playing catch up.

all sorts of crazy things have happened since i last posted. i moved out of my house. i gained two pounds. all my life went into boxes. dixon came to hope in the city. laurie came home from the caribbean and the other laurie got engaged to a man she only met a week ago. all my family came up from florida and trey caught my ice cream at amy's. we spent lots of time at robin and billy's and finished the capstone project. we presented and answered the questions and got told that we were head and shoulders above. billy and i both cried by the end; i felt like i talked like myself. hung out with robin and rachel and fed the birds with zach. mariana learned to write her name. i had a major revelation in st. david's about trust in the lord with all of your heart and lean not on your own understanding. spent a day at the office with clark, learned that he is way cooler than i knew, and that i think i will like my job. we found a new home for mr. squigglesworth the fish. watched brett be a rock star and teased him about his cut-off khakis. taught lots of latin to small children and realized that i love this batch of kids but they just don't want to actually work.

how true that is that so often we just don't want to work. and how true it is that i don't want to have to walk this out with god and just have to sit here and feel helpless... i want him to fix it and make me right, here and now. but i am learning to abide, and deep really does call to deep.

i am glad to be here, but i am ready to go home and unload the car and have some quiet and get away. have to work on the sermon. if anyone wants to talk to me about prayer, please call or let me know. it's all about finding out what god wants to do and asking him to do it.

i am not much further than that.