recklessly dreaming

I have successfully placed all of my belongings into a dorm room - right now there are a few paths - one to the bed, one to the bathroom, and one to the closet. 120 Edwards will be my home for the next few months. i am living in a sea of boxes - slowly I will wade my way through it - but not now. I am fine as long as I can get to the bathroom and the door.

Texas is hot
Boxes are heavy
Moving is soooo fun

maybe i can be a professional mover

Here is something that I posted on 2nd-storey the other day….

I am reading Leonard Sweet’s Post-Modern Pilgrims: First Century Passion for the 21st Century World - here is a piece that caught my eye as I work with both youth (this summer), college ministry (I’m coming Kansas), and yet am a part of a body of believers that embodies many generations - and both moderns and postmoderns.

‘I plead guilty, and am guilty, of being a man of his time. We are all time travelers. Even Jesus existed in time. The question I have to face in my wn ministry is this: Will I live the time God has given me? Or will I live a time I would prefer to have? Postmodern culture is my here and now. I will take the church back to the cyberage, or will perish in the attempt. I live my life between two metaphors: (1) the pioneer who has arrows in his back, and (2) the slow buffalo who always gets shot I am constantly aware that the difference between a leader and a martyr is about three paces.’

(Please don’t misunderstand this to mean that Sweet expects the church to become completely postmodern. He is however aware that the church has completely neglected postmodernity - and is calling the church to realize the times in which it exists - a call to the greater cuture around it - but not a call to conformity -
in fact Sweet uses the term no po mo in his notes to refer to the church saying no the postmodern culture.)

Well I have started my ministry blog for the 2004-5 school year - A way for me to communicate more frequently with my supporters (of all kinds) and to share photo and help foster a community (ie comments). I am going to keep it simple and I need to figure what links go on there (there will not be one back to this site or the other blogs I post on - seperation of blogging) - I need to edit my profile to get a real picture and remove my other blogs. Well I am off so that I can be at an 8am meeting tomorrow.

Other than my rouge footer which has decided that it would rather be located in the sidebar than at the actual bottom of the page - my new look is now up. I am just slightly excited to have blogspot host the comments now rather than having to use halso scan (although it served me quite well - farwell haloscan).

I am tired - its nrealy 3am and I am actually about to head to bed before i have to get up and begin it all again. I am now full swing in the camps office - between that, packing (getting ready to move into the dorms for the summer), spending time with firends and a roomie who will be taking off in just over a week, needing to be working on fundraising, and I am sure I am forgetting at least one thing very important - my day planner has become very very full. (There is a bug flying around my room - I’ll be a pacifist tonight and not go a hunting).

well - i am off to find sleep before the morning finds me.