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Thanks for stopping by! If you would, leave your name, where you are from, and some comments below. I will not remove or edit comments except for foul language or treating someone (including myself) with a lack of respect.

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on May 28, 2008 at 10:07 pm | Reply David W. Shelton

Hey Thomas!

Glad to see your site – great work!

See ya!
David
on May 31, 2008 at 5:17 pm | Reply Clarence

What a beautiful, loving corner of the web for your beautiful, loving message!

It suits you, my friend!

Glad to know you’re here (in both the electronic & the cosmic sense)!

Peace to you & your family ALWAYS!

Clarence
🙂
on July 11, 2008 at 4:49 pm | Reply thecondition

James Townsend
Charleston, WV

Thanks for getting in touch!
on August 20, 2008 at 11:09 am | Reply David

Are you tsfgodguy?
on August 20, 2008 at 11:14 am | Reply tsfgodguy

Yeppers…Hi Dave!
on August 20, 2008 at 9:22 pm | Reply David

Okay, well I had deleted yo from the blogroll because I was doing some blog cleaning but I got you back on. Sometimes it is difficult to remember who is who. You have been a regular at SE but I didn’t make the connection with your site and and your wordpress name. Well anyways I will check back. Have a good evening.
on September 12, 2008 at 10:25 pm | Reply modernmarch

I would add Matt Chandler for sure. Maybe a Tim Keller or C.J. Mahaney in that stream.

modernmarch.wordpress.com
on October 17, 2008 at 7:58 am | Reply Charlie Baughn

Tom

Not sure if you remember me or not, but we went to school together in Johnstown.

I came across your website and just thought I’d take a moment to say hello.
on October 17, 2008 at 11:53 am | Reply tsfgodguy

Hey! Of course I remember you! How could I not…..I’ll send ya an email……

Blessings!
on July 22, 2009 at 8:20 pm | Reply Jean Hypes Kucel

Hello , I`m working on the Hypes family tree. I`m sorry to bother you, I`m just looking for information if you have any. I have alot but I`m always looking for any tiny bit I dont have. Thank You for your time.

Blessed Be , Jean Hypes Kucel

(my father was ; Charlie Thomas Hypes)
on July 23, 2009 at 6:59 pm | Reply Clarence

Dearest Brother Tom,

I’ve been dealing with so much in my life right now that I have inadvertently neglected so many of friends (whether “real world” or “cyber”), but I want you to know that I think of you often and that I keep you & your family in my prayers.

Speaking of prayer, I wrote a post on my own blog entitled “Dear God: Thanks For Nothing!” in which I have written sort of an open letter to God. I hope you’ll stop by and read it.

The link is http://undoingthedamagemrcswildride.blogspot.com/2009/07/dear-god-thanks-for-nothing.html

Just want to make sure you know, the title of the post is not exactly indicative of what I wrote. As I said, I hope you’ll be able to find the time to read it.

I’d love to know what you think of it.

With Love As Always,

Clarence
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on September 4, 2009 at 8:20 am | Reply Hulk

Hi Thomas,

you responded to my questions and statements on somebody else’s blog.

I appreciated your openness and honesty.

I may have given up on church, but I really like what I saw in you.

I hope one day I can find a church that is that open

Hulk
on September 4, 2009 at 9:45 am | Reply tsfgodguy

Hey C! Stop by anytime..I miss ya brother! Praying for you even now!

Hulk, as I put in the email….thanks for the kind and humbling words. Prayers for you as well my new friend….
on September 4, 2009 at 7:45 pm | Reply Clarence

I gotta say, if this world were full of more “emerging conservatives” like you, I could actually learn to tolerate conservatism! 😉

Love to you always, dearest brother!

Clarence
🙂
on September 4, 2009 at 9:09 pm | Reply tsfgodguy

Just give me a little more time and I’ll convert you with my “conservative” agenda – =)

Love you too brother!

Thomas
on November 11, 2009 at 11:22 pm | Reply Latrinda

Hey Tommy, I love your website!
on January 26, 2010 at 7:03 pm | Reply Gary Roberts

Hello from Austin, Texas!

Found your blog and love what I read and see. (Including the Cades Cove picture. It brought back some fond memories.)

Thanks for engaging other in your conversation of grace.

Gary
http://garyroberts.wordpress.com/
on March 31, 2010 at 11:22 pm | Reply patsy costner

Like I said, I stumbled on your site while looking up Free Book by Brian Tome. My husband and I love going to Cades Cove. Do you live in Tennessee. My son, Matthew, is a minister living in Nashville, TN. ( matthewcostner.com ) He is planting a church in East Nashville, East Nashville Community Church. We live in Shelby, NC. We have a Marion so I wondered if you live there. If so we had dinner at Golden Fried. Like your work. God Bless.
on March 31, 2010 at 11:42 pm | Reply tsfgodguy

Thanks Patsy! We don’t live in the Smokies but love going there whenever we can. Usualy a couple times a year.

We live in Marion, Ohio so a little further down the road =)

Prayers for your son… I will check out his site……

Blessings!
on May 25, 2010 at 9:56 am | Reply Regan

So why am I just finding this? We really need to communicate more. Just sayin’
on October 31, 2010 at 4:58 pm | Reply PATTY

Love your site Tom
on March 25, 2011 at 10:16 pm | Reply Clarence

Thomas,

First of all, thank you so much for stopping by my website to say HI! Just so you know, you NEVER have to remind me who you are…you are firmly planted in my mind and in my heart, dear brother! 🙂

You may have noticed that I haven’t updated my website lately, but it’s all good, as the kiddies say! 🙂 I’ve been pretty busy in my REAL life, and at least SOME of my e-life has been inadvertently given short shrift. God’s got a lot of work do on me yet, I suppose! I am seriously considering starting another blog, but I haven’t had much time to think about it right now. I am sure you are painfully aware how much I like to write (Understatement of the Year or what???? 🙂

Growing as a person and as a Christian isn’t always very easy, is it?? Maybe it’s not supposed to be…not that I enjoy the pain associated with creating a new me.

I remember–in the darkest days of my closet “life”–crying out to God, “Why does my life have to hurt so much?” Until my last day on earth, I will always remember what I KNOW was God’s answer to me. He said, “Because those lessons we learn in pain are lessons we will never forget.” I may never be able to convince anyone that it was indeed the Father’s voice I heard in my head, but that’s not important to me anyway. I KNOW they were the Father’s words, and that’s all that matters. Anyway, those words come back to me now as my life is undergoing upheaval. I’m not saying my life is awful…it is not…I am thankful for all God has given me, and all He is still teaching me.

The imperfect human in me just fears being out of my element, and out of my regular routine, but I do my best every single day to remember that His eye is on the sparrow, and I know He watches me, as I become a new creature in Christ.

I know God loves me, and He wants a joy-filled life for me, and that I must learn to stop standing in my own way.

Some days, though, I feel pretty weary all the down to my soul, and sometimes I wonder if the weariness will ever relent, but then I remember my so-called “life” in the closet, and I am reminded that I have endured so much worse.

I guess there’s a reason they call them “growing pains”, isn’t there? 🙂

Please know that I keep you in my prayers, as always, and that I miss our regular e-conversations, but I hope you know that I am always no further than an email away!

In Christ’s Love, dearest brother,

Clarence 🙂
on January 9, 2012 at 12:23 am | Reply Amy Hammer

Tom, This is an awesome place on the web. Way to go man!!! Keep the Word rocking along!!!

P.S. I still tell the Foot, foot, and foot joke. I know you haven’t forgotten that one. 😉