I taught both chemistry and physics last year but this will be my first year teaching AP which I guess is a step in the right direction for my eventual goal of teaching on a university level at some point though I probably wont be teaching in the sciences. Linfield is sending me to an AP conference for 5 days in August before school starts in San Diego. It will be a sort of mini vacation, working in the day then having fun in San Diego in the evening- going to the Organ Concert, the Zoo and maybe even a Padres game if they are home that week.
I have been working around the house a lot, some personal stuff, some stuff for our friends next door, to keep busy.Its good honest work that leaves me tired but feeling accomplished at the end of the day. There's some thing honest about working with your hands and the good night sleep that accompanies a weary body. I've always told Wifey I'd like to own a farm some day, and working around here only reinforces that. We started a patio garden earlier this year when I gave my wife a small tomato plant. That garden has grown to two tomato plants, a pepper plant and some cucumbers. The strawberries gave us 5 or six juicy red fruits before it was attacked by the crow. It never really recovered after that. An expansion plan is already swirling in my head.
The messages at church have been good, though I've been feeling disconnected from the people there. It probably has something to do with the fact that we now live a lot farther away so connecting with people from church becomes more of an effort and the fact that I used to be a lot more involved than I am now. Two memorable messages were from Dave Snow and Buzzy Enniss. Dave spoke on July 4 about how we were made to be connected to God and people- Happy Dependence Day. Buzzy spoke on father's day, and had a choose your own adventure story about Moses being asked to do great things for which he was either unprepared or just thought he was unprepared. But he gave a great point that I keep thinking about - Success is not found in the outcome but rather in the obedience.
Lastly (though these points are not in any sort of chronological order) Wifey, B, and I went to Pasadena for a weekend. Wifey went to a womens conference and B and I wandered around the city. We went and checked out Fuller Theological Seminary and I really liked it! I'm hoping at some point to be able to go back to school. I have this dream, and some day it might work out of working part time as an associate pastor at a church, teaching one or two adjunct classes and writing books about theology and church history. Oh and having a farm too. Someday. But for now, I work to eat and support my family, which is ministry number one.
