Monday, January 17, 2011

contributor: Jim

Writing on blogs takes me about a thousand times longer than it should. I always draw a blank about how to begin. I'll think of something, figure out how to phrase it, type...then erase the whole thing for sounding trite (I'm resisting that urge right now).

So, highlights from my week:
  • Two Friday's ago, the doctor told me I may have walking pneumonia. That or maybe chronic bronchitis. I've been taking antibiotics, but I'm not sure it's working. I got tired just from cleaning up for small group yesterday.
  • I was totally snowed in during the storm. One report from about a week before the actual snowfall predicted it would snow but wouldn't stick. For some reason, that's the report I believed and was banking on. I kept looking at the expected temperatures and thinking that even if the air temp was around freezing, the ground would surely be warmer and melt the snow. I didn't take any precautions. I parked in my normal spot in my driveway, at the bottom, and, consequently, couldn't get out until Wednesday. When I was going to work on my normal route on Thursday, I got stuck twice, once when my car slid off the road (fortunately I was only going about 5mph at the time), and another time when I couldn't get the car up an icy hill.
  • My small group at church met for the first time last night. The Lord exceeded my expectation in every way. The group was amazingly diverse in age, with couples in their 70's, 50's and 20's, a college freshman, two engineers from Duke and a single mother in her 40's.  Despite the differences, we bonded easily and are looking forward to the things the Lord will teach us.
  • Looking back over my post, there were a frightful number of grammatical errors to correct.

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