Students are coming back from trips overseas, and I have had brief chances to catch up on their experiences. I had some friends come back from a short stint in Central Asia and a neighboring country, and it has been amazing to hear the ways that HE is working daily in the lives of people around the world, often in ways that even they do not realize, and continuing to open doors and opportunities. I've also been catching up on people through their postings and writings on various blogs and it has truly been a blessing. Technology has made communication so easy, and yet we often find ourselves painfully lax in taking advantage of it. I had one such experience earlier today. I checked my messages on myspace the other day (which I probably check about once a month) to find out that a classmate and friend of mine from HS had recently married and moved to Waco. She asked me to drop by and see her at her work sometime. She had sent me the message a month ago, and I had only found it now. I dropped by her work today, only to find that she no longer worked there, and her coworkers had thought she had moved out of town. An opportunity lost, not just to reconnect with a friend, but to connect with two people struggling to find themselves in a new life, in a new city.
I think I have been sleeping too much. The reason I know this is that I'm no where near tired when it is time to get to bed, and I wake up very very early and can't go back to sleep for a really long time. At least I hope that's the deal. There are obviously other possibilities. The thing is I've also been pretty emotional lately. Now don't get any crazy ideas or funny images in your head - no, I haven't opened up the door to find it raining outside and suddenly burst into tears, but seriously, I've been pulled and shaken and moved by thoughts and images like I haven't been in a while. HE is up to something, I don't know what, but I have a feeling it's amazing.
Did anyone watch the World Cup Final? It was an amazing match. I have to say that the sequence of events around and through the Zidane headbutt incident was the wildest thing I've seen on TV in a while. I mentioned before that this World Cup has made an international soccer match fan out of me. These past few weeks have been the first time I have watched a soccer match all the way through. One thing kind of puzzled me however. Did anyone see the trophy presentation? This was the first time I had seen the World Cup trophy. A year of hype, one month and 64 matches later - a lot of commercials, one match changes everything, joga bonito - anyway, all for this little trophy! Haha, I know, I know, it's not about the trophy... but seriously! I don't know what that says about Americanism or Amer
ican sports and championships, but I think it probably helps that it is 11 lbs. of solid 18 karat gold. The man-law commercials state that if two people's saliva touches it is technically a kiss. So I'm watching all the Italians surrounding the trophy and the whole team is kissing the globe at the top of the trophy. And all I could think about was that is a lot of sweaty guys combined with a lot of saliva touching!I finished the D.A. Carson book, and am moving on to Dan Kimball's book on the Emerging church and another run at David Crowder's Praise Habit. Hopefully that will offer me enough respite from highschool boys the rest of this week.
We have a college minister coming in view of a call on the 23rd so if you think about it, offer some pr up for that as well. In the meantime, the leadership that is here is getting busy stringing together info, lists, calendars, leaders and such for the Fall.
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