well, well, well. here we are, on this lovely, drizzly, chilly day in june (69 today, 90 two days ago!).
to fill you in a bit: i’m working for Jesus now, and part time for my dad, doing odds and ends-type projects for him that he doesn’t have time for, or helping him with putting new videos of classes on youtube. 
kinda fun, kinda out of my comfort zone (really, anything to do with computers is out of my comfort zone!), but it’s been good. and helpful.
in a little over a week, i leave for “daring princess camp”. that should be good. i’m the story-teller for the week. need to get to work on that… i’ve got some great ideas, but they won’t happen without some actual planning and whatnot.
then, deryck and anna and i head down to meet up and go camping with daniel down in tenn., where he will have completed week one of the tenn. CiYs at milligan. daniel is running sound for them for 7 weeks, and i get to tag along, just to hang out! i mean, i’m sure i won’t just “hang out”–how can i kick back and relax when there are so many cool folks to meet, youth groups to hang out with, and helping daniel or the other CiYers wherever i can. i am going to take a few books with me, though, just in case i wear out my welcome or something like that, or get bored, or whatever. we’ll see how this goes…
i’m most likely coming back for a week somewhere in the middle of the summer to help one of my good friends get married to my brother, and see another great friend back from thailand, and spend some more quality time with my best friend who might be moving to chicago sooner than i’d like. *sigh* so much change… so little time…
we’re talking about cultivating a community here in price hill once we get back from the summer! christopher will be home, and has promised his unswerving devotion to us, so we’re jumping into who knows what with him and whoever else is interested. we’ll see where God takes this. maybe a house-rehabbing? definitely being more intentional with our time/money/resources? hopefully a garden? perhaps lots of discipleship and learning from each other? possibly who know what?? the future is wide open!
well, that’s the basic jist of where we’re at and where we’re headed, as far as we know. God may have other plans, but this is what we think He’s said, so we’re going for it, and should He care to lead us elsewhere, then so be it. we just want to be loving Him with our whole heart, soul, mind, and strength, and whatever that looks like, however that takes shape in our everyday lives, that is what it will be. “wherever you go, there you are”, as the saying goes. (perhaps it started as a dr. seuss quote, perhaps plato said it way before him–who knows? but it’s true. so we’ll go with it.)
peace to you, my friend.
