Watch Out Where the Huskies Go....

You know what's a great word? Ephod...that is a great word. Anyway, at this moment, i am listening to a sermon from a sermon series on the book of Ruth, as well as blogging. That's right, i'm a multi-tasker. Although i am finding it hard to listen to the sermon over the clickety clack of my typing.

So What is going on in my life? I had youth last night, spoke about influence. I spoke about the influence of people in our lives and how in all honesty we have the power and the ability to either increase or decrease a person's influence in our lives depending on whether or not the person's influence is good or bad. Then i tied it all into how God should be the ultimate influence in our lives as Christians. As i put it together i felt pretty good about it, and i felt like it could create some good discussion. As i delivered my message i found an audience that was distracted and seemingly not tracking with what i was saying. It was a weird feeling. Maybe they were tracking with what i was saying, and perhaps God really spoke to some of the teens about this area in thier lives, but i didn't get that impression, so i felt kinda lame about it, but i guess not every talk can be a home run. (by the way i stopped listening to the sermon because i couldn't follow it whilst i typed).

Life at work has been slower this week, having mostly administrative tasks to accomplish, and then trying to come up with other stuff to do. Last week i spent some time dreaming about what to do with the basement of our youth centre, perhaps next week i will do some more of that. I feel like i have some good ideas for it, but i don't really feel confidant in it right now, like it's some amazing idea or anything. I've been praying that God gives me vision in this area, cause when it's God's idea, it usually works out better. Also it is very hot in my office every day. I don't know what the deal is, but as i told Troy yesterday I feel like i've got the "Meat Sweats". (fyi: the meat sweats are the sweat you get when you eat too many hot wings at the bar and you start to sweat). Awesome.

Tomorrow, myself, my wife, and some teens are headed for Calgary for LYC. I'm actually really excited for it. Last night as i pondered this trip and also threw some prayer in there, i got excited about the ministry of LYC, and how every year God uses this conferance to impact lives and create change, and establish new relationships between himself and many of the attending teens. It is definitly my prayer that this happens again this year. I was also thinking about the glitches (technically speaking) and the last minute details that can really stress the planning team out, and i prayed against that, and just that God's glory and presence would prevail despite all the crap. (how can you tell i've been on the LYC planning team and the prayer team before?) I'm hoping this year's speaker will be good. Most of the effectiveness of LYC hinges on both the speaker and the worship team. It's been that way since i was a teen attending youth conferance and more then likely before that also. This will be my 9th year in a row at LYC (or just YC as it was previously known).

Things with the baby are going fine as far as i can tell. We go for our next doctor's appointment at the end of March, and by that point we will be 12-13 weeks, which will mean we have completed the first trimester. You know what else is a great word? Trimester. I've always liked that word for some reason, ever since i heard it back in Sex Ed. in high school, i thought it was a cool word. Trimester. Anyway, Cara is dealing with most of the pregnancy, since after all, she is the one who is pregnant. I don't think i have been sensitive enough to her pains and her emotions, i guess i'm just not sure how to react to everything. She's reading a new pregnancy book (the book is not actually new, but it's new to us) and i don't actually read it, but i like to be around her when she reads it because she often finds some valueable and pertinent information to our situation, plus, although i haven't been reading the book, i like to learn this stuff with her. I am really excited for this baby to come. It will be here just before Jeremiah's wedding, which will be an adventure in and of itself.

So this has been a fairly long, but not too much to say blog, but i had some time, and wanted to throw out what is going on with me, and that's about it. Also, i have the song "Try Honesty" in my head. I'm not to excited about that, and don't know where it came from, but i am going to try and wash it out, possibly with some Derek Webb or David Crowder band (because i only have Christian Music on my work computer...)