i wanna yearn

where to begin?  sometimes i get overwhelmed by everything and so i slack off in blogging only because i can't put it all to words.  but i want to try.

1. i came home last week one day to mail.  a card, at that.  i love snail mail... maybe partly because all i ever get is bills and stuff from world vision reminding me that the world is falling apart.  and of course because it communicates that someone took time to think about you and do that!  but yeah, a very beautiful card and glorious mix cd greeted me when i arrived home one day.  yay for soulmates.

2. work continues to be good.  i know no one really cares, but i do!  i come home each day so thankful.  i took a girl to an appointment today and it was so fun that we were trying to figure out what other things she "needs" to go to, so we can hang out more. :)

3. prince caspian.  i saw the new narnia film on saturday with my seesters and it was really fun.  i think they did a better job than the first one (but i haven't read them in a while....)  the depiction of lucy's needing aslan and looking for him although he seemed to have abandoned narnia was wonderful.  clive staples is a genius.

4. i went to a symposium on violence in the community last wednesday night.  it was really cool, hearing about people in important positions care about people that no one seems to be concerned for- the dope boys, the gang members, the kids of the inner city.  it got me so pumped up.  my only lament with things like that is i want to strategize following the discussion, like everyone say what they're gonna do besides talk about the problem, and let's go do it!  oh i am such a dreamer.  but it was refreshing nonetheless.

5. church was great yesterday, very practical.  the head pastor is reading a book about what non-Christians think of Christians.  it's so sad, but i understand it.  the church seems to be a sleeping giant.  i have been energized lately because a guy from the church works at the homeless shelter around the corner from me; it's like having a partner in what we're trying to do.  but yeah, the service talked about this video

and about matthew 28 where the disciples are doubting and Jesus commissions them anyway.  he just talked about how we can be different, more like Jesus and less like what the world thinks of as Christians.  he was much more eloquent.  i've been working all day. :)

so many other things, but i feel boring.

i'll write when i feel more poetic.

i wish it would stop raining.