Rainy Thursday

Spent a glorious Thursday morning working on church details: accumulating intern hours; planning the next two cycles of Adullam leader retreats for this fall and next spring; and giving thought to a redesign of Memorial's website. I forget sometimes how much I love strategic and tactical planning. As the old Chinese proverb says, "He who aims at nothing hits it everytime."

It's been a week of such planning as I've started my teaching preparation for this fall's New Testament and Ethics classes at Westminster. It's so much more motivating for me to prepare to teach something than to just be tested on it, and the main difference between this week's study and the past month's of Christ & Salvation has been one of refreshment (not that I didn't enjoy or won't use what I learned in C&S for my New Testament class this fall, of course).

Other stuff I've been doing: having people over for dinner (last four nights); trying to exercise and watch what I eat (I've been slacking a bit); finishing up The Brothers K (good book - best when it sticks to baseball); and prepping for the summer study series Megan and I are hosting Sunday nights in July over the book of James (4:30-6:30 p.m.; eat at 5, so bring something).

What have you been up to lately?

PS: By the way, remember that moral quandry I faced last week while taking my Christ & Salvation final? Well, my grade got posted today and I came out with a B+ for the class, which means I must not have done quite as badly as I thought I had on the final. Whew.