It's been a while since I've posted anything meaningful...I keep meaning to, but...

Last week I started a teaching series with my Sr. High students called "The Justice Mission." It's a Youth Specialties cirriculum that works with the International Justice Mission that works to give students a perspective on God's heart for the poor and oppressed. Last week I had done the prep work...watched the video clip, reviewed the cirriculum, chosen the appropriate questions and was set to go. As I started to teach, I found myself getting more and more swept up by what I was teaching. Rarely do I get emotional when I teach, but as I talked about God's heart for the oppressed, how God HATES oppression and poverty, it was all I could do to hold back tears. I didn't see it coming, and didn't expect it. I hope that it continues and that students continue to see the passion in my heart that I didn't realize that I had...

Side note: Many of you have heard of or read Shane Claiborne. I recently found out that The Simple Way community in Philly was burnt to the ground by a fire started in an abandoned warehouse that was owned by the city of Philadelphia. Over the last two months, the community has attempted to rebound and the city (apparently) has been terrible to work with. Please keep them in your prayers and make the Call of the Day if you have time...It's a prime example of oppression and injustice within our very state! May we be called to show God's heart to the city of Philly!

Yeah, I'm a Simpson's character...

That was AWESOME!

Yeah...That helped make for a pretty awesome weekend. The Ocoee River in TN...The 1996 Olympic Whitewater. Awesome.