Why my life makes no sense...

My life makes very little sense on a daily basis. 

Not because my life is not meaningful, and wonderful and blessed and full.  My life is lots of fun.  I laugh a lot.  I work hard.  I have amazing friends and get to be a part of adventures and activities that surprise me every day.  How did I get so lucky?

Well, I don't believe its luck, but I do wonder how it happened that I get to live this amazing life.

This weekend I went to Winter Retreat.  It wasn't the raucous good time that it usually is.  There was a lot of laughter.  There was a large amount of talking, goofing around, eating, and learning.  However, it also illustrated to me how little sense my life makes.

Here are some examples of my ridiculousness....

First, I have been really, really sick for about 3 weeks.  I was sick, then I was better for a few days, then I was sick again.  It's been ugly.  However, for some reason I still decided to not only go to retreat (which wasn't really an option since it's kinda what I get paid for), but to basically not sleep all weekend.  Ok, I didn't really CHOOSE not to sleep, but I didn't exactly set myself up for sleeping success.  SO, I looked like death all weekend... see below....

 There has been a RIDICULOUS amount of ice and cold weather lately.  A good bit of snow too.  So you would think that we would have had a lot of snow cover for our favorite thing to do at Camp Otterbein, sled.  HOwever, we didn't.  It warmed up somewhat the day before and melted away a large amount of the snow.  That didn't stop us though.  We love our blue circle sleds, we will slide on them down pretty much anything.  So... we did!

 We also really had some amazing stories to tell, lessons to learn, and things to think about.  It was a smaller group than usual, so we had a lot of time to talk and really think about the things that were being said.  Adventure.  Good times.

 We had planned before retreat to have a "winter olympics" event that involved sledding and cheese puffcorn.  YOu probably don't want to know.  However, there wasn't enough snow for the event... so instead some of the "hulless" got eaten and some of it may have ended up... all over the front porch.

See.  These things aren't really abnormal... its just that in combination... this is what I do for a living.  Seriously.  I get paid to hang out with amazing kids and plan things that are ridiculous.  I have the most amazing life.  It doesn't make a lot of sense... but its blessed for sure.

Some things may be changing soon... in ways that are scary and overwhelming and beautiful.  They may go really well and big, or they may fail spectacularly.  Either way could be pretty amazing.  I'm praying lots that God would put the next steps in my path.  I know he has them planned, I just pray that I have the courage to take them.

Life..... RANDOM!

Also, there will be 2 new moons in the month of July this year.  THAT is random information, but it is what I learned at the Red Cross today... so... yeah, can't explain how THOSE things go together!