Messy Spirituality
I just read the book Messy Spirituality. It has been around for a little while and I heard it was really good from hank so I picked it up at the library the other day. The author actually helped run Youth Specialties I think and just died this past year.
Anyway, I just wanted to recommend it to anyone who hasn't read it yet. He is a good storyteller and I have to admit that I teared up in a few of the different stories of people in the book. It talks about how God loves people even when they are imperfect, which is all of us.

One of the stories he told was when he was speaking at a conference he was talking to some church leaders and in it he said that one of the most spiritual women he knew smoked and used bad language. One of the pastors called him up and was furious for him saying that and wondering how he could say or suggest that be true-that she smoked and was spiritual. He just calmly stood by what he said. Yes she did but yes she was one of the most spiritual people he knew. I thought that was a great example of how sometimes people put "spiritual people" in a box and they have to act a certain way when in reality that is just not always the case.
If anyone has read it let me know what you think.

So I took Shels to the airport this morning. I am glad I am really busy today because now not knowing when the next time we will get to see each other makes me miss my friend. On her little mission night that we had at West Campus before she moved I had to do a mini speech and in it I said "I will probably get a lot more done at work with her gone but it won't be near as fun" That statement really hit me yesterday and today when we were just hanging out, going to lunch and reminiscing about how we used to do nothing on Mondays but reinact the funny things that happened on the weekends...I was right my job is definately less fun without my girl here.

So I got a new used car today!
Hank looked around with me this weekend and we found the one I got.
It is a 95 Honda Civic. It has 102K on it but Honda's are supposed to run forever so this one better! There better not be anything hidden wrong with it. It is a two door basic but it is really clean and the outside is in really good condition. It has brand new tires. Here is the picture the guy had online but you can't tell really well.


The one thing that is annoying is that the radio can't work because Honda has anti theft radios and the code got restarted and no one knew the code. So for Honda to figure it out they would have to take the stereo out and look at the number and they would charge 87 dollars! I don't even want that one anyway. What I want is for someone to take my cd out of my old car and put it in my new one anyway. If anyone out there has knowledge of how to do this let me know...

I just want to say that I was so excited last night on the Bachelor when he finally got rid of Trish. She said she had been dealing with that stuff with girls her whole life-hmm-maybe that should have given her a clue.Sarah and I were having a little pina colada watching it and i totally thought he was going to keep her with some of the lines she was giving him but we literally jumped up and cheered when he sent her packing. I can't wait to see her turn psycho stalker next week! This is the best bachelor show yet.

So last night I took out the bike for the first time....
I was all confident that I would be able to ride all the way to my small group but then decided not to because it would be dark riding back. So I got on to take a little ride around the neighborhood. I realized that...hey..I haven't rode a bike in 4 years. For some strange reason I thought I could just pick up where I left off and ride for miles. This however was not the case and I was forced to downshift to get up the upcline....I know I will work my way up but this was an unfortuante discovery.
This was my dream in my head(only without the lame tight bike clothes):

But this is more what I felt like:

So today I have lots of work to do this week but I have no desire to do it. I bought a bike with my state tax return this morning on my way to work and really want to try it out. I got it at walmart for only 53 dollars. It is some off brand and is teal and pink so you can imagine what a sweet ride it will be but it works and that is what I am excited about. That left me with enough left over to buy Love Actually too!
So needless to say I want to go do that instead of making freakin name tags for a course tonight.

I went to a memorial service last night. It was kind of weird for me because I haven't really know a lot of people who have died. Last year this girl I used to kind of work with died and I went to that visitation but that was the first one since my grandpa when I was ten. Pat was an awesome Christian woman and it was just so inspiring hearing all the stories from people and at the same time sad that she isn't going to be here anymore. She used to volunteer here at church every week until she got sick and it was always fun to see her here. I just kept thinking she was going to come back. One time she gave me this crazy pink ski suit to take to Blast with me. She wanted me to have it because they didn't use it anymore but it was so big and puffy and pink that I couldn't wear it. Shelly just laughed when I tried it on. So I gave it away but now I wish I had at least kept those big mittens....