LIfe

This is what my life looks like every day, in case you are curious... you know... informing you about life here.  These are my demon dogs, aka. the pups.  This is their favorite place to spend time.  They literally take up my entire bed.  They are HUGE.  But I love them.  Whenever I think about moving I always think first thing about how much I would miss them.  Maybe not the part where they leave their hair all over everything and lick big wet spots on the carpet, but I love my pups. Seriously.  I know they are just dogs, but look at those little baby faces.  SO sweet.

I've been thinking a lot lately about taking a trip.  A long one.  I don't know when or what will happen.  I have some pretty weird plans floating around in my head.  I've been praying about it for a while and it just seems to keep looking like it could happen.  Reality?  I don't know if it will... but I hope so.  I hope I get together my nerve and just jump.  Because it could be AMAZING.  It could also fail in spectacular fashion, but I don't really do much of anything that couldn't go horribly wrong.  I worry that if I don't do it, I will always wonder if I could have... so maybe it is time to live up to Go Big or Go Home. THe idea of failing spectacularly is pretty interesting actually.

Oh life.  I need to be back where I can wear my chinelos in the very near future.  Socks, shoes, and cold weather are COMPLETELY OVER RATED.  Just FYI.

Home again from a warm, foreign land

Well, the Sulphur Grove Youth and Young Adult Mission Team returned late at night on New Year's Day from our week in the Dominican Republic.  I would love to say that our trip looked like this the whole time:

 But alas, it actually looked a whole lot more like this:

And a whole lot of this:

Our week was humbling and heart breaking.  It was eye opening and amazing.  It was funny and full of laughter, but hard and full of challenging conversation.  We read the book Make Poverty Personal... and boy did we.  Now we are stumbling and foundering, looking for how we can actually live what we learned.  But we're doing it together and working to make our trip count.

I'll tell you all about it sometime... sometime that is not now, when my brain is overwhelmed with so much to do and catch up on.   I've been in my office just 2 of the last 7 weeks... so there are a few things I am a bit behind on... what with working at a church and Christmas and all. =) 

More to come.... more to come...