Life lately has been busy but good. This past weekend was the RMM prayer conference and I was helping Teresa cook for it all weekend. It ended up going really well with only a few moments where Teresa started freaking out...don't worry, I reasoned with her and calmed her down. We were in the kitchen pretty much all the time for about 2 days, needless to say, I was pretty exhausted by the end of the weekend. I only got to sit in on one session during the conference and it was really good and very challenging. I was kind of dreading going to a session and looking for a way to get out of it. But I'm generally glad I went, even though it made me face some things in my life that I didn't really want to have to deal with. It's good that I had to face those things and continue to, but to be honest I didn't really want to.
There are a lot of things in my life right now that I am trying to avoid. I don't really feel like going into detail about them, mostly there are just some decisions that need to be made that I don't want to make and some thought patterns that need to be changed that I don't know if I'm ready to deal with. I kind of feel like a hypocrite most of the time these days, which I don't like, but I'm not sure how to change, or even if I'm ready to.
On the up side, spring has officially hit Columbus and it is beautiful. As much as I don't like hot weather, I always get excited when it starts getting warm on a consistent basis. There is more energy in the air and it's nice to see people out and about on the streets....except of course when they sit on their front porch watching you plant flowers and dig up weeds. That's kind of awkward and makes me feel very caucasian. We have been planting flowers like crazy the past two days. I'm realizing how much I like gardening. That should make my mother proud. We also planted some stuff in our garden today, which I am very excited about. The best thing about summer by far is the wonderful food that is grown!
I am officially ready for the activities of summer to start. Our first City Challenge group comes in a month and I am quite excited about that, and also a little nervous. I really need to figure some things out for outreach. But once that first week of CC is through the six month teams will return and then we'll have City Challenge all summer and then the other teams will return and then the new training will start! I am ready for more activity happen around the house, that is for sure.
Well, I think that's about it for now. Life is not terribly exciting, but it's generally good.
