I'm just not sure that the development of cheap, huge inflatable characters is going to turn out to be a win for humanity. Because when everyone can afford to have a giant spherical Santa in their front yard...well, evidence suggests that they will just go ahead and do it.
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I'm focusing on skool and getting as much done as possible before this weekend, so that I won't be quite as hosed as I am at this moment. Can I just pause here a moment to reflect on how much my first semester of deacon skool has sucked? Because it really has, despite my best efforts to be all perky about it. It's not a quitting kind of suckage, it's more that I've had to take a really hard look at myself and the many ways in which I can be a real asshole sometimes, as well as the ways in which I go out of my way to set up a nice spectacular failure now and then, and many other things I do which are ultimately less than helpful. So I'm trying to work out a new way to be in the world, and it's weird and uncomfortable, but it's also a good thing, this stripping away. I just thought that I'd, you know, signed up for the easy plan. Which is entirely not the case as it turns out. The payoff, of course, is that I have a very strong sense of God working in the world and in me.
Really cool moment today - a woman came in who was trying to get to Seattle, but she was out of gas and out of food and hadn't eaten since yesterday. Which totally could have been a scam, except I just knew that I was supposed to help her. I pulled together some food from the kitchen; I found a cereal bar when we started looking and gave that to her so that she could eat something right away, and I really don't think she was kidding about not eating, although she was trying not to just wolf it down. We got her set up, I may have slipped her something from my wallet (I'm not saying I did, since that would be against policy), and then we went out into the courtyard so that I could point her back to the freeway and to the cheapest gas station up the street. It was such a gorgeous day - it had been raining a bit, so everythiing was clear and clean and slightly sparkling, and almost at the same time, we both said, "God is good," because that was the only possible reaction. Her name is Cora, and a few extra prayers her way would be appreciated. She really blessed me today.
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