I've had a cold the last few days (came on Sunday), but today am starting to feel better. Thank God for healing! Yesterday I felt really achey and stuffed up, then sometime in the night it seemed like my fever broke and the tide turned. It's always so nice to start feeling well after one of these bouts.
I've been reading "Blue Like Jazz" by Donald Miller. It's one of those books that lots of people were recommending for the last year or two. I started it just before moving from Tomball, but then it got buried in the shuffle. Last week I picked it up again and have nearly finished it (three short chapters to go). Miller is not like me at all! The first few chapters I was just not connecting with him, probably more on a personal level because he lives in such a different way than I've chosen to live. But I was intrigued at the same time because he lives in Portland and makes numerous mention of places he goes (parks, coffee shops, pubs, Reed College, downtown, etc.) and they're all places that I am quite familiar with! This far into the book, he has grown on me. Not that I will change my personal habits to be like him (he smokes, drinks, etc.), but I appreciate his thoughts and real-life attempts to make his Christian faith real, true, relevant, down-to-earth, and sincere. I think I see how his faith-walk can certainly better reach many unchurched, faithless people than mine does.
Last weekend I took Caleb & Levi to the Father-Child Retreat at Camp Yamhill. It was beautiful, of course, and we had lots of fun doing things together, but it was also (I hope and pray) a good time for relationship-building and meaningful talk with my two youngest kids. Some things we did: built a sailing boat from foam blocks, sticks, & plastic (we got 2nd place at the "Regatta"!), built a kite, built two wind chimes, went out in a canoe on Sat. & Sun., did a river walk & swam in the creek (where Levi gashed his chin on a rock), went on a hike, did an obstacle course, had fun at "campfire" both nights (Levi got up and told a joke), had some scheduled times for father-child devotionals & discussions, and also had group times of teaching, singing, and such. It was a great experience, even if I did come home sick!
One more note: have any of you discovered "Craigslist"? Lani & I started looking for things that we'd like for our house and have gotten hooked with watching for cool stuff. Check it out! Here's the URL I use, but you can see that it's world-wide, so you can navigate to your own city or area.
http://portland.craigslist.org/
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I read Blue Like Jazz and I too enjoyed reading about the Portland places. I thought it was good. How is church shopping going?
Craigslist is great! And offered in many locations--it has really grown over the years! There is also freecycle.org--best to sign up through a yahoo group. This also is offered in various locations; may need to search for the "best" (biggest) group in your area. A lot of people give stuff away for FREE, and you never know if it might be something you need! I love finding great deals! Good luck, and hope your whole family stays healthy.
I read Blue Like Jazz about 2 or 3 months ago. I could see Jason and a lot of his friends and even myself in late teens and early 20's - that realization that organized religion just wasn't quite cutting it anymore. That there had to be something more - a genuineness that was missing. This was the age of "Jesus Freaks" and doubting a lot of authority (late 60's - early 70's). Loaned it to him, but he hasn't read it yet. I know he would connect, and realize that he's not alone in a lot of what he's feeling.
Sorry you've been sick, and am glad you're better. Summer colds are the pits!
I haven't read Blue Like Jazz yet- although I would really like to because I've heard so much about it.
I'm so glad you got to go on a little retreat with Caleb and Levi. I am sure they LOVED that!!!
Yes- Craig's List is AWESOME!!!! I actually bought Selah's baby furniture from Craig's List and it was a great deal and turned out to be great furniture. I did, however, buy a really ugly cheap TV stand that the person had made look a lot better in the pic than it really was. But, I was a sucker and bought it anyways- for way too much money. I felt so dumb. So- you do have to watch out for people who misrepresent what they are selling and then be assertive if you get there and it's NOT what you thought it was.
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