Unconditional love

Holy Cow,  I can’t believe that this is already week 6 and that it’s almost over with…that means only one more week of volunteers and one more week to finish up our projects.  These past few weeks have had so many happies and of course a few crappies along the way.  It’s so hard to find time to tell all of you about everything even though I wish that all of you could be here to experience everything. 

Ok completely random interjection to all of my thoughts…right now I should be paying attention to the beginning of our meeting and one of the youth just walked in and prayed for us, and it was incredible.  He just said how God had chosen each of us to be here and it was one of the coolest things.  It’s these little moments that make me want to stay here forever. 

Week 5 was wonderful, the churches who came not only interacted incredibly with each other, but also with us as a staff.   They cared for us so much and really went above and beyond to make sure that we had one of the easiest and best weeks possible.  One of our GLs Mike, was a floater and literally the best thing ever.  Every morning he would get up to go to hardware with us, aka wake up at 5:30 to get in the car with a semi awake staffer to drive to home depot and load/find an entire van full of goodies…maybe this sounds fun to you…but I struggle doing it once a week, but everyday that’s dedication.  Each night he would come to our office and just impart his wisdom upon us, seeing him go was the beginning of a lot of tough goodbyes. 

I also think that this was one of the most challenging weeks in terms of motivation and passion for me.  We are pouring out everything we have and it is so easy not to refuel on God in the midst of everything which leads straight to the struggle bus. 

We have had two really awesome weekends…

1.     We went to a minor league baseball game, although I couldn’t tell you anything about the game, I could impart many things about the pictures we took, the gift store, the laughs, and the awesome ice cream that we at out of cute little plastic baseball caps.  Our evening was finished out by a midnight parking lot dance party-  crucial part of every staffs existence.

2.     SPOOM…or the society for the preservation of old mills.  Marv…another really awesome dude who is on the board for ASP owns a mill just about 35 min from our center, so we went there took a tour, rode all around his property on gators, watched the sunset from swings, enjoyed a delicious dinner on real plates and with placemats, and had a campfire.  Then we had the pick of 8 different real beds… something I haven’t seen for about 2 months.  We enjoyed a relaxing morning on the porch and came back refreshed to work.

This week I also got to take a day off, I met up with Kristen and Jolean in Anderson County….it was wonderful.  We not only had some awesome conversations about God’s unconditional love for us and how we can share that with others, but we had a picnic and went geocaching.  If you’ve never been before, you must go…I will take you.  It’s like treasure hunting for big kids!

Anyway things are going swell, thanks for all the mail J and for your prayers.  One more week left- it’s crazy.  Pictures to come soon :)