One Month Anniversary

Today marks our one month anniversary and we are still here and not run away yet. This was also the first full week for me of working and going to school. A bit rough i would say and i am a little ragged now. That may be because i spent every hour on the hour last night tending to my sick middle children (Mikaela and Luke) as they celebrated a festival of vomit. Sorry for the descriptive. My job is great (BORING!; which is good for school) and everyone up here is so open to talking about church and God. It is a little weird for us coming from Austin because it seems that you are almost expected to have faith up here.

Lo and behold, we have not found a church home yet and i can honestly say that now we see just how much Austin Stone rocked the house. The contemporary services up here are more like hymns on crack rather than screaming guitars and hearts on fire for Jesus. we were treated to a God-honoring, but horrendous rendition of Tomlin's song "How can I keep from Singing". Imagine that song done in high-speed opera style. Don't get me wrong, those ladies were worshiping; this i know for sure. i am just not sure they intended for us to join in. All kidding aside, we miss our Stone family and how we rock it out. we are praying for a church home and it has definitely been a burden for me given that i have been sufficiently inundated with Baptist thinking, God love em.

Seminary has been difficult. Kind of how i thought it would be, but i did not expect it to be this painful. Can't wait to see what God has planned because with pain comes spiritual growth so we take joy. The hardest part has been the theological ideas that are being taught however unintentional they may be. i am just not one for titles and especially denominational titles. we are Christians,followers of Christ, no Baptists, Catholics, Methodists, etc.

Okay enough ranting. The kids and mickie are doing well. It stays pretty busy here, but mickie has found a great Bible study she can attend with her sister (i am really excited that they get to spend time together). abigail told me that she studies a piece of Scripture every night before she goes to sleep. she is doing phenomenal with her reading and it will shortly be time to start memorizing Scripture. i told her that we are going to work on memorizing The Shema together. The Shema is thus:

Deuteronomy 6:4-9
Deuteronomy 11:13-21
Numbers 15:37-41

Shalom!