back at acu
I am currently sitting back at ACU, outside at the Hardwood Cafe (yes that is what I said). I am spending today and tomorrow here before heading back to Manhattan, KS Tuesday morning. I have loved being back among friends these last few days. Yesterday afternoon I went to the wedding of a former campus minsitry chum of mine - along with a beautiful wedding (Congrats Alisa and Matt - enjoy Hawaii) I got to spend time with some good friends. Dean commented, old seems to come faster in campus minsitry than other places and weddings seem to be a good marker of time. (A side note to all of my friends that went to Christian universities - many of our students waited until after they graduated to get married rather than as underclassmen 
) This morning I left Lubbock in time to be at Highland, my church community which I have dearly missed. I sat next to William, one of the kids I spent a lot of time with in our Colonial Apartment ministry, I love kids and their honesty and straightforwardness. I love getting to take communion with him, and listen to him sing, and read the scriputres off the screens. Tonight I am going to have dinner with my friend Sarah (congrats on the new full time minstry job). Tomorrow I will stop by and suprise people I love and that love me who I haven’t seen in awhile. I will also spend some more time working on our small group bible studies (minor prophets and psalms) in the library (Manhattan is lacking in theological resources). But almost as much as anything else, I am enjoying sitting in places where I once used to sit and think, reflect, pray. I’ll admit, the Hardwood cafe wasn’t one of them (the library is closed today), but the area up top around the bible building is one and in the campus center is another - and I’ve been in both. Its a feeling of home, these places these last few days. Places where you can let your guard down. Places among those you love and know you more than anyone elsePlaces where people ask hard questions and expect real honest answers - even when they are not pretty. No west and central Texas are not beautiful in the aesthetic sense but for today and this season for me, it is renewing.