a small morsel of literary perfection

It's been a few weeks since an update, I apologize. I spent the last weekend at the beach with a short term work team. These teams come in every week or two to help with our building projects and usually spend their last weekend at the beach. Since it was my birthday, I graciously volunteered myself to go along and help escort them. I know, I truly am a selfless person.

I have learned a few things over the last couple of weeks.
1. It's hard to control a class full 5-year-old dominican kids. I started teaching a few PE classes at one of our schools and the little one's are pretty difficult to keep in line with my limited spanish abilities. They run around the playground, jump on me and each other, chase butterflies, and generally ignore everything that I say, but we have fun anyway.

2. The christian life is more than singing hymms and praise songs in church, reading the Bible every day, and appearing friendly and very christianlike. I havn't discovered exactly what this life is about, but I know it's more than that, it's more than appearing as christians are suppose to appear. Christ gives us two commandments, love God and love others, what exactly does that look like? To truly love God and to truly love others, is that really even possible? How do we reach that point where God and others are really (and I mean really) more important than ourselves? That's my reflective thought for the day, like I said, I don't have answers, it's just what's been on my mind.

3. Spanish--not the whole language, but I have learned some spanish.

4. Don't spend too much time hatless in the sun with a short haircut, sunburned scalp isn't especially pleasant.

I feel like I've offered a well-rounded update, some stories, some rambling that probably makes no sense, some things I've learned, and a short boast about being at the beach while most people reading this are freezing their way through the brunt of winter. I have truly offered a work of literary genius.

until next time...