Sorry so long....

Well kids its been a couple weeks since the last blog so my apologies. I am sure that each and every one of you are in eager anticipation of another deep and overly spiritual post. So...here it is....

We are in week 3 of training now and my head is all over the place. God's doing something deep i think. I've yet to put my finger right on it but man its gonna be a good one. God has been tweaking parts of my life that i thought were the stable pillars of my faith. What the hell?...i thought at first...now its more like...What the heck? :-) So seriously, i want to just have this figured out already. Learning and being shaken like this in a brand new environment/climate sucks.

YET...God is good. "Taste and see" as they say and without the availability of a hole in the wall San Diego famous taco shop/taqueria every block,...i've been tasting quite a bit. That was an awkward line to understand so let me translate. I don't have the spiritual/christian strongholds (also known as my friends back home) to rely on like I so (and probably overly) did for 4 years in college. I can't taste of them and look to them for visions of God's goodness. God's asking and even commands for much more in our lives. Taste the LORD...don't taste friends, or church, or spirituality, but taste of the Lord...then and only then will we see that the Lord is good. Even as i write this my mouth begins to water in savory anticipation.

(Day Break)

So on top of all that I've received my first assignment and unfortunately even as bad a i want to share the location i cannot. If i tell you i might have to kill you...seriously, its that out there. I definitely did not see this one coming. However, as I was told about this place I realized that God is sovereign. It all makes sense...questions, complaints, they all make sense. Ok, God i think i might get a little bit of whats going down.

On a non spiritual level...we are trapped indoors from the cancellation of work do to our first hurricane warning thingy. No work, no stores open, nothing to do. But i've had a good chance to sit and read...here's a passage that i can leave you with from Donald Miller's "Through Painted Deserts"

"We are one day out and home seems an ocean away. My watch ticks inside my boot. I don't need it. I'm not late for anything. there is no disgruntled friend waiting for me at a coffee shop or office. The people I used to be surrounded by are getting along without me. I am in the van, south of Dallas, heading I don't know where, and i have to tell yo, it feels pretty good. I wonder, though, if the good feeling will last. I do this with good things; I think joy into its coffin; I analyze too much. I don't want to think about life anymore; I just want to live life."

More discussed later friends and fam...love ya