Far Too Serious

I have been far too serious. Julie was determined to not be defined by cancer
and I talk about it too much. So, I'm going to make a more concerted effort to
focus on the other things going on in our lives. 

We got away for the weekend and we stayed at the Coeur d'Alene Resort.
I know it's not exactly adventurous to go to a hotel in our home town, but it's a
5-star humdinger of a place and we got a winter cut rate deal. So, I'm a
romantic tight-wad home-boy. (But the lake view was beautiful & the
accommodations were great). 

I've planned a workshop for senior high school kids and their parents tonight.
I teaming up with our youth pastor and young adults pastor to help those kids get
connected to ministries in the college's & military bases they plan to attend.

I remember going off to a college where I didn't know anyone and struggled with
home sickness and tried to act like everything was okay. I was on a floor with a
bunch of out-of-state athletes who all seemed to handle the transition just
fine. It wasn't until Christmas break that we started to open up and found out
that we all felt the same way. I was both relieved and mad that we hadn't opened
up sooner. 

When we sent our kids off, we said our good-byes, we cried, they left, we
started to rediscover ourselves again and were enjoy it, then those crazy kids
boomeranged back into our lives, home and wallets. We gradually had
going-and-staying-away parties for each of them. Now we'll start the count
down for our grand kids.

Anyway, our goal is to help Christian seniors at each of schools in our area to
get hooked up with ministries & Christian roommates so they can have both
support and accountability to maintain their faith walk. We lose too many of our
kids if we aren't more intentional about passing them off after graduation.

There, that was more uplifting for me to write and probable for you to read.
I'll try to keep it up.
Greg