who would have thought this little 136 page book would be the wild goose at the end of a long chase?! saturday i set out for ambridge to read this book in order to write a paper that night and sunday - well. . . that would prove to be harder than it seems. i'm sitting oh so quietly, which i know is hard to see me being quiet, but i was! i was lounging on a soft sofa reading said book when security come over to me and asks me who i am - now the desk guy knew i wasn't a student - but i was sent over to the lib. from the lady in the book store - he told me i could read the book as long as i didn't leave the lib. with it - so i'm thinking it's okay - i was wrong - security proceeds to tell me that i would have to leave - so, i pack my bag up and head out - i spend the rest of the night driving all around the area trying to track down this book - which i didn't find. i was going to go to grove city college and read the much thicker alterative book but due to the ice storms yesterday - was unable to do that -- so, i get up today and call the lady at the seminary bookstore - she tells me they do have it after all - i venture back to ambridge and explain my adventures on saturday to her - at that same time - said sercurity boy come in and takes over the story -- he tells me he was sorry for being so rude and says he didn't have all the facts - but now it's monday morning - my paper is due today -- well . . . i'm a bit late - my prof nows and is okay - i will have it done tonight and emailed in w/o any deductions - God's gracious! -- my point is -- in a way - i'm glad i couldn't read the other book - it sounded too technical and sciency for me - this book is actually really good - and more practical to my daily walk - not to mention it's shorter! i've been a student all day - minus the few church visits and donation box visits i've done -- it's been nice to put being a student ahead of work in both areas of my life. even in being a student i'm still the mission worker - God's blending my many worlds to fit together -- sitting in the beaver lib. today reading - i sat beside a young guy who had a book i purchased at ollies a few months back - i asked him if it was good - we started talking about the whole emgerent church thing -- come to find out he's a pastor in new brighton and actually has heard me speak on the mission - i've been to the new brighton clergy meetings once - he told me to stop over some time -- stink'n cool - in the past few months He is opening several key doors in beaver county for the mission -- it's cool for me to see this - i've spent so much time hitting and missing in meeting pastors and trying to get our name out there in five years at the mission -- what will be even more cool is when we have an office in the area -- doesn't hurt that i may be at my church -- and krispy kreme - wow - saturday night at hanging with diane and her boys -- fun but more importantly i got to share more about my walk -- she's like a big sister type - the whole catholic thing aside - i can see and sense she is open - she asks questions all the time - and last night carol -- who would have thought the songs God puts in my head that i allow to blurt out in singing would lead to being asked to bring in my praise and worship cd's to listen to on sunday nights -- so - next sunday we will be listening to david crowder, matt redmen, chris tomlin, and my boy arron shust instead of bobfm!
okay - need to go and finish my paper!
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