Just Thought of This Again

So I told you about this 'Blast from the Past' in the last post. I also saw a few weeks ago on the News another blast from the past. There is this girl, a girl I met early on...the first girl I met actually on my 'shaddow' shift as a Juvie volunteer. I think the news said that she had run away from some program, without her meds, she isn't a danger to society in a direct way but she has potential. She was locked up in Juvie those early days, on arson charges: She had attempted to burn down her garage by lighting a mattress on fire.

Blast from the Past

Cliche I know.

So It's Friday so that means this afternoon I spent in bed in hopes that the little sleep I can convince my body it needs will last me to at least 8:30am tomorrow morning. Then the phone rang. Please don't call me Friday afternoon...or Saturday, but especially Friday.

It was one of my girls from Juvie (one that had aged out of the system well before I left), calling me collect form Kent County Jail. I talked to her for a short minute and then hung up the phone and proceeded to go back to sleep...

I was thinking about it as I was laying there and the strangeness of what just happened. I figure that if God's plan for me is to one day get back into ministry, this is the opportunity that he's going to use to do it. She goes to court on the 29th (I will attempt to make it) and she'll either go back to jail or more likely, be on probation for 6 months. We'll see.

Yes, I Know

Yes, I know it has been AGES since my last post. So long, in fact, that I probably have no more readers so I can just blah, blah, blah because no one reads this anymore... So here goes.

My semester started a few weeks ago...late nights and early mornings. Ironically enough, with the addition of weekend third shifts and Don's late night, every night class, I still think we spend more quality time together now than other semesters (we're down to Tuesday and Thursday mornings and Saturday and Sunday afternoon/evenings of quality time). Wow...if our marriage survives college and grad school, it will survive anything!

I'm taking the usual four classes: Counseling Philosophy, Counseling Techniques, Counseling Testing and Procedures, and Systematic Theology 1. That last one is more reading that I've ever done in my lifetime! Two of these are night classes so Mondays and Thursdays (so far Thursdays) have been the 'Popcorn and pop for dinner' nights. That may change because several of us are at school all day Thursday or have back-to-back late afternoon and evening classes so we're going to do a pot luck each week for dinner. I'm looking forward to that.

I've also been struggling in keeping close to God in the past few months and I'm trying to get down to the bottom of it without stating the obvious (not doing daily devotions...well, currently not being regular with it). I guess it's really been for a good portion of this year actually...struggling with one thing or another. Such is life right? ...But then again, should it be?

I'm itching to 'move on with life', in other words, buy a house and start having kids. Ha! I'm beginning to thing that will never happen. We were hoping next spring but financially, the prospect doesn't look good despite the fact Don will be finished (finally) with school by then.

So this summer...since I last blogged... That wedding in Ohio, a second summer class, boredom and more boredom, weekend third shifts, and then school. That sums it up. Better than some, not as good as others. In me not blogging, you definitely didn't miss much.

I will work to be more regular...well, then again, I've said that before.
Peace out and don't do anything I wouldn't do.