Our week in a nutshell. Or seven nutshells.
**1**
I am apparently suffering from severe ADD when it comes to my reading list these past two months! What I loved about it for the first 6 months is that I was so focused. I am the kind of person who always has several books going at once, which means more often than not I never finish any of them unless it's a great story. So for awhile I was getting all kinds of reading actually accomplished because I was only reading 1 book at a time (what a concept!) All that came to a screeching halt when I began Pride and Prejudice. I know I wrote earlier that I was enjoying it. Well that enjoyment stopped rather suddenly after the first 1/4 of the book. Wow, I have been struggling to get through this thing for like 2 months now! Last night I had a late night babysitting job while the husband took his wife to the airport for a red-eye and I brought my trusty kindle and made myself read for an hour and a 1/2. I actually am getting back into the story, but good grief this is a wordy, slow book! Sorry to all you Austen fans out there, I don't think I'll be converting anytime soon!
**2**
Last Sunday I was the teacher for this week's confirmation class, and it was a lot of work but really fun. The topic of the week was Worship and the Sacraments and they chose me because as my husband said, "we don't know anyone else under age 40 who gets super excited when the term 'sacraments' comes up!" It's true. I do. It was fun to try to communicate why that is the case to a bunch of teenagers, I'm not sure how successful I was, but it was fun to try!
**3**
We just bought our plane tickets to Colorado for August to celebrate my grandparent's 60th wedding anniversary! I'm so excited to spend several days there with family playing and hanging out together!
**4**
So I've been struggling leading my preaching group this quarter. I've TA'ed for preaching classes a lot, this is probably my 9th group of students that I've walked with through the learning to preach process, and I love it. This particular quarter though, without going into details, has been so frustrating. I have never come across any blatant gender issues here at Fuller. Yes, there are guys here who don't believe women should be pastors, but they chose to come to Fuller, and Fuller is VERY vocal about men and women being created equally for ministry, so they knew coming in where Fuller stood. This is the first time I've seen some blatant discrimination directed both towards me as their TA and towards the female student in the group (it doesn't help that she's the only one). It's been a frustrating group to figure out how to lead, and been really discouraging for me as well. Yeah, that's about all I can share, it's just been frustrating :(
**5**
This weekend is a BIG weekend for our church community! After about 10 years without a full time head of staff pastor we have a candidate coming to preach his candidating sermon on Sunday! Our Pastor Nominating Committee (PNC) has been working so hard for the last 18 months reading resumes, watching sermons, conducting interviews, visiting candidates in their home towns, inviting candidates to come here etc and after all that we finally have the name of a man who looks incredible, who I am super excited about! We'll see what happens when the congregation votes on him on Sunday after the service!
**6**
I got to video chat yesterday with my darling baby niece who showed me how she can almost sit up all by herself without the pillows just like a big girl! She looks so proud of herself, I love it! I get to see her Memorial Day weekend which I am VERY excited for!
My parents latest visit to RI, looks like they read lots of books together!
**7**
This morning I woke up to flowers and an "I love you" card from my husband. Definitely made my morning, he's the best :) I also got one of the best presents in the mail this past week. My best friend knew it has been a tough month and sent me a Pinkberry gift card in the mail because she knew how much I love it. She even had to order it online because they don't have Pinkberry where she lives. I am loving it. A lot.
I am apparently suffering from severe ADD when it comes to my reading list these past two months! What I loved about it for the first 6 months is that I was so focused. I am the kind of person who always has several books going at once, which means more often than not I never finish any of them unless it's a great story. So for awhile I was getting all kinds of reading actually accomplished because I was only reading 1 book at a time (what a concept!) All that came to a screeching halt when I began Pride and Prejudice. I know I wrote earlier that I was enjoying it. Well that enjoyment stopped rather suddenly after the first 1/4 of the book. Wow, I have been struggling to get through this thing for like 2 months now! Last night I had a late night babysitting job while the husband took his wife to the airport for a red-eye and I brought my trusty kindle and made myself read for an hour and a 1/2. I actually am getting back into the story, but good grief this is a wordy, slow book! Sorry to all you Austen fans out there, I don't think I'll be converting anytime soon!
**2**
Last Sunday I was the teacher for this week's confirmation class, and it was a lot of work but really fun. The topic of the week was Worship and the Sacraments and they chose me because as my husband said, "we don't know anyone else under age 40 who gets super excited when the term 'sacraments' comes up!" It's true. I do. It was fun to try to communicate why that is the case to a bunch of teenagers, I'm not sure how successful I was, but it was fun to try!
**3**
We just bought our plane tickets to Colorado for August to celebrate my grandparent's 60th wedding anniversary! I'm so excited to spend several days there with family playing and hanging out together!
**4**
So I've been struggling leading my preaching group this quarter. I've TA'ed for preaching classes a lot, this is probably my 9th group of students that I've walked with through the learning to preach process, and I love it. This particular quarter though, without going into details, has been so frustrating. I have never come across any blatant gender issues here at Fuller. Yes, there are guys here who don't believe women should be pastors, but they chose to come to Fuller, and Fuller is VERY vocal about men and women being created equally for ministry, so they knew coming in where Fuller stood. This is the first time I've seen some blatant discrimination directed both towards me as their TA and towards the female student in the group (it doesn't help that she's the only one). It's been a frustrating group to figure out how to lead, and been really discouraging for me as well. Yeah, that's about all I can share, it's just been frustrating :(
**5**
This weekend is a BIG weekend for our church community! After about 10 years without a full time head of staff pastor we have a candidate coming to preach his candidating sermon on Sunday! Our Pastor Nominating Committee (PNC) has been working so hard for the last 18 months reading resumes, watching sermons, conducting interviews, visiting candidates in their home towns, inviting candidates to come here etc and after all that we finally have the name of a man who looks incredible, who I am super excited about! We'll see what happens when the congregation votes on him on Sunday after the service!
**6**
I got to video chat yesterday with my darling baby niece who showed me how she can almost sit up all by herself without the pillows just like a big girl! She looks so proud of herself, I love it! I get to see her Memorial Day weekend which I am VERY excited for!
My parents latest visit to RI, looks like they read lots of books together!
**7**
This morning I woke up to flowers and an "I love you" card from my husband. Definitely made my morning, he's the best :) I also got one of the best presents in the mail this past week. My best friend knew it has been a tough month and sent me a Pinkberry gift card in the mail because she knew how much I love it. She even had to order it online because they don't have Pinkberry where she lives. I am loving it. A lot.
1. I do the same thing! I read about 7 different books at once! :-)
ReplyDelete2. Wonderful that you are so involved with your Confirmation group!
6.SHUT THE FRONT DOOR! Your baby neice is soooo adorable!
7. How sweet! Love it!
Have a great weekend! Thanks for stopping by my blog! Looking forward to keeping up on yours as well. :-)