Looks like Pink Eye has invaded our home.
I hope it stays in only one person’s eyes.
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This is the beloved Friday’s Feast
Appetizer
Say there’s a book written about your life. Who would you want to narrate the audio version?
I’m going to go with George Clooney. He seems to have a good cadence and tone.
Soup
Take the letters from your favorite kind of nut and write a sentence. (Example: Perhaps every avenue needs understanding today.)
People I see taking advil could help investigate over-spending.
Salad
If you could go back in time and spend one week in another decade, which decade would you choose?
Probably the 50’s. Not really sure why, but either 50’s or 60’s. Sorta like Back To The Future all over again.
Main Course
Name a song that brings back memories for you.
Pretty much every song can be placed somewhere or at some time in my life. But let’s say, “Pour Some Sugar On Me” by Def Leppard.
Dessert
Do you prefer to wash your hands in cold water or warm water?
Warm..all the way.
Heh heh.
A good friend of mine has recently begun blogging. He’d fought the urge and resisted the pull for a while, but he finally took the plunge and I think he’s going to be an interesting read.
Pat Ward is starting a new church in Oxford, MS which is an plant of a church in Tupelo, MS. The Orchard has been in Tupelo for close to 10 years and they’re now starting up The Orchard Oxford.
Oxford is a different place than Tupelo and will have its own characteristics and culture. But it’s a place ripe for a community of faith such as The Orchard Oxford. I’m looking forward to following Pat and his blog and his church. They’ve been meeting semi-regularly for a while but have just kicked off their weekly meetings this month.
I’m sure there are more exciting things to come out of Oxford.
Yup, the District. The good old capital of our glorious nation. Just The Wife and I. Might meet up with some friends while we’re there. But neither of us have been to DC, so if you have any advice or tips on who to visit, what to see, and most importantly where to eat…let us know.
I’ve gotten a few tips form friends who have visited DC at one time or another. But gotten some great advice from a cousin who lives in Fairfax, VA, and from David Russell who lives in DC and works w/ National Community Church. So we’re really looking forward to it all. Hoping to get to meet up with David at some point and also attend a service at NCC.
So as we plan out the trip, I’ll fill in some more details. But share if you have a “must see” we should know about.
After some time away for no real reason at all, I’m back. I took a little time away from blogs: writing my own or reading others. So either I have a lot of catching up to do, or just going to skip a lot I didn’t read….probably the latter.
But things have been booming lately. We hired a new guy onto our Student Ministry Staff at church. He’s doing great and we’re working well together. And because of some of his ideas and my ideas and his “well let’s get it done right now” attitude, we’ve made some pretty big changes to the youth room and all. W/ still more to come.
Two weekends ago we also had our (now) annual Video Scavenger Hunt. We had a great turnout. But the good thing was the turnout the NEXT week. So many kids came back and brought new kids w/ them too. The telling point will be this next month. When the “new” starts to wear off the semester and so does the initial excitement. But we’re now providing a great hang out time before the night moves upstairs w/ a little snack supper.
And then we’re offering a revamped “game room” of sorts. It’s like a siren call to me when I’m in my office. Down the hall I can hear the Wii and the XBox 360 calling my name. But I’ve pretty much resisted them so far.
But the new semester has been busy and a blur. But good. And looking forward to what’s around the corner.
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I have a bad habit of buying lots of books and not finishing them. So I’m in the middle of four books right now. I’m not going to jump into any others until I finish some of these. But here they are:
- The Lost Message of Jesus by Steve Chalke
- Free Prize Inside by Seth Godin
- In A Pit With A Lion On A Snowy Day by Mark Batterson
- The Starfish And The Spider by Ori Brafman and Rod Beckstrom
All of these were recommended by someone or another except for the Free Prize book. And Seth Godin has been recommended before. But I had a gift card to Books A Million with me when I got that book…got to the counter and was ready to pay. Turns out the card had a ZERO balance on it.
Back in the saddle after a wild week or so.
It wasn’t so wild last week, just busy after being out for an international trip and funeral stuff. But now school is back in session all around here. Things shift gears on the “busy scale”. Not necessarily more/less busy, but just a different kind of busy.
But I’m having a lot of “I want to see this happen” sort of stuff going on in my head. Everything from church goings ons, youth ministry, books I’d like to have read soon, what I’d like to get done around the house, and what I’d like to see happen w/in my family. I think I said it once before, but if I didn’t have to sleep…I’d get TONS of stuff done!
Well, I was on a posting hot streak for a bit…then it stopped.
Just after I posted the last time I called The Wife from just outside of the internet cafe. She said her dad left the hospital to go Hospice, but he wanted to go home for the “last days”. She felt the end was pretty soon. And I get a call the next morning from Mississippi saying my father in law had died in the early morning.
So I had that weight of the entire situation on me at that point. Wow…it was heavy. But I knew I needed to go home to be with my family. So after spending WAY too long in airports all day Wednesday, I finally get back to my own bed in my own house just before 1AM. It’s a long story, but I had to deal with ticketing hoops to jump through, naps in airports, immigration (which is much more thorough coming into the US than into Costa Rica), head aches, flight delays, and total plane switches.
But visitation was last night, and the funeral was today. I was able to see some old friends and spend some time in conversation and visiting with them. It was really good. And lots and lots of family too. It was a bitter sweet funeral. So sad to see him go so early (only 61 years old), but he’d been through a whole lot recently and it was wearing him out til his body was just spent.
I’m still in Tupelo right now. We’ll trek back to Clinton tomorrow sometime. But please keep praying for the fam. Especially my mother in law. She’s been such a trooper and saint. But I think that once the dust settles that things will start to fully sink in. She’s an amazing lady. But be in prayer for her.
And still be praying for my team down in Costa Rica. I keep looking at my watch imagining what they’re doing and where they are and everything. I’ve had people ask me if I was going to go back down there. While it would be quite nice, I just don’t see it happening. But be in prayer for them as they continue to build church buildings, build relationships, and build the Kingdom of God.
Before coming to the intenet cafe tonight, we stopped by the ice cream shop. I was being goofy w/ taking pictures. And there was this couple that were pretty well dressed but looked to be locals. I told Whitten, “Go stand by those people, I´ll take your picture.” He did, but it looked too awkward, so I didn´t take it. T
Then Utah said, “That guy is looking at you, Whitten.” Sure enough, he was. He kept looking at Whitten like he was a dummy. We were laughing. But then the guy says in perfect English, “We´re from California. We understand everything you are saying…”
Suffice to say we felt a little stupid. But we make up for it by talking to them for a while. They are just here on vacation. Been here for a month and a half already. Leaving Thursday. That sounds pretty awesome.
But now I´m kicking myself for us not actually getting a picture taken with them…
