Projects of Late

I have writer's block so bare with me as I work through the thoughts I have just to get at the ones I need to get down on paper. I've been busy and I am a little overwhelmed. I'm sure that I'll be feeling this way a lot in the near future, probably until about a year into my Macedonia trip. That's life I guess. I have been trying so hard to finish writing my second newsletter. I have one or two paragraphs left before it can be sent out or at least proofread. In the meantime, I'm working full time and that's exhausting me, not so much the work as opposed to what goes on in that environment. Other people exhaust you without much effort. Sometimes it's just their personalities, other times it's the baggage they carry with them. Sometimes it's a combination of both colliding together to create an amazingly beautiful piece of chaos (think on that for a while!). Besides work, I've had my missionary visit me, I've spent my first Easter Sunday at my Redway church, and just this weekend I visited a church in Shelter Cove that decided on the spot to give me a one time gift of 500 dollars and pray about pledging a monthly commitment. I praise God for small bodies of believers like that one because that's what is going to keep me alive in Macedonia for my two year term. I know they'll be praying for me and that's exciting! I mean, for a little while I felt like I was in a small house church in some other country or something. I think I can see the faithfulness of those small groups of believers that gather against much opposition and minister in ways that seem impossible because of their size. I had a glimpse of another part of the body of Christ and it was beautiful. I also had a glimpse of a beautiful day at the cove, of which I took a few pictures in attempts to be artistic. I hope they're good. Last night though, I got a call from David saying that he had to go visit some people today and that "Tag!" I am "it" for tonight's Bible study. Gosh, I know I need to be prepared in and out of season, but that's short notice if I've ever seen it! I couldn't even fall asleep and get up early like I wanted to in order that I could work on it. Here I am with a direction to talk about Characteristics of God from Psalm 18. Mostly from the first part, but I may have someone read the depiction of how God rescued the psalmist from the raging torrents to illustrate how this person saw God in their circumstances. I hope it'll work and be a good discussion topic. I am stressed about it though. I almost feel sick and I'm sure it's because of that or something that I ate at the gourmet kitchen of True Value. Well, pray for me as I continue to strive towards raising my funds for Macedonia. Soon I'll be going to the Nor - Cal Nevada District of the AG's District Council in Sacramento. I'll get to participate in the Missionary parade for the Tuesday night cultural dinner. I'll be trying to arrange dates that I may be able to go visit other churches that I have connections at too. Pray that I might get a few dates and a few pledges even through this. I'm exhausted but now I think my writer's block is gone. Even if it's not, I need to work it out elsewhere any ways.