Life's crazy. So I left the church I loved. Joe lost his job and I got a job as youth and family minister in St. Joseph IL. So as soon as we secure housing I'm moving out of my dream home. I'm making Emma have her senior year of high school in a new school, Michele will have her 8th grade year in a new school. Crazy! Life is an adventure and I'm excited to start this part of the journey!

Have I mentioned lately that I love my church. They're willing to try anything. They were up for prayer stations, and now they're going to try servant evangelism for worship. We're going to do yard work for neighbors one Sunday morning for worship. I need help organizing everything and I had three volunteers this morning! I'm so blessed to have people willing to step up to help out!

Lately I've heard quite a few Christians lose hope and see everything and every situation as if it's the most horrible thing that's ever happened and they have no hope. I don't get that at all. Our hope is in God! And really what happens in this world isn't all that important anyway. Eternity is what's important. I lost most every material possession I had, and yet I didn't lose hope. I didn't despair. I had what was important, family and faith. My husband lost his job and 90% of our income. I'm not despairing. I still have hope. I know that God is in this situation as he's in every situation. I trust that. Even if we lose everything (which is possible) God is still here taking care of us. I can't see losing hope. I can't see day to day struggles taking on epic proportions. I just don't get it.

Finishing up the first week of the H2O project. Hasn't been too bad to only drink water! I still can't get the stats out of my mind. $10 billion will solve the world's water crisis and American's spend $50 billion of soft drinks each year! We have it within our power to solve this problem, and yet... people still die each minute due to lack of clean water. That's unacceptable.

I had my last session with my spiritual director on Thurs. I'm gonna miss her! She brought me through a lot. I've grown so much because of that experience. I'm so thankful that I had that opportunity. It was wonderful. We spent time talking about how much I've grown and learned over the last year and a half. It was really good.

The house is on the market. No showings yet. Hopefully we'll get some. We need to sell so we can move! Things are moving forward and life will change soon, but I'm ready to embrace it.

Wow the Sunday school lesson was good. One girl said she felt like she was a bad person because she lives so well. Not necessarily what I was going for, but it's making her think. It was making them all think. Im sure we're going to have some interesting discussions going forward.

Doing research on poverty I became a bit upset (OK a lot upset) with our government. We could so easily solve some of the problems of the world. 10 billion dollars could give clean water to every person on the planet! Yet we give 30 billion at a time to failing banks. Instead of throwing money at a problem which will continue to be a problem, cause let's face it there's a freaking bank on every corner of every major city. There's too many banks. Maybe they could consolidate and we could take 10 measly billion and provide clean water to the world, and still have 20 billion left over! This country has the mean to the feed and educate the world, and yet we don't. We keep trying to continue with our comfortable lifestyles. Let's open up the credit markets! It probably does need to be done, but at the same time is that the message to give? Keep on buying crap you don't need with money you don't have, and the government will help you out! Our priorities need to change and fast!