Life goes on...

A quick update and a few thoughts...

Sam and Christy are gone for a week (until Sunday evening), so I'm the big man on campus now. I moved into Sam's office and have been trying to get things organized for the cafe. I finished my official training from the guy who sold us the coffee cart (Andy) but I spent several hours typing all the recipes and cleaning procedures. Today I actually practiced making some of the drinks myself, and there is quite a bit of tweaking to do, but I'll figure it out soon enough. In the meantime people around here are going to be getting many free samples, for better or for worse. Craig and Christine (and others), I may be calling you to get a couple pointers. And good news-my car finally passed emissions, so I can get my car registered in California! The second time was the charm.

My friend Leo and I are doing some bible reading accountability, and it has been great to get into the word more. God's given me a desire to read a lot, which is great. And hopefully this will make it a discipline that I will do even when I'm not feeling stoked about reading. I've been going through Nehemiah, a little Hebrews, some Psalms, and I finished Acts up today. I've also been reading more of Brother Lawrence's Practice of the Presence of God, and I have been reminded how i just need to be acutally training myself to be in God's presence throughout the day. To be giving him praise and surrendering to him and being obedient to him. It's tough becauseI've been training myself for the past 22 years to rely upon myself and do my own thing, that it is going to take a lot of practice to reverse that and rely upon God. But it's not supposed to be easy...

I don't really talk to people about Jesus very often. I think that that is because he has been a part of my life for awhile, but he hasn't been the best part (at least in my eyes). I think if I am really loving God with everything and realizing he is my essence, then naturally I would want to talk to others about him. So I am working on surrendering and loving God more...

For those of you in Spokane, I'm planning on going back there for David Perry's wedding at the end of August, probably the 23rd through the 27th or so. Look forward to seeing yall.

Til next time,
Doug