Today is the 26th day of October. I have been away from my home-town for 1 year and 7 months. I am amazed and perplexed at my adventure across the great continant we call the United States of America.

I remember flight here. I met a couple on the plane who were on their way to Hawaii. They were the types of people who would wear over sized hawaian shirts and dye their hair in un-natural shades of blondish color. Their goal was to have fun. After chatting with them a bit, I came to realize that their entire life goal was to have fun. They couldn't understand why I would just hop on a plane to go away from everyone I knew to serve in a Ministry.

I couldn't understand how someone couldn't feel so very empty inside with that being their life goal in mind.

Anyway, all that being said, I am here in another place that is so far from home, yet so at home. I am so far from the mark of my original purpose here. But my

Mush

Today is Tuesday, October 16th, 2007. Rain, slush mushy bog. That is my world right now, except for the moments that I am spending in the library.