Pure 70's

Well, Wednesday has proven to be a much closer to "normal" day for me. I did sleep in after taking the kids to school, but then worked about six hours before heading home for supper, then the turnaround for praise team rehearsals. So, I actually put in an eight-hour workday today!

Enough of that boring stuff, though. I'm sitting here jammin' to the CD "Pure 70's" for no reason other than that I can. Okay, the CD has "Sweet Home Alabama" on it, and since I am gearing up for next week's trip to Anniston to see Dad, Donna and Tim (who's in from California), then I thought I would just jam out a while. Peggy is leading a D-group of middle school girls in a Bible Study in the living room, so I'll jam to 70's music that does not fit with a Bible study in any way whatsoever for a few minutes!

Sinus city is still keeping me semi-dizzy (although many who know me, think that is my natural state). I did get Star Wars tickets exchanged since Elliott and I can't go as early as we were planning on originally. No, I'm not going to the 12:01 am showing. It won't be until 2:00 pm tomorrow before I see the Revenge. Having read plenty on the movie, I am anticipating a great time of special effects, and transformation to Darth Vader that should be most satifying. I know this movie is darker than the others. It has to be. I also know that I will be carefully looking for application to go along with the two Sunday night youth group lessons I am tying in with this flick. We have been studying a series called JEDi Training (Jesus Educated DIsciples), and have followed Lucas' format of Episode IV, V, VI, then I, II and finally III. The lessons have gone quite well, and I hope to glean enough from the movie tomorrow to fill in the flesh on the lesson plans for Sunday night and for May 29th (since I will be in Sweet Home Alabama all next week, and won't be writing that lesson up there).

It's be a ton of fun having Elliott here this week, and it makes me sad to think that he will only be here a couple more days before heading off for the summer. Oh, he will be back next weekend for part of the time, then it's off trapsing about the country until the first week of
August. He will be traveling for Florida Christian College with a team that does mostly Christ In Youth Summer Conferences, and a few church camps. It is a great opportunity for him.

Ian and Emily are counting down the days before school ends, and Peggy is counting down the minutes! They are so funny. Me? I am jammed with church camp stuff, summer ministry stuff (oooohhhh, "Long Train Runnin'" just came on!), CIY Summer Conference final touches, and trying to think about how to get things ready for the Fall. I have three different sets of materials, one of which will be used for our D-groups, and the other two put in a rotation for youth groups, but I gotta get one or more of my sponsors to take the lead on putting this material together. We'll see. Oh yeah, and I still have to write the summer Degoba Training Ground Lesson Series...whew.

Well, now it's off to one of my guilty TV pleasures: "Lost." I have a great lesson series based loosely on that TV show, I may hafta work that in before long, too. So many ideas, not enough time to get it all together. Pure 70's my brothas and sistas!