Birds

Today I spent twenty minutes staring at a bird. It all began when I went to fulfill my duties in the prayer room. We had 24/4 days of prayer this week. Which means we all had certain scheduled moments when we needed to be in a specified room praying. Anyway, during one of my prayer times there happened to be a bald eagle sitting in a tree outside the window. I watched him for a solid twenty minutes before he flew away. I used to make fun of my parents for watching birds. I am not an old man.

I was asked to lead worship at church this past Sunday. It went well except for the fact that they didn't know very many of the songs. I figured there would be a couple new ones, but I largely underestimated this churches awareness of common worship songs. Granted, they sing songs on a weekly basis that I have never heard of as well. It's like a whole different country or something... Anyway, after the service the other members on the worship team asked to play over a few of the new songs again because they really appreciated them. They were excited to have new songs added to the mix.

Also, this past Thursday Dan and I were able to have dinner at our pastor's house. It was nice to have relaxing conversation with him and his wife away from the church setting (not to mention the amazing food and hot tub). We hope to make this more of a regular occurrence. It was good to gain a new perspective on him in this way.

I'm not sure if I've mentioned anything about our training for India or not. Well, we started training for India. Almost every other day we are doing some kind of workout. Some days we do strength training and other days we do cardio work such as running, stairs or hiking. It has been good not only physically, but it's such a great instrument in preparing and uniting the group as a team. I'm looking forward to this trip more and more.

In addition to our workouts, we have a ridiculous amount of things to do. Our schedules are beginning to overflow. And somewhere in the middle of it all is homework. Lots of homework. Which is what I need to be doing right now.

Goodbye.