To start, it has been an eternity since I have seen or heard or said anything to any of you all back homewards in good ol’ Oregon country. And I am just starting to recover from the shock of the new, and the warmth of feeling is returning along with the unwelcome companion of homesickness.
To start out, I left on the 23rd of July and visited my childhood babysitter and her growing family, my sister, Glacier National Park and Ron and Connie Clark a wonderful couple that housed us while in Spokane doing all of the moving in stuff.
Anyway, to put it plain, I didn’t just deal with Covid weirdness, I moved and started college in the middle of it. Life is super crazy right now. I’m sure I will feel much better in a week or two when I’ve had time to attend all of my classes and sort out some kind of schedule. Just now I am feeling a bit more “normal” and just ate leftovers of mom’s lasagna and nibbling some dark chocolate. So hello all!
A few points of interest, I’m alive and healthy, getting good exercise: parcore, basketball, volleyball, swimming, etc - being a boy. I’m still looking for good trees to climb out here, thoroughly enjoying all my classes except for the masks and extended hours in a sealed room with little oxygen to speak of much less breathe. The guys in my house are awesome and most play music, so we have lots of worship/musical/opera music sessions. I cant wait until they figure out how they are going to make worship work for chapel so I can play on one of their worship teams. And our first year class is going zip lining instead of camping.
Anyhoo, please let me know if you have any prayer requests, they will go in “the book” as always and be prayed for. Here are mine:
- Mom dealing with another child moving away.
- Praise, we found a van before we left and its a good one!
- Studiousness and focus, a keen edge on my time with God, no depression.
- I am taking a CLEP test for Algebra tomorrow, so I can save $1200ish, and not repeat a lot of math over. I need to PASS.
- Figuring out a schedule, and figuring out how I’m going to do my tutoring lessons for a job with all that other stuff thrown in.
- That I would have a soft heart and a thirsty soul for God’s Word as well as my instructors teaching.
- That I would be wise in how I construct friendships now in this community, because I’m going to be here for a long time.
- That I wouldn’t lose sight of the simplicity of what I am going after in the mess of all the complicated stuff.
- That I would choose to worship, everywhere in my life.