Lost in Transition

My two handsome brothers both graduated (High School and Middle School) this past weekend. I can't believe how old they are getting (which just means I am getting old too! yikes!). Notice I left out how mature they are becoming, maybe one day I can add that part in :) What is fun is that the two group pics are with two 8th grade teachers that all 5 of us have had. Tim got the award of the "Last of the great (our last name) Dynasty!" Poor Tim, as he enters High school, that's only going to get worse "Oh, you must be another one."

My family is in for another summer of transitions. Stephen enters the NAVY, I move out, and we all move on with life. It will be good but to be honest transitions are never easy. Life is not easy, an overused cliche, but completely relevant. I have been thinking about that lately. This culture is in hot pursuit of the American dream. I love this song by one of my favorite bands, Switchfoot:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oi8CznEC3qw

The chorus is what gets me and is kind of what I want my summer 'theme' to be. I was all ready to plan out my summer how I wanted it to look like, to redeem it in a sense from last years summer. I was really challenged to not look at this as my time, my day, my week, my summer. How can I make others successful and spend my time learning and hanging out with God? I want 'my' summer to be opposite, to be God's summer that I get the chance to live out beside him. To transition well and move along God's path for those who want to live.

I want out of this machine
It doesn't feel like freedom

This ain't my American dream
I want to live and die for bigger things
I'm tired of fighting for just me
This ain't my American dream

1,2,3,4

On my quest for music to put on my new playlist (check it out to on the right!) I found this:




And I am quite pleased with myself for figuring out how to add 'gadgets' and embed that video all by myself!

According to Drew...

I teach 2nd and 3rd graders at my church. I am seriously considering video taping them each week because they are the greatest and the things they say! This past Sunday was no exception. Usually its Jeremiah reading us a story from his gross out bible for boys (king Herod getting eaten by worms, and other savory stories). But this week was Drew's turn. He usually has something brilliant to say but this one is tops.

Miss Angela did you know that there are three answers to life's questions?

No Drew I did not know this, what are they?

Well, the first one is kinda obvious, its God/Jesus. You know they made everything and this covers most answers especially in church. The second answer is letters or mathematics, you can make anything with letters and numbers to come up with the answer needed, this is handy in school. (let me remind you drew is 9 years old!) And the last one, my personal favorite, is cows.

(trying to keep my composure becuase he was dead serious) Cows? Really, how are they an answer?

(shocked) Do you know how important cows are to our economy and environment? They provide us with beef and milk. And if we didn't have beef then the lunch ladies couldn't serve us hamburgers and milk and then they would be mean. And if lunch stinks then the whole day stinks and if the whole day stinks then school is bad and if school is bad than you will just drop out and.............(he goes on for a while) Cows are a great answer.

I really had no response to this, trying to bring class together was impossible at this point. So we played hangman until their parents came. This is typically how my class goes :) I love every minute of it.