Sunday Funday September 2022

Praise and Prayers

It’s been a really beautiful September. Mostly still warm enough to wear sandles, but getting to enjoy all the loveliness of fall. I have actually never really liked fall—it is all about the leaves and plants dying and it getting cold. But after being in the USA for almost two years, I am enjoying fall more than before. There is just so much work in changing seasons when you aren’t used to changing seasons!

Caid and I had a really good time meeting with our marriage counselor. Looking back and reflecting on how life is moving. We’ve had more time for the little things: playing hide and seek in our house, working with the girls on bike riding (no training wheels for Sofia!), reading together all snuggled up on the couch. We also opened our home for home fellowship on Wednesdays, which is something we’ve wanted to do more of, and God gave us the opportunity.

It kind of feels like we’ve only really lived here for a couple months, because when we first moved, we were focused on moving. Then we were focused on getting Caid through his Transition to Teaching program. Now we are actually here. And it feels really good. We really loved getting to be more involved in our neighborhood with the street fest, and of course the Irish fest and all the other wonderful things at Garfield Park.

Interweb Reads

Me stuff: Are you Rich?, On a Plane to Brazil, Forgiveness, Time to say “That was wrong. We can’t do that again.”, and Lumped in Together

Other: When your Books find an Audience you didn’t Expect (Literary Hub), One thing that will make your soul explode (Emily P. Freedman), It’s Time to Remember Tolkien (The French Press), Princeton University is the World’s First Perpetual Motion Machine (Malcolm Gladwell)

Missionary stuff: 7 Steps to creating a thriving Ministry Culture (A Life Overseas), Abuse in Missions: Sending Orgs are Failing Missionaries (Sarita Hartz), New data shows how Missionary Kids Suffer. Here’s what Parents can do about it (A Life Overseas), Some seeds die (A Life Overseas)

Christian stuff: Walter Brueggemann: How to read the Bible on Homosexuality (Outreach), Six Heretics who should be Banned from Evangelicalism (Relevant), The World is Changing. That Doesn’t mean it is getting Worse (Relevant), Christians, Stop using “Woke” as an Insult (Relevant), When Culture Wars go Way too far (The French Press)