Reflections on March

I realized suddenly that I haven't updated this thing in about a month, here I am again. Not that it's that important, I'm pretty sure nearly no one reads this.

Life has been good lately. We've been pretty busy at the house. Many exciting things have happened and I just keep hearing bits of good news all the time...life is exciting! This weekend is really busy because we have a group of women here from Shiloh, about 40ish in all, and we all have to preach our final sermons for VLI tomorrow morning, so between making food an cleaning and doing dishes and preparing sermons, today has been quite tiring and full.

I've been doing a lot of thinking lately. Mostly about God and my future and life in general. It's been good, I have been challenged. I would write more, but I'm kind of tired and nothing is coming to mind. What can you do, sometimes?

One thing that is very exciting right now is that this weekend marks the end of our month long "fast!" For anyone who doesn't know, the four of us staff have been living on a food budget of 25 dollars for the past month, as opposed to the usual 200 dollars. We did this out of a conversation about being rich Christians and decided to give the excess money away. It was a really good experience. We definitely all got very tired of eating nothing but carbs and protein, but we are all glad we did it. We were all amazed at how God provided for us during the month and we actually ate really well. We found quite a bit of meat in dumpsters and a few very generous friends shared from their bounty that they collect from dumpsters as well. A few health problems did result from our not eating many fruits or vegetables, namely that a few of us have come down with a bit of scurvy. So we're all taking our multivitamins and dosing up on the vitamin C as much as possible, so hopefully the scurvy will clear up soon and none of us will lose any teeth! So the fast is over on Sunday and we plan on celebrating...woo hoo! We are however, planning on continuing to use less of our budget than we have been every month and taking more from the dumpsters so that we can continue giving money away every month. It definitely helped us to see how well we have it in this country and how spoiled we are when it comes to variety in food choices.