exhausted

Well its' Tuesday and I'm exhausted. I feel like it should be Friday but low and behold I still have 3 more days until the weekend.
This week I have meetings and more meetings, then more meetings.
Let see
Monday 11:45am-1pm
Tuesday 10am-12pm
Wednesday 6:45am-9am (thats right in the morning)
Wednesday 11:30-1pm
Thursday 5:30-7:30pm
Saturday 7:30am-9:30am (thats right another morning meeting)
Sunday 12:30-2pm

And the kicked is all of these meetings surround food, why is that?

Oh and my other list of things to complete this week:
Budgets for the next FY
paint 1500 puzzle pieces
print 1500 stickers
order 1200 brochures
put together packets for compassion reps
buy ping pong balls
sort and order photo's
look into high res photos to enlarge
etc...

needless to say I need a day off..

Due

I'm due for a post but nothing has come to mind for me to blog about. Anything you want to hear about?

the great debate

So I'm looking to get my first tattoo, and I must say i don't know anyone that has this... so for me that's what makes it even more tempting... as well it's so me.
I just can't figure out where I want it... I know my back but where the upper shoulder, or the lower back...
so what is this tattoo you ask? the California state flag...

Made in

Waiting

I'm reading a book called Visioneering, by Andy Stanley. I picked up this book because, recently we sent a survey to all of our supported missionaries at WestGate. Three of them wrote this book down; one lives in Japan, one in the bay area, and one somewhere else (can't recall). But to me it says something when three people that don't know one another say that this was their favorite book that they've read this past year. So of course I ordered it.

As I've read chapter one, he talked about Nehemiah. He had this to say; ' Nehamiah's vision didn't begin as a vision. It begin as a concern, a burden.' For Nehamiah it was a burden for his nation and its people. Nehamiah knew what we all have a hard time remembering 'What could be and should be can't be until God is ready for it to be. So he waited.'

So often times at work and in life I hear a good idea or better yet a great idea. In many instances I want to jump on the idea and start NOW! I've learned through jumping on an idea too early that things take time to develop. Just as we can't rush a 9month pregancy we can't rush a vision, a burden, an idea. It takes time to develop, sharpen, a deeper burden for that vision, and prayer.

Some people might wait for forty years like Moses, or four months like Nehamiah, but all the same there is a waiting period. There is a burden, idea, vision that has been on my heart for over four years (since come home from the mission field) that I've yet to hear God saying it's time. There have been oppurtunities for me to jump on this and start but each time, God's asked me to wait. All along my heart is growing in love and burden for these people. But I have to remember: 'What could be and should be can't be until God is ready for it to be.'

So now I continue to wait.

Update & to do list:

It seems that I've abandoned this for a few days. Don't worry I'm still here.


Update & to do list:
New house.... is awesome!
Move..... went smooth
Internet & Cable..... Not up until July 7th, which is a bummer
Haiti Team..... money is raised and team leaves Sunday
Luggage.... now I get the ultimate task of packing team luggage. Supper excited about this it's like a huge puzzle
TV..... new one is being picked up this week
Soccer nets.... I need to find soccer nets for the Haiti team. I need 4 of these!
Baseball gloves..... I need to find as main of these as possible for the Haiti team
Paint.... I get to paint a wall or two my house... maybe in the next week or two
Transportation.... to SFO on Sunday for 15 people + luggage
Washer & Dryer.... get those hooked up in new house
Dishwasher.... figure out why there is no water going to it
Contact paper.... finish the kitchen
Books.....figure out where books are going to go in the new house

Things I look forward to in the new house:

-bigger closet (like double the size I have now)
-larger bedroom
-large kitchen
-cooking in the large kitchen
-storage space
-fireplace
-fires in the winter and fall
-dishwasher
-backyard
-lemon & lime trees
-having a garden that takes care of all that
-having great housemates
-a parking spot in the drive way
-developing a herb garden
-trying out the bus to work (save gas)
-and the new tv I'm getting

Screaming and Jumping

Well I think summer is here... at least in my office it is. This next week I have my office to myself, I am pretty sure I am not going to know what to do. I was thinking of actually locking the door so people can't walk in asking question, or scare me like Jon did today. He says I flew out of my seat but all I remember is screaming.
So next week if you come by WestGate and happen to hear loud music coming from a room with no lights on and just the glow from the computer screens. Don't walk in, I'm enjoy my space and most likely working on things for the spring of 2009.

...But if you do walk in please announce yourself so I don't scream and jump again.