I can’t believe it’s two months since I’ve been on here. When I do blog it’s been on my MySpace page, although even that has been infrequent. Just haven’t had much to say I guess.

Really busy with school. It seems to occupy my days, night, and weekends. It’s a blast. But a big workload. So far I’ve gotten 5 A’s and one B+. The B+ was in Dan Kimballs class and it was because I lost a book that I was supposed to do a book report on and couldn’t turn the book report in on time. Otherwise I’d have straight A’s. It happens I guess. You just gotta roll w/it. Of course I found the book in one of the toy bins three weeks later. What can you do?

How about them Giants? Wow. That was a good game.

The church in Dixon voted on pastor last weekend. I haven’t heard if he got voted in or not. I spoke there the week before the vote and I could tell it was going to be a somewhat contentious process for them. My decision to back out was the impetus to push them toward a vote. I’m glad I could be of service to them in that regard.

I met w/the church board of my church about a month ago. It was just a meet-n-greet and I was able to share my passion for the emerging church. The pastor said it went well. We’ve tried to do lunch a couple of times since then but haven’t been able to hook up. He asked me to write down a few things and I gave him a 30 page paper on my ideas and philosophy. Maybe that’s what he wants to talk about. I don’t think that he’ll have an issue w/any of it because so much of what I wrote in there, at least philosophically, I’ve heard him say from the pulpit since then. He and I seem to have pretty similar visions.

I also spoke at the Sanx church. Rustin went on a cruise and asked me to fill in for him. I was pretty nervous because I wasn’t sure how people would receive me since I left so suddenly and w/out explanation. Turns out there were only ten people there and it went ok. It’s obvious though that nothing new has been added and it’s pretty much dead in the water. It saddened me.

Same w/a phone call I got this weekend from James, my former pastor. That prophet lady we were all excited about a year or so ago has turned out to be a problem. I figured that out about four months after she came to town but its taken them more than a year to accept that and admit it. In the meantime all this damage has been done and friendships injured.

On a more up note, Rustin and I and our wives are going to go to Sacramento and see the U23D thing at the Imax theatre there. That ought to be fun. Next best thing to a live concert I guess.

My brother moved to Houston. Ironically, he is actually driving Michael Strahan’s (star DE of the NY Giants) mothers car that Michael bought for her recently. A Mercede’s 500 series. Brand new. My parents are good friends of Mike’s parents and his Mom has bad knees and can’t drive the car so she offered it to my brother and his family to drive until they get their own wheels. They just moved there from Maui and couldn’t bring their car. Small world.

I’ve been following the Presidential campaigns fairly closely. I’m glad I re-registered as an Independent. Barna wrote an article about me. Well, not about me in particular, but it might as well have been since it applies to me in so many ways. http://www.barna.org/FlexPage.aspx?Page=BarnaUpdateNarrow&BarnaUpdateID=291 ( I don’t know why, but my link feature doesn’t work right. You’ll have to cut and paste the URL if you’re interested in reading the article.) I’m not sure if I’ll vote or not. I think it’s prob better to just support special interest groups like Darfur.com, Amnesty Intl, One and others and let them use your voice to push for the right issues. I don’t think any one candidate properly presents or cares about the issues that I care about the most.

I read “Knowledge of the Holy” by AW Tozer last week. The book impacted me. Very much so. We’re studying about God and his attributes in school and its struck a chord with me similar to how Willard’s book “Divine Conspiracy” did several years ago. Tozer’s book is only 120 pages so it’s a quick read. But he says alot in those 120 pages. He reminds me of Brennan Manning in some regards. Lofty and eloquent and deeply spiritual.

Well, that’s about it. Oh, I’ve lost 20 pounds since after Christmas. Nate inspired me. I hope to lose another 80 in the next few months. I’m just cutting back on burgers and fries and eating smaller portions. Not a big deal. I suppose at some point I”ll have get more aggressive w/it but this in the meantime I’ll do it the easy way.