Urban Idealist

I haven’t written in a while…Not because there has been nothing happening…quite the opposite! There has been a lot happening and I’ve been really busy! School is still going well. It’s getting harder, but more interesting. I was getting bored.
Church stuff is going really well and there is a great feeling of momentum on our staff and with the people in Vintage. We just had a rockin Thanksgiving party this past weekend. I think there were around 100+ people that came throughout the day. We ate four huge turkeys (Butterballs from the States, I might ad…that’s a funny name…Butterball…why does it entice me?) and a ton of other things. People from all over the world were there. At one time there were four Kiwis…that’s people from New Zealand. 4 out of 2 million is pretty impressive! The party got finished around 11 and we went home really tired.
The next night we had Sanctuary at Bob and Kendall’s. Frank shared from the story of Jesus walking on water and we spent some time in worship and prayer. It was really simple, but exactly the way I like it to go. Bill (guy from Chicago doing an internship here with his family) is a great drummer and he played djembe with me. It’s really impressive what a good percussionist can do with one drum! Anyway…Bob and Kendall had volunteered to watch the kids this night and it was fun hearing them sing and play in the other room. Bob and Kendall have a gift for making people feel loved and I know the kids experienced that on Sunday.
After Sanctuary I headed down the Royal Canadian (a restaurant/bar) to watch NFL football with Greg, Christian, and Driana (’Gene’). The Colts were playing and I wasn’t going to miss it…I was actually the last person to leave at 1:40am! I had to be absolutely positive that the Colts were going to win when I left! I took a cab home (the first time I’ve ever taken a cab by myself) and got home at around 2am. I reeked of cigarettes (because smoking is allowed inside most everywhere in the world other than California!) so I had to take a shower. Got into bed and woke up to Jen wanting to jogging together. I hate jogging…it’s not a sport and it never feels like it accomplishes anything other than making my back and knees hurt..and on this near freezing morning…my ears ridiculously cold. But I went…and my knees hurt and my ears felt like they were going to freeze off, but it felt good to be outside getting my heart going. I should be more thankful that I can jog instead of complaining about it! The rest of Monday was full of emotional heavy lifting…the kind that hurts, but makes you stronger. I’ll write about this in another post later!
If you’ve finished reading this…you’re either my mom (hi mom), Jen’s mom (hi Christine), or you have too much time on your hands! Thanks though…It’s just that sometimes I feel like talking about nothing, cause the serious stuff hurts my brain…