Russell Street: Back

We walked today. God granted Divine Appointments for Kevin and I today. Praise him for that. I am looking forward to getting to know the new friends that we made today. Please pray for Jim and Tina and David.

The Covenant Ceremony at school was awesome tonight. I can't really explain it but I wish everyone could have been there. God is doing great things around here!

Have a super Monday and Be Blessed!!!

"We didn't start the fire..."

For those of you humming the song I apologize, but I couldn't help it!!! So the story behind the title. For 3 years my favorite Welcome Week memory (which will stay a mystery but I will tell you it involved a boy and a phone number, and now my scrapbook) has gone unchallenged. Unchallenged until last night. I stayed at the school to watch the transfer movie, National Treasure. Everyone else on steering committee went to The Incredibles at the Paramount. I was fine with it, no big deal- start the movie by pushing play-turn it off by pushing stop-simple enough. Well, while we were waiting for it to get dark, we were in the amphitheater, I realized that the lights were on. I called some people and they said just to cover them up with something, so I did the only thing that came to mind, I put boxes over the 5 big lights that shine on the Tower of Light.

This worked fine for, oh about 25-30 minutes. About that time one of the girls said "I smell smoke." Sure enough we start to pull the boxes off the lights and clouds of smoke rise filling the air with that really good bon-fire small. In another circumstance I would have invited this smell to accompany my graham cracker, chocolate and marshmellow, but last night the smell was a fright. After pulling off the first box I flipped it over just in time to see the flames begin to form on the box. Yes it was on fire. I thought..."Hum..if this one is on fire, the other 4 are probably close to it." I was right. We pulled off all the boxes and stomped out small fires on them all.

We moved the movie location to the Living Room in the Campus Center-got kicked out and ended up in the Club house of UP. While everyone (all 20) went to UP one of the guys and myself locked up the sound equippment. I had to go get the tub outside and when I walked out one of the boxes had reignited and was producing a flame too big for me to stomp out. Luckily Will Morris was walking by and took care of it for me. I wish I had a picture of the box to show you.

For those of you who know my history with burning things down I am proud to report that the Tower of Light, The Amphitheater and The Bible Building are still standing. Laugh it up out there. It's funny! We got a kick out of it! Nothin' like a fire to challenge the reigning Welcome Week memory-though I don't know it successfully beat it, it is definintly tied.

Irony...

Jeff got in an accident today. He's ok don't worry. It's actually kind of funny. Mom and I were talking about how we got the best end of this deal. Since Easter 3 of the 5 people in my family have been in wrecks. First dad running a red light, then Val who rear-ended someone a couple of weeks ago, and now today Jeff who also rear ended someone. The irony- mom and I are the only ones who got new cars! I love it!

Welcome Week is almost underway. We start tomorrow at 2 p.m. with opening ceremonies. I can't wait. It's my last one as a student here. Sad...happy.

On a different note. Dad sent this question out as the Roundtable Discussion (if you would like to receive these let me know) for the day:

Do we ever have unrealistic expectations for prayer?


Be Blessed!!!

So Strange...

Being in Abilene is weird. This afternoon I really wanted to get in my car and drive back to Arlington. I praise God for this summer and for giving me a place to work where I fit and where I felt loved and accepted. I miss the people.

Work Week is going great so far. The signs look awesome! I'll post pictures later!

Have a great week! Be Blessed!!!

The time has come....

… to leave that is. This is my last week at ND and I am pretty sad. I really am not ready to go yet. I still have relationships I want to develop and people that I didn't get to talk to as much as I would have liked to, and I want to see the kids throughout the year. I'm not ready. I am well aware of the fact that just because I am leaving doesn't mean all forms of communication shut down, but it's not the same.

It has been a great summer. I would love to talk about it with you so if you want to know call me.

I read a book that Ryan Gibbons gave me called "Practicing the Presence of God." Dad tells me it will be referenced a lot in my life so it was good that I read it. I really didn't get into it until the last 2 sections. I thought those were pretty good. It was a little hard to read just because I had just finished "Blue Like Jazz" which is easily one of the best books I have ever read. Now I am reading "Searching For God Knows What" by Donald Miller, the same guy that wrote BLJ. It's good. It;s a little slower but it is still very observant and thought provoking. I like it.

Life is good. God is good. I like what I do and thank God for the opportunity. Today Greg and I decided that I am going to marry someone rich in the Arlington area and come back and be a full time volunteer for NDSM. I like it!

Have a great day and Be Blessed!!!