Currently Reading Let the Nations Be Glad! 2d ed. By John Piper see related

I guess it's about that time. Update time. I know you're all on the edge of your seats, anticipating what will happen next on the Lael Show.

Not a whole lot.

Sorry to dissapoint.

I biked a very hefty trail today. Without water, just to show I'm tough.

Just kidding, my bike just doesn't have a water bottle holder yet. Luckily there were water fountains placed at stategic points along the trail. Otherwise, I may have spontaneously evaporated. But hey, at least then I would have become part of the water cycle and I could come back to rain on your plants and make them grow.

Moving on...

I had a random conversation today with a Starbucks employee. I was trying to brush up on my Russian over a nice cup of deliciousness (i.e Breakfast Blend). He was sweeping and it was just a nice get to know you kind of a conversation. I love sporadically getting to know friendly people. It's just something so beautifully out of the ordinary. So he was waiting for friends to come meet him after work, and through random conversation I learned that he broke his arm in a 7 car accident. See the good stories you pick up from strangers? Now I can say I know a guy who broke his arm in a 7 car accident. Great for parties.

Man, Jon's doing/learning some brilliant things out in California. I wish I could be out there too. I actually was planning to do what he's doing this summer, before he knew that's what he was going to do (make sense?). But Nathan's (my brother's) wedding kinda got in the way...who gets married anyway?? (except cool people) Well, now I'm going to Russia, so it worked out in the end.

I've been in think hard mode lately. It's even better when I'm buzzed on coffee.

I never realize I miss coffee until I drink it.

Thanks to Julianne Nabb, I've found an awesome church here in Tulsa. That's nice.

I'm reading a very good book right now. That's also nice.

I am a very happy individual.

"Missions is not the ulitmate goal of the church. Worship is. Missions exist because worship doesn't. Worship is ultimate, not missions, because God is ultimate, not man." ~John Piper

This was terribly lengthy...

Currently Listening Keep It Like a Secret By Built to Spill see related

Hmm...I'm home. Isn't that supposed to be a good thing?

I'm home. I didn't fall off the end of the earth...well, unless you consider Fort Smith, AR off the end of the earth. Some might be willing to debate the point. Don't tell the Arkies I said so, they might riot and lynch me or something. Just kidding, I love Arkansas and Fort Smith is actually way more interesting than Broken Arrow...until we get our Pei Wei, that is.

I was gone for a week visiting the lovely Jonathan Crabtree. His sister came and picked me up last Wednesday, and we did some serious vintage shopping here in Tulsa before hitting the road. It was glorious. I bought a fabulous yellow sixties dress---all of you should be very jealous. Jon's plane was late and didn't come in until Thursday, but when it did...that was pretty glorious too. He didn't have a razor in Amsterdam, so he was sporting the mountain man look. He had some pretty amazing stuff to tell. The Red Light District is a pretty twisted place under all that terrible glitz, but God is working even there.

Jon just dropped me off here at home a couple hours ago. That makes me incredibly sad.

I can't wait to do some serious biking. Feel free to join.

Russia feels so close now.

But first LA...training.

Luckily, Jon will also be in LA doing some missions training. An anticipated reunion. 

Well, that's it for now. Take luck friends...I want to see everyone many a jolly good time before I leave!

 Two weeks!

(contrary to how this appears, we are NOT drunk in this photograph)