Wednesday, December 12, 2007

New England = Home

It's nice to be back in New England. For one thing, there's snow on the ground (and there was snow as we were coming up; it wasn't all from the recent storm!). We drove up on Sunday on a (somewhat) impulse decision. We had been planning a Sunday drive northward, but when we looked at the weather, it was supposed to snow/sleet/wintry mix about the time we'd be driving through Hartford and Worcester. No good. However, when we checked again on Sunday, the storm had been pushed to later (around six), and so we decided to make a go of it. We drove up, and encountered no bad weather at all!

Just because I'm home doesn't mean there is nothing to do! We still have to finish our class project for church planting, which will be a website (currently in the works. Check out our intro page at http://bechurchne.org). I have several preparations for India in the works: getting tevas, packing, malaria medicine, etc. There are Christmas gifts to make (I've decided I'm going to try and hand-make all my gifts; we'll see how that turns out...at the very least, I want my gifts to come from sources that don't oppress or exploit people and/or the environment). And, there's the all-important task of resting and relaxing.

Right now, I'm in a process of discerning what I want to do with this blog. I haven't kept it up nearly as much now that I've started journaling more (something that has proved rather fruitful after nearly two weeks). Perhaps I'll move it elsewhere...perhaps I'll discipline myself to cull thoughts and insights from my journal (that are shareable) once or twice each week. I'm feeling the need to go deeper with this than I am at right now. We'll see.

On a purely superficial sports note, I am sooooooo ready for next week's Patriot's v. Jets game. I hope the Pats run up the score...

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Thought you might be interested:

http://www.buyhandmade.org/

Just in case you run into a time crunch making all those gifts. This might be a good fall back.

Anonymous said...

Nice homepage.

Keith H. McIlwain said...

May God strike down thy Patriots with tremendous power and humiliation.

And send his beloved Steelers to the Super Bowl.

Merry Christmas!

Meredith said...

India! I hope you have a great experience. I think about my time there pretty often.

I've been thinking about you and Ben and your thoughts for a new kind of church community. I'd love to hear where you are with that!

And for hand-made gifts, check out www.etsy.com. I've never bought anything there, but a pastor friend told me about it yesterday.