Lag Time

Hello again.  The last few weeks have been a bit of settling time for me.  After all of the frenzied activity involved in applying endlessly for things (postulancy, seminary, scholarships, etc.), selling the condo, writing a sermon, and planning my fund-raising endeavors, things suddenly all took off on their own!  I got a fantastic scholarship (fellowship, actually), my condo is under contract, my fund-raising dinner has a staff of planners doing a great job, and my sermon was a big hit.  Now for the last few weeks I keep having this nagging feeling in my down time that there's someone I am supposed to call or some deadline looming over me.  It's a crummy way to live!

It hasn't helped that we've all had various illnesses the past few weeks, either - or that the weather has been so classically a Bellingham Spring (someone referred to in recently as June-uary!).  But onward we plod!  Things are looking up and will be swinging into high gear yet again soon.  I will have various family in town all this month.  My big send-off party next Saturday is shaping up to be a bigger celebration than my wedding:  over 130 people have already RSVP'ed.  We'll be building the stage and dance floor this Friday!  At the end of next week, as part of my fellowship (www.thefund.org), I will be headed, sans family, to Boston for a 4-day conference for young (under 35) future leaders of the church.  I'll be in Whistler, BC for my birthday, and then it's time to start packing for the big move!