Hey everybody, it seems like over and over I keep saying I’m going to start posting more and then I write a couple posts, followed by the obligatory post on how I promise I’m going to start posting more. Who knows if I actually will.
Here is however, an update on my life.
Our missional community is growing together well. We’re going through some growth pains and trying to figure out life as a community and such. It could be easy to feel down about it, but I also see so much potential that it makes it hard for me to feel too worried about it. I eally love our community and I think we are just starting to get the ball rolling towards being something, maybe a community that is engaged more and more with our neighbors? If we do that, I’m fine with us staying a small community for a while.
There’s a good likelihood that I’m going to be doing a stint working full-time with Hachisoft doing software development stuff. It could be easy to start feeling stressed out about that and think it’s going to be bad, but I think the challenge of a new task and one where I iwll have to work my tail off for a while will be really good for me. I’ve always learned best by being thrown into the deep end and attempting to swim. I think it will continue to be true, and I’m excited to see how taking on this new thing with Hachisoft will help me develop myself as a developer.
Braxton and I are getting ready to move into a different apartment in our complex. It will be nice, it has an extra room, which I plan to use as an office. I think having an office is going to help me with my productivity, both with Hachisoft and with church stuff. At the least, it will be less distracting than having my desk be right next to the kitchen of our current apartment.
There’s one more thing, maybe the biggest difference out of all. Last month, I woke up one day and was thinking about a friend who is in Korea for a year doing an english teaching program. So I sent her an email telling her I was thinking of her and hoping that she was doing well. Long story short, that email turned into a lot of emailing back and forth, turned into long conversations on chat, turned into me realizing while I was driving home to visit my folks that I really liked her, turned into me being in a long distance relationship. It’s been really, really good. And not something I was really anticipating. I actually have looked back at it a few times and wondered where the thought to email her came from in the first place. It really was out of nowhere!
Because of things popping up with the long distance relationship thing, having the extra hours at Hachisoft will be an added bonus, because I’m hoping it will mean I can save up to fly out to Korea and see her this fall, which would be really great.
Okay, that’s it for now. I do promise you, I’ve been thinking about the blog. I’ve got a book review for the Ooze Viral Bloggers that I will be publishing this week, with another short to follow after that. And I’ve been thinking about some other things as far as direction. I think I’m going to move more and more towards primarily pastoral writings and writings exploring what I believe to be the essence of Christianity, and maybe less on strategy and leadership and being strategically missional. Those are all good things, they just aren’t really what I’ve felt like my passion is towards.
Oh one last thing. I got told today that my look is very natural for me. That look being the combination of tanktop with striped hooded sweatshirt and beanie and plaid shorts. My words don’t do it justice, so I’ll attach a picture I posted on Flickr.
