i've been asked to preach in two weeks (well actually it's a 1 week and a half), so i've been doing a lot of writing for that. which leaves me with less to write about for pspd. i like that preaching teaches me, perhaps more than it teaches other people. i like having an opportunity to study a topic with purpose, and to really challenge myself. so far it's always been a very positive experience.
now that we're nearly into mid-may my allergies are putting up a fight. i've been medicating which keeps them from spiraling down into a mess of inchiness and restricted breathing.
i've developed a liking for fruit-to-go. it reminds me of fruit-roll-ups, only way better. i always feel like i'm eating candy, when it's actually just dried fruit.
bren is flying out today for toronto, then istanbul, then johannesburg, then mozambique. where she'll be til next friday, before doing the trip in reverse, with a layover in istanbul for several days. a love of travel is one of many things bren and i have in common. she's traveling for work and is leading a workshop all next week - she's an international development consultant (which a mouthful, huh? it takes almost as long to say as my work email address). i like it when she emails me from far away and tells me about the slow internet, because i can feel her contentment and her joy at doing something she loves.
i read a great line today in my book, it said "sometimes we speak out to change the world, and other times we speak to try to keep the world from changing us". i thought of shannon when i read that. of the flack she's been getting from a girl on facebook because of her pro-peace stance on the census. i'm proud of shannon. she's standing by her convictions, and even if it doesn't change the world this time, it will not get the better of her.
now that we're nearly into mid-may my allergies are putting up a fight. i've been medicating which keeps them from spiraling down into a mess of inchiness and restricted breathing.
i've developed a liking for fruit-to-go. it reminds me of fruit-roll-ups, only way better. i always feel like i'm eating candy, when it's actually just dried fruit.
bren is flying out today for toronto, then istanbul, then johannesburg, then mozambique. where she'll be til next friday, before doing the trip in reverse, with a layover in istanbul for several days. a love of travel is one of many things bren and i have in common. she's traveling for work and is leading a workshop all next week - she's an international development consultant (which a mouthful, huh? it takes almost as long to say as my work email address). i like it when she emails me from far away and tells me about the slow internet, because i can feel her contentment and her joy at doing something she loves.
i read a great line today in my book, it said "sometimes we speak out to change the world, and other times we speak to try to keep the world from changing us". i thought of shannon when i read that. of the flack she's been getting from a girl on facebook because of her pro-peace stance on the census. i'm proud of shannon. she's standing by her convictions, and even if it doesn't change the world this time, it will not get the better of her.
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