Wondering about a few things tonight...

Well, the T-ball season is over for another summer. The kids won their first game this morning but lost the second. It was a fun season! Zach will move up to Pee Wee's next summer. He is really excited about that. Hannah... well we will see. She really is not very competitive. Maybe she will just want to cheer her brother on?

I am wondering if I will ever get my history final done? I really need to just make myself sit down and do it. Maybe well I get done writing here, I can try and get through a few more questions. I have four left. It really is just a matter of getting started.

Tomorrow will be another day on the boat! It is supposed to be 87 and sunny! We have been on the lake a lot in the last week which is wonderful! I am getting my vitamin D stored up for the winter! I think it will be just us tomorrow. We can swim and tube and probably use our first place prize from the Fourth of July boat parade to eat supper out.

Exciting news, we have decided that Zach and Scooby will both go on the Guatemala trip this October! It will be such a wonderful experience! Wish Hannah could come too, but she is just too young. Zach is mature enough to handle the new culture as well as the physical labor. I am really excited!

I am working at getting my focus and balance back at work. I have allowed myself to let a few situations and people get me off balance. The trick is finding focus once again that doesn't included the situations and people, but instead includes God and the ministry at hand. The Guatemala trip, the trip to New Orleans next summer, formation of a youth and family ministry board will be great focuses! Part of me actually wants to just run away and not fight to get the focus back, but realize that running doesn't really get you anywhere in the end. Fighting to get my focus and energy back will be more rewarding, it will be a great learning opportunity and in the end will be successful!

I am wondering tonight too about how I will work at contextual ed to be a new experience for me. I look forward to seeing what new ministry opportunities there are at Trinity that I can experience, lead, learn and grow from. We shall see!

Well, we have a family movie playing tonight so I am going to sign off to watch a little of the movie as I sort through some church history.

Until next time...

All Registered for Fall classes

Got up early this morning to get registered for Fall classes. I will be taking four classes this fall. One of the classes is a half class and the other three are full classes. I will be studying the Demonic in Christianity. Yep the devil!

A class that will focus on spiritual practices with some studying of Luther and Bonhoeffer. This is an independent study class that a few from our cohort worked hard at getting set up with Dirk Lange while were at Luther for summer classes. It will be a great class for me as the focus will have a self care component within the spiritual practices. I am learning very early on and in some cases not early enough that self-care which is helpful when it included a spiritual practice is really important! So I am looking forward to the class. It is only open to 15 students so it will be a nice smaller group and I imagine will mostly include folks from Cohort 4.

One of the core requirements in a Synoptic Gospel in Greek so the Gospel for the Fall is Luke. Professor Barreto who taught us Greek on line last Fall is teaching this class. I look Luke in English in the Spring, so it will be fun to go back through Luke with a Greek focus this time. I hope all the work in the English sections pays off! I think it will!

Then I will be taking Foundations of Pastoral Care. The professor is Janet Ramsey and I have heard great things about her! I think he may be retired or almost retired so was glad to be able to take this class with her now, because when it comes up for us in our scheduled time to take it, it most likely won't be her.

Now the next exciting step is to wait for the course books and syllabi to be posted! I love ordering course books!!

I have three projects to finish up yet from summer session in June and then it will be nice to be able to do some reading for fun for the month of August! Or NO reading at all!!

That's all for now.

I wonder if I will make any progress on my history final today??