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So,
really, I am not dead. I am still here and VERY alive and busy. The
summer is going well. So well that I am pretty tired by the time is
comes free time to blog. I have been doing stuff nearly everyday with
groups of kids from church. Monday, we did our first Monday Mystery
Trip. We went to see Superman:
The kids had no idea where we were headed and it was a good time. Not a bad turnout either.
We are gearing up for Mission Raleigh. It is very close and I am very excited.
Our summer series is going well. Tomorrow I will talk about Abraham and Authentic Faith even when we are uncomfortable.
Jackson is growing like a weed. He is talking more. He even said I love Daddy and I love Mommy unprompted on Sunday.
We
spent about an hour with some neighbors tonight. It was really nice.
They are believers and just moved to our street a couple of weeks after
we did. I like making new friends!
Tomorrow is Wham-o Wednesday. We are going to the City Museum. Should
be fun. I am having breakfast with one of our college kids tomorrow.
Looking forward to that too. Thursday is our free day and I am going to
have breakfast with my Dad. Sweet.
Kendra is going to Atlanta with her mom and sister for the 4th. Her mom
and sister are complete Braves freaks so they are spending a lot of
money to see them in their home stadium.
Aaron and I will be here with the boy through Sunday. EEK!
Spending the 4th with Michele and Dennis, which is our tradition. Should be fun.
That's about it. Buy but boring!
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Very busy. Super Summer was great! Thanks for praying. I am sick and a bit tired but it was good. VBS this week. Preparing for mission trip. All else is quiet. There isn't much else! YIKES!
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It has been a good Sunday. Church went well this morning. My sister and her family and my dad came to the late service and then to my house for lunch. We sat and talked and it was nice. Then Aaron and I had our quarterly Student Ministry Team Meeting. I am not a big meeting guy but it went well. Necessary evils in life can be too much fun! We came home and had some dessert instead of dinner. Also a good time. Basically my life is boring but that is good. The summer is here so I need to enjoy boring days while they last!
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Wow! It
has been so long since I wrote last. My educational career has come to
an end. Can't say I am terribly upset about that. It was a rough last
few days. Maybe God wanted me to be certain I was doing the right
thing. I think I am. I will miss some of my students though. They were
the best part of the year.
My first week back in full time
ministry has been very busy --- very good too. We hit the ground
running. Aaron got here a week ago Friday (the last day I posted). We
went into the office after I got out of school on Monday and started
working on Wham-o Wednesday stuff. We planned all the Reality Check
messages for the summer. I think I will like the Kickin' it Old School: Life Lessons From The Old Testament series. Then we came home and were still eating dinner when the small group guys came in.
Small
group was the best it has been in weeks. I really felt like the guys
were getting into it more than they had in a long time. Tuesday I had a
LONG half day at school. I have gotten past it but man, it was just a
difficult last two days. Really. Then I picked up Aaron and after a
celebratory lunch we went back to work on summer details. We came home
that night and talked a little more about the summer.
Then
Wednesday I spent all day preparing my message for Reality Check and
helping Aaron get the details together for our mission trip meeting. I
forgot that the church whittles everything down to only an hour long in
the summer so I gave the fastest message ever on Ultimate Authority
using Adam and Eve as examples. The mission trip meeting was also
hurried but good overall.
Our mission project for Thursday got
canceled. I had mixed emotions about that because I REALLY wanted to do
it but there was an ounce of relief as the week had been very tiring.
Aaron and I spent our day off watching RENT and having lunch with my
dad. We also detailed cleaned our house. It is good to have an intern
who will help with anything I ask! LOL! We spent a quiet night at home.
It was nice.
Then Friday started with me frantically getting
Super Summer stuff to the MBC. I still have five students to go.
Deadlines are frustrating with this group for sure. I sent off what I
could and I hope that it all works out in the end. They REALLY needed
the paperwork in full but I got them as much as I could. Then it turned
into hospital Friday. We went to three different hospitals in the
midsts of a tornado warning and REALLY bad thunderstorms. We were gone
about five and a half hours before it was all done!
Friday night we spent at the church baking cookies, brownies and Rice Crispy Treats for a bake sale for our trip to Mission Raleigh that we did in conjunction with the MOPS garage sale. We had to harness in twenty teenagers as we tried to bake and prepare. It was fun but tiring.
Then
today Aaron and I were up and at church by 6:30 AM for the beginning of
the sale. We REALLY didn't make much money after costs. We'll have to
see how it all works out in the end.
This afternoon we went to a
little "college reunion" for some of Kendra's friends from college. It
was VERY HOT but I had a nice time. It was especially nice to visit
with our friends Eric and Tara. I always wonder why we don't do more
with them when we get together. We really get along well. Kendra also
enjoyed catching up with other old friends who were there.
Tonight
we visited with our friends Ann and Mel Warden. They are more like
parents to us and Jackson calls them Grandma and PaPa. We hadn't seen
them in a very long time so it was nice to be with them. They just
bought a different house so it was weird. We had that feeling of when
you are an adult and and your parents move. You are in a house with
your family stuff in it but you have no emotional ties to it
whatsoever. Odd. I feel that way at my Dad's house. He and mom had
lived there for about fifteen years but I didn't grow up in the house
and other than the few months we lived in the scary basement when we
moved back to Missouri, I haven't ever lived there. Not a lot of
memories tied to it at all. Nothing emotional invested in the
structure. Shows that the house doesn't make the memories I guess. Just
an observation.
So, then we came home. Jackson was spent and
went right to bed. He never gives us problems. We are blessed at
bedtime. My boy likes his sleep. He had a FULL day of play and was
tired. Kendra went to get food because my family is coming to Parkway
tomorrow and then to our house for lunch. I think it will be good. It
will be the first time my dad has ever been here. I am looking forward
to it. For now, however, I too, have had a long day and am ready to hit
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UNDER 100 HOURS TO GO!
YEA! Aaron gets here tonight.
I pray the weather doesn't delay his flight!
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 - 5 PM
- 88 °F
- Thunderstorms
- Watch for storms
Anyway, I am excited.
Still have so much to do for the summer.
School
is useless today. I got to sleep an hour later than usual and was
almost late getting here. School starts at 7:40. I was unlocking the
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