Monday morning we leave Ponoka for vacation! It can't come soon enough. I'm really pooped, for a number of reasons. I've been busier than I like with Rimbey pastoral concerns. Four Sunday services and sermons, and two funerals in a month. For an old guy like me, that seems like a lot of work.
Pre-packing - something I always do, given my poor memory - has demanded time and energy over the last week. Fussing about the financial statement for the Provincial government has literally had me panicking. It may be finished tomorrow, or when I come home. Either way, it still eats up a lot of nervous energy, given my incompetence with simple math.
I finally got my "Scottish Thistle" tattoo yesterday, along with a line of text that says, "COURAGE…to accept the things I cannot change." Not exactly the serenity prayer, but an appropriate prayer for an 80 year old man with some hard times ahead between now and death. So, I remind myself to "Man up, and get ready."
I'm a bit excited about my David and Goliath presentation for tomorrow. I hope it's as fun as it has been preparing. I even have smooth stones to show if there any children there!
I plan to write while I am traveling, but have no idea of a schedule for that yet. I'll be doing it on the iPad, so that will be a challenge for me.
I started James Carroll's book "Jesus, actually…", a theological critique of the outdated Christology of the orthodox denominations, conservative and otherwise. Carroll is a theologian and novelist who writes like a novelist: easy to read and cogent all the way. Enjoying it already. I have silly novel to read also, about a little old lady who pulls heists! I just have to survive packing the car and closing up the house before we go. It's very annoying, these pointless anxiety times, when nothing is really out of the ordinary. Hopefully, my vacation posts will have more substance and less fretting in them. Hopefully.
Pre-packing - something I always do, given my poor memory - has demanded time and energy over the last week. Fussing about the financial statement for the Provincial government has literally had me panicking. It may be finished tomorrow, or when I come home. Either way, it still eats up a lot of nervous energy, given my incompetence with simple math.
I finally got my "Scottish Thistle" tattoo yesterday, along with a line of text that says, "COURAGE…to accept the things I cannot change." Not exactly the serenity prayer, but an appropriate prayer for an 80 year old man with some hard times ahead between now and death. So, I remind myself to "Man up, and get ready."
I'm a bit excited about my David and Goliath presentation for tomorrow. I hope it's as fun as it has been preparing. I even have smooth stones to show if there any children there!
I plan to write while I am traveling, but have no idea of a schedule for that yet. I'll be doing it on the iPad, so that will be a challenge for me.
I started James Carroll's book "Jesus, actually…", a theological critique of the outdated Christology of the orthodox denominations, conservative and otherwise. Carroll is a theologian and novelist who writes like a novelist: easy to read and cogent all the way. Enjoying it already. I have silly novel to read also, about a little old lady who pulls heists! I just have to survive packing the car and closing up the house before we go. It's very annoying, these pointless anxiety times, when nothing is really out of the ordinary. Hopefully, my vacation posts will have more substance and less fretting in them. Hopefully.
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