Bored Man Behind Hillary

I saw this on Jay Leno last night, and laughed so loud I woke Joy up who was sleeping in the other room. It's definitely worth repeated watching.

A Sign?

Wow. I just went online to check my checking account, and in our account it showed we had exactly $666. I immediately made a transfer from the savings account in the amount of $111.

Internship Ending

Oh, what joyous days these are! I have really enjoyed my internship site over these past nine months, but there are also times when one wants to stop working for free. So, I enter this week as my last week with any individual/family sessions, and I'm also wrapping up 2 of my 4 groups this week. While there is a little bit of sadness in leaving the people I enjoy working with in an environment I find supportive, I'm looking to move on. So bring on those termination sessions, and let's get ready to move!

Battle at Kruger

I sumbled across this article in The New York Times:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/10/arts/television/10kruger.html?_r=1&hp=&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&adxnnlx=1210393351-LAPkkXRD2P7UOJ/mL6nUdw

Before actualy viewing the video on YouTube:



Simply amazing.

In other news, I graduate from Trinity International University tomorrow with a Master of Arts in Counseling Psychology. Believe it.

Community

Joy and I went to Taylor University this past weekend. We were there with some friends to celebrate and remember the lives of some in the TU community and to reconnect with old friends. It was a blessed weekend. One of the things that stood out to me was the importance of community, particularly Christian community. I've been out of college for four years now, and it's a sad thing to say that I have not felt any type of community that even comes close to what I experienced during college. It's sad because I need community. Since I'm talking about community, perhaps I should say we need community. But I'm first in line, and it's harder to find than I ever thought it would be.

Do I have meaningful relationships now? Yep. Are there new relationships I've developed since college that I really value? Yep. But I still have this longing...intense longing...for the community I once knew. I feel silly talking about college like this, as if I am trying to relive those glory days of my youth, and it's not that I want to go back to college as it's wanting to form community now. The truth is that life is much more lonely outside of college, and not in a clinical depression sort of lonely, but a I-am-meant-to-live-with-others type of community.

There is light in this little post. Joy and I have joined what our church calls a House Gathering. It's not a Bible study and it's not a small group. It's a House Gathering--a gathering of Christ-followers to live life together and share stories of how we are living as Christians in the world. Our House Gathering has 8 members, and it's been a huge blessing for Joy and I throughout these past four months. Every Thursday night we gather over a meal and laugh, cry, and then laugh a lot more. It's good to be involved in some spiritual and intellectual discussion, but I find myself sometimes disconnected, a rusty tool brought out of the shed and into the sun. But as rusty as I feel, and as undisciplined as I am, I am seeking community. Because I find that it is when I seek and develop community that I usually encounter and find Christ.