Tuesday, March 15, 2005
Catching up
Well we have had a busy weekend. First the football update. This Sunday night we played the top team in our division and we beat them. I showed up again, having a three touchdown game. The first two were pretty nice, both required out running their fast deep coverage after I caught the ball. The second one no one gave me a chance to catch the ball, but it was third down and we would be turning the ball over in our own end and that couldn't happen, so I tried and got a hand on the ball, and brought it in. The ref and other team all made comments about that catch. The final touchdown (which came on our last offensive series) I caught after running over the coverage, from what I hear from people around me it was much more questionable than it felt like to me, my saving grace on the play was that I did not take my eyes off the ball - which is why I caught it. Our very last offensive play was the convert which someone else caught, so they won the game.
Other news, I spent most of Sunday, and part of Monday at my wife's office working on the library that I have been trying to set up. I thought I was going to finish yesterday, but I think that there is a page I still have to print off so that I have stickers for all the items, and I have all the videos and CD-ROMs to finish labeling. It seems like this job just won't end. There always seems to be one more thing to do.
My wife is spending this week, March break, at home with the kids. As I type this I smell the fresh Cinnamon Buns - my evil curse, I can't eat fresh bread items. She made cookies with boys while I was working yesterday, they were delicious.
The kids like this cause mommy is fun. Mommy does a good job of playing with them, of helping them clean up (and they enjoy it when they do this with her). They like baking with mommy too (especially the younger son).
I still have a couple of things to be preparing for, Sunday School, and a sermon/communion talk for two weeks from now. I have been teaching the pre-teen and early teen class (I have trouble catagorizing them because of the ages). Funny kids, I inturpted last weeks lesson with a talk about gambling and what is wrong with it and why playing a game like poker is not necessarily wrong. The kids are just approaching the time when they will start challenging some of their beliefs - so I am trying to help them. While I have some material and ideas I would like to work through, I feel like there are a number of topics that would be fun to get sidetracked on. I like challenging them to think and to surprise them with ideas.
The Sunday sermon is on the resurrection, and as I mentioned I am looking at the conversation between Jesus and Mary Magdalen. We will see what comes of this. I like the ideas from this last week about Mary (sister of Lazarus) and her closeness with Jesus. Yet I wonder with all the women around him, were the two Marys competing for his attention, did they want to be the one picked to be the wife, or where they thinking differently, where they thinking more about the cause, about the kingdom, knowing that Jesus was doing something big, and they just wanted to be there to see it when it happened.
Other news, I spent most of Sunday, and part of Monday at my wife's office working on the library that I have been trying to set up. I thought I was going to finish yesterday, but I think that there is a page I still have to print off so that I have stickers for all the items, and I have all the videos and CD-ROMs to finish labeling. It seems like this job just won't end. There always seems to be one more thing to do.
My wife is spending this week, March break, at home with the kids. As I type this I smell the fresh Cinnamon Buns - my evil curse, I can't eat fresh bread items. She made cookies with boys while I was working yesterday, they were delicious.
The kids like this cause mommy is fun. Mommy does a good job of playing with them, of helping them clean up (and they enjoy it when they do this with her). They like baking with mommy too (especially the younger son).
I still have a couple of things to be preparing for, Sunday School, and a sermon/communion talk for two weeks from now. I have been teaching the pre-teen and early teen class (I have trouble catagorizing them because of the ages). Funny kids, I inturpted last weeks lesson with a talk about gambling and what is wrong with it and why playing a game like poker is not necessarily wrong. The kids are just approaching the time when they will start challenging some of their beliefs - so I am trying to help them. While I have some material and ideas I would like to work through, I feel like there are a number of topics that would be fun to get sidetracked on. I like challenging them to think and to surprise them with ideas.
The Sunday sermon is on the resurrection, and as I mentioned I am looking at the conversation between Jesus and Mary Magdalen. We will see what comes of this. I like the ideas from this last week about Mary (sister of Lazarus) and her closeness with Jesus. Yet I wonder with all the women around him, were the two Marys competing for his attention, did they want to be the one picked to be the wife, or where they thinking differently, where they thinking more about the cause, about the kingdom, knowing that Jesus was doing something big, and they just wanted to be there to see it when it happened.
// posted by Eric @ 9:41 AM 
