A month without a post.

Well, like most every other person who has tried to maintain a person blog for any extended period of time, I must apologize for the dropping the ball for the past month. I have been quite stressed/distracted and have either not been able to write or just couldn’t bring myself to commit to all the work that goes into opening my computer, turning it on and the typing out a couple of thoughts… yes I know how lazy that makes me sound, but it’s true.

While I was away:
We went to youth camp in Oklahoma for a week and had a great time hanging out with the kids. My highlight there was watching our kids during the worship time… actually just watching on of our kids, a girl named Haylee. Coming from a sub-culture in the church where worship is taken as an overly-dramatic, solemn experience that sometimes resembles the same level of seriousness as a teen-age emo girl on a rant it was so refreshing to watch Haylee worship. She was dancing around, jumping up and down and making up motions to go with all of the songs… all the while absolutely cracking herself up. She was having the greatest time, looking ridiculous and putting everything she had into it. When other people may have seen her as being disrespectful or distracting, I saw as being genuine and worshipful in a way I never considered worshipful before. I say this because it would have been impossible for a loving holy father to have not smiled down with great joy watching Haylee have so much fun. It was very cool.

The next week… my computer crashed. Microsoft in all their wisdom and skill gave windows the unique ability to just randomly drop half of its operating system. This made it impossible for me to back-up my file through burning DVD’s or using an external hard drive so I had to pay the Geek Squad $160 to take my hard drive out and do it for me. It was not cool, but everything has been reinstalled and is working fine now.

Then… Amanda’s office took everyone to a Royals game. It was so much fun, the Royal won and I got to see Sammy Sosa hit a homerun in person… that will be something to tell the grandkids about… to which they will respond, “Wasn’t he a juicer?” Her office paid for all the tickets, they were awesome. He had “All you can eat Box Seats!” This meant that there was a special concession right behind our box that we could get all the free food we wanted for the first two hours of the game. The greatest feeling in the world (the way I can most rationalize what heaven must be like) is sitting at a baseball game eating a hotdog. It doesn’t have to be a good game or a good hotdog but when you put them together there is nothing that even comes close. I had 5 hotdogs, 4 Dr. Peppers and a bag of peanuts… I could have died happy that night. It was very cool.

And finally… yesterday I got to preach my first full sermon on Sunday morning at Church. It felt so good to communicate and connect with people again. It brought me so much joy to offer hope into people’s life. I spoke from 1 John and got to explain my understanding of what it means to be a child of God. It was a great morning. It was very cool.

That’s what’s been happening. I try to continue to stay on top of it.