4/26/2005 07:39:00 PM|||Joel VandenBrink|||

Well, my spring semester is over. It was a semester full of progress toward a fuller life, and a semester marked by tragedy. Our church is taking steps toward becoming, and my career is taking steps as well (more to come on that later -- i'm currently in dialogue with something that could be a major step). There is something that is a theme in my life, which I think tells me something about the God I serve -- NOTHING makes sense (or most things don't make sense). It seems apparent that whenever I decide what I'm going to -- it changes. It is the random conversations that I have with the random people that will eventually change my life, and progress me on the path that God is revealing to me, piece by piece. If this all feels nebulous, it is because it is.

Keep me in mind in the next week as I wrestle with part of my calling.

On a different note, SUMMER is here and I am so juiced for it. Some of the things I hope to do this summer are (in no particulat order)

1. Hike through the Olympic National Forest
2. Climb Mount Adams (12, 200 ft)
3. Stay on a beach house on the Oregon coast
4. Start/Finish my first fictional theology book (fictional, not being an adjective, rather a genre of book -- in other words, the book I hope is a fictional story engrossed in theology)
5. Develop missionalationship.com some more -- at least get it to be usuable


Well, that's all I can think of. I'm also taking somewhere between 6 and 10 credits this summer. It's going to be a full summer.

peace
joel

|||111457021564592510|||the semester is over4/29/2005 12:48:10 AM|||Rob|||Joel, just wanted you to know that Melanie and I read your blog! It's fun to see you create man. Rob