Busy then Busier

Well, we knew that it would be a busy week this week. This is the week before my ordination. I have a sermon to write, school work to do for the week, a paper for which this and next are the week to get my resources, gotta get both cars cleaned out and oil changes done, have an interview on Skype this afternoon, had to get a suit to the dry cleaners and then...... It happened...... I was making sure that everything was out of my suit pockets, when I noticed it...... a hole in the knee. I know I did not fall in my suit, its just been hanging in my closet for about a month or so. I took my pants off the hanger and started looking closer at them and found holes all over the suit, not just the pants but in the jacket as well. I tried to recall wearing it and being near a fire, but I've never worn it near a fire. As Charlie Brown would say: "ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHH!!!!"

Yesterday began the inevitable run around town looking for a suit. Let me just say one thing about clothes shopping: I have my wife dress me. She knows what I look good in, I trust her opinion on these things implicitly and at some point in the break down of it all I just don't care. I know the thoughts, I think them too: What!? you don't care what you look like? No, not really. I know people judge you on the way you look, I do it to, and I know its wrong, but it really doesn't matter to me what people think of me by the way I dress. It is not those opinions that we look for in valuable friendships and building community anyway. The opinions that we want were the ones they will think while we are interacting with them and after they're gone. Thoughts such as "That's a really nice guy." "That guy really loves the Lord." "I had him pegged all wrong." Now don't get me wrong. I like to look good, especially for my wife (which is why I have her dress me). As long as she thinks I look good (and that is something that I can see in her eyes) I know I look good.

I digress, we bought a suit last night after much searching, which looks good, but we are going out to a couple more stores today to check things out and see if we can't find a better deal.

It should be interesting as we close this week out and things begin to come together. I know I am having fun this week and trusting in God... BIG TIME...