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I should be doing English. I’m feeling all deep in thought, so I’m writing instead of writing. Odd I know. Do you ever feel like your life is in a spin cycle in the washing machine. Thats where I’m at today. So many choices to make, so many options. It’s like ordering a coffee at Starbucks. I apologize in advance for my metaphorical mind frame. Bear with me or just skip this blog and read tomorrows. Either is fine with me. I wont be offended. So here I am in the midst of this barista nightmare, wondering what is good, better, or best. I have always prayed for God’s best for my life. Never one to be half heart about anything is what has brought me here. At this point my options are to order a short and be bored with life in general. Order a tall and wish I had more at the last sip. Order a Grande and pick a very hard decision , but have a known outcome. Or what I’m probably going to have to pick, a Venti; roughly compared to jumping off a cliff blind-folded, lacking a parachute, with my ipod playing something crazy. Hmm  last chance to order a smaller drink.  Well now I think I’ve thoroughly confused myself. I guess it’s hardest to know the answer, but not know how to get there. I always got in trouble for that at school. Um…the answer is seven. How did I get there? I just did thats all.  My dad calls that new math.

Emily got up too early for my liking today. I didn’t sleep well because she woke up at 4 for a little while and my sleeping got all messed up.  I’m getting over my cold, but she’s getting one. I seriously don’t want it back. No returns man.  Either she’s sick or teething. Mostly they are the same symptoms: cranky, grumpy, and her new word “I’m so fustrated.”(both of us!)

We bought the game Quelf while we were in the states. I’m so excited to play it. It was so funny the last time we did. I wish would could play with two people cause then I would have played it like 10 times already with MK. We bought Hoopla too. Its a cranium kinda game. Who’d have thought those would be game titles…My favorite part of yesterdays game was when I was greatly insulted. MK couldnt figure out what I was drawing and it wasn’t working for him, but he tripped on his word when he said I wasn’t exactly “pi-costco”.

Well now I’m feeling a bit more like accomplishing so school work. Thanks blogedy blog.

Home Home

I’m home and up to my elbow in laundry. Yay my bed.  That is all.

Still in Vancity

Still in Vancity. My MIL has pneumonia and is in the hospital. Can anyone say “crappy deal”. Her oxygen levels and her blood pressure were way down, while her fever was way up. That made for very confusing conversations and then a trip to the ER. So we are down here for at least another day. I’m feeling pretty powerless right now. I like to feel useful or helpful, but I have Emily and so we can’t go to the hospital or anything. Morgan is there now. So I’m just waiting and waiting. This week is an excellent example of Proverbs 16:9 “In his heart a man plans his course, but the LORD determines his steps. ”. I had everything planned out for our vacation and where we were going to be, what we were going to spend, how we were going to get there, when we were coming back; everything was planned.  But here I am, not in Seattle, not at Experience Music Project, not buying souvenirs and trinkets for my friends and fam. It’s so funny how things work out. How often we think we can plan the future. The clearer your plans look the less likely they are to be that way. You can predict the past, just look at it and say how it went, but you soooo cant predict the future. Even biblical prophecy doesnt let us clearly see what will happen like we picture it, if it did the Jewish people would have accepted Jesus, but they just didnt recognize him. He wasn’t what they were expecting. What is like we excpect it to be…Jesus. Thats the only thing we can hope for I guess. Because he is who he said he his and will do what he said he will do. I like promises like that. Im wary to make promises ever because I know that I, on my own, am incapable of 100% assuring the completion of that promise. I’m really glad Jesus is able to have the 100% guarantee. Sound like a cheesey bumpersticker, but I’m ok with that. haha.

4 Hour Vacation

A four hour tour…a four hour tour. Lets take it back a bit..

I am still going to get to the paintball story, but prolly once I get home. We had 12 hours at home after Rush before driving to Vancouver, then on Thursday we sat in a lineup for an hour and passed on through to the United States of America.We shopped till we dropped, almost literally. We found a fantastic outlet mall!Then we checked into our hotel and had a lovely italian dinner. We were at a conference on Friday morning at Overlake Church in Redmond. It was really good. I’m still not used to conferences ending at like 4 o’clock, but it made for a more relaxing time. If you ever get a chance to see Tim Hawkins, or Anita Renfroe do it!!! They are soo funny it’s killer. I’ll find you a youtube vid..hang on.

There were some other sessions that made me think WAY to hard for the a.m. Then so hilarious sessions that were really refreshing. My least favorite part of the conference was that Hawk Nelson is playing at Overlake next weekends….grrr. WHY?? This would have been a great weekend for them…seriously. And the Newsboys are next month…GAA.

So then we get to the exciting part My real Vacation. We had our amazing Hotel in Seattle booked and all these cool touristy and awesomely awesome things planned. It was to be day 2 and 3 of our Vacation time ever since we’ve been married. We always go to conferences or stuff like that, but not real vacation. Loon lake is like Vacation, but it doesnt count because on vacations someone else should make your bed and cook. OK not always, but I was just really looking forward to Seattle with Morgan. We truely were sleepless in Seattle.We checked in to our Hotel, which was fantastic, You could see the space needle out our window from like a mile away. Then we wandered around downtown seattle and seattle Center. Everything was closing soon so we didnt go to any of our stuff, having planned on doing most things on Monday. Then we got a phone call telling us that Morgans Mom was too sick, so we had to come home and get Emily. His poor Mom could hardly talk. It was really sucky. So we loaded all our stuff back in the car and headed for the Canuck border.So there you have it a 4 hour vacation. Most definitely the most expensive 4 hours I’ve ever had. Figures that this trip I didnt book cancellation insurance. Then I made the mistake of saying what elese could go wrong…On the way down the disney store was gone and on the way back it was there, but closed…..Seriously… I was hoping to look there for cool stuff. dumb store hours fly-by-night company….
Well this concludes this episode of strange things that happened in my life. I’m sure it will make a good sermon illustration at some point.

Rush 08

Wow where to start…ok so I had a family birthday party with my parents on Thursday night. It was really fun. I got good and spoiled. I got Star Wars for the Wii(YAY Coco and I are back in action) and Cranium for the Wii too. I got Stardust on DVD. Some incredible camel scupltue things and a neat tunic shirt. And Illustrator, but I knida go that before. I got a itunes card too, so I downloaded some new tunage. Shawn Macdonals, and The After’s new album too. They are super.

Then we headed out to Rush in Kelowna. For a weekend that is shorter than Avalanche Im still feeling pretty stinking tired. We got to our Hotels and thought there must be a mistake. We ended up with King sized suites. They were amazing. And I’m pretty sure everyone tried on the bathrobes. haha. The first night was pretty good. Ended it all off with a Family Force 5 concert!! It was so awesome. My favorite part was when they sang “Ugly People put your hands down” and so I put my hands up and looked over to see al the other leaders bobbing their heads, oblivious to what they were unknowingly saying about themselves. It was pretty funny.

The next morning we had another session with this guy named Bart Campolo. He’s from a ghetto. He does minustry just by living there. We really liked that he was real and transparent. He told some stories that made him look bad. It’s almost unreal to see someone else tell a story that doesnt end with him looking good, or at least funny. It was just nice to not have to put this guy on the “he’s so great” list. He talked about being a lover of Christ for real. By loving the unlovely, and choosing a few people to love. Starting there.  On Saturday night Geoff Moore Sang and shard from his heart. I remember Hearing Geoff Years ago, and not being impressed because I was young and his music wasnt, but this year I was really impressed. It was great. He made me cry. His wife and Him have adopted 2 little girls from China. The story of how one of the girls was brought to an orfanage made me weep. He said at about six the little girl looked up at him and said “Daddy, while I was in China waiting for you and Mommy to come get me, Did God know my name”. I was weeping at the thought of someone dumping Emily just because of her sex. It was overwhelming. Geoff is also with Compassion Canada. Her talked about sponsor children. I always get overwhelmed and want to sponsor all the children, yet somehow we never end up sponsoring even one. I guess partly cause its a big commitment, and actually a fair bit of money. It sound reather selfish, I know, but in high school me and some friends got a sponsor child at a concert, but couldnt do it well and had to let them go. It was heartbreaking, and I couldnt stand the thought of doing that again. Morgan and I had talked about it lots before, but I would always forget about it and go on until the next time I thought about it. So this time, Morgan looked over at me and said “This time”. So we put up our hands and someone handed us a packet and we got a picture of our little guy. Kwikiriza Nicholas. Hes a 9 year old boy from Uganda. So precious. Emily calls him Kwikeeza.

Then on Sunday, the service was pretty good too. Except they made me cry again. They showed this video of a family who had a baby with alot of problem and the baby only lived to be 99 days old. They celebrated the babies birthday every day at 4:39 and took pictures. Little Eliot wasn’t supposed to live to be born, so it was amazing that he lived to be 3 months. It was awful hard to watch. Everyone was crying. It was hard to understand why they would show that, but then they had another guy come up and talk about his little boy who is 1. His little guys had lots of problems too and has never left the hospital. He was just talking about how much he loved his little boy who is messed up like how God loves us who are messed up. I pretty muched sobbed all morning thinking about Emily with all her tubes in her nose and wires and how she could have died too. I guess I do understand that love a bit better as a parent. It’s really hard to get, but I can see it a bit. I found Eliots video, but don’t watch it if you dont want to cry.I can’t make it embed for some reason, so here is the link http://www.godtube.com/view_video.php?viewkey=c975d005cd2c4d261f7f .
I think I’ll talk about painball later… love you all…