there and wish them all the best for the upcoming season.

As for me, I will be heading back to stay in Cherry Hill NJ, where I am excited to rejoin my amazing Church, Sovereign Grace in their new building.  I am also praying that a job will be around the corner for me as I try to keep in shape in any case of a future call from the NFL.

I am up in the air as to whether or not to continue to blog.. I guess I could still offer some entertainment value for you all and perhaps some humor about some day to day stuff.

Stay Tuned if you'd like, one thing I have learned...
        You don't have to be a professional athlete to have an interesting life!
                   or funny thoughts.

A few helpful verses
1 Thes 5:16-18
Prov 16:9

But more importantly
Rom 5:8  is more giving of joy that the other to me.
But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners Christ died for us!

See yall in NJ

Senior Cit Dinner reminder

As I was running some errands today I became very hungry... I'm talking dinner time hungry.
I then received a text from Jon Stewart that had a time stamp of 5:30 pm, so naturally I figured it was a bit early, but I could eat .....an early dinner perhaps.

I walked into Pei Wei, ordered some sesame chicken, got some water and squeezed some oranges into it.. (quite refreshing by the way) and as I waited for my dinner and thinking it odd I was surrounded by elderly people I looked at my watch and there it was..... 4:30 pm.
WOW... so this odd event reminded me that there have been some requests for another blog entry and on is about due (and its 9 now and I'm starving.. thanks Jon)

Well here we go.. sorry it has been too long and by now there seems to be too much to fill everyone in on fully so... I believe it might be good to give a brief summary, although I am slightly distracted by this weird "Alice in Wonderland" movie I got for free at red box.
---search "red box coupons" in google and the codes really work! -- your welcome


Since last post,
I have been to Dallas Vigilantes Arena game.. they lost to Chicago.
I have had an amazing weekend at NEXT with everyone from Sovereign Grace Church in Cherry Hill NJ. And I arrived back from PHL in DFW at 130 thanks to over 4 hours in my flight delay!
That next week, I played golf once and had 3 ota's, 4 workouts.
On that Friday I became very ill and laid in bed from Friday thru Monday... i kept my blinds shut and stayed in the dark...  pretty vampirical! -- i still dont know what was wrong with me!

Then that Tuesday through tomorrow morning everyday I have had football..  I managed to squeeze another round of golf in though and went to the Village evening service to listen to Matt Chandler speak.. and I have also reigned supreme in online Battleship over Bekah..

We finished finally our OTA's and our only full team mini-camp and then my fourth workout day this week will culminate tomorrow right before I get on a flight to go see Johnny Tsunami get married to Rip Curl Hurls.

Sorry so brief and so little  humor... so little time.

I will do better everyone.... or I will try.

Thanks for tuning in.

Hughes.. out