amazing friends

Dee Dee and I had some visitors from Baton Rouge this past weekend. Two friends of ours from Parkview (both are now part of the Ring Community Church) came up Friday. They had been planning this for a long time and the date shifted a time or two. They were trying to get a date when another friend of ours (Angela) could come as well. We thought that all three of them just wanted to come together to see the kids (oh and us too by the way), but when they got here we discovered the real reason for all the planning. Paula and Ann drove the 12-14 hours (depending on how much you stop) from Baton Rouge and arrived here at about 8:15 Friday evening. Paula called and asked if Dee Dee and I could come outside to help them unload their stuff so they wouldn't have to make two trips in the cold. When we walked out the front door of our apartment building we saw Ann with a video camera and Paula holding out a key and asking "Can you give us a ride to the airport on Monday?" Looking around we saw, not Paula's car which we were expecting, but a strange car with a big red bow on the hood. (For those who may have missed it, my car died on me about 5 miles after leaving the Air Force Base where I was training this past summer.)

I still don't think I have the story completely straight but it seems that Ann's old roommate Katy got a new car and wanted to donate her old one to someone who she knew really needed it. Ann told her she knew just the people. They picked the car up a couple of months ago and Patrick, Angela's husband, has had it and has been working on it ever since. A couple of weeks ago their entire community group at the Ring got together and prayed over the car before bringing it to us. I don't know how many people have been involved in this whole thing but to each and every one of you I say "Thank you and I pray that God blesses you as much as you have blessed us. We love each and every one of you."

Semester #3 in the books

I've now completed my third semester of seminary. I took fewer classes this time than I have in previous semesters but for some reason I seemed to be more stressed out this semester. I think part of the problem was that I actually had too much time on my hands. Since I had less to do I tended to put it off longer. Time management is obviously not one of mine strong points and I really need to try to improve on it. I'll get my chance pretty soon. I'm taking a one week course in January so I'll have to manage things pretty well in order to get everything done on time.

Hopefully, now that I'm out of school and life is going to be settled down a little for the next month or so I'll be able to blog more often. We'll see how things go.