Letters, candles, and rumors

With the encouragement of a close friend, I have decided to blog.  I have resisted the urge to blog for some time now, but I have concluded recently that it will be "fun", at least, to post my scatterbrained thoughts for all to see.  I don't know exactly how often I'll post or what I will post about... perhaps this can become a means of venting, sorting my thoughts.  Wow. I have no idea what exactly I'm doing, basically.

So I'll begin with what's going on.  It's MLK day.  I slept in until noon which was a beautiful, beautiful thing.  ESPECIALLY because, when I woke up, I peeked outside the window and snow was falling.  I helped out this weekend with a D-Now retreat at Smithwood Baptist Church in Knoxville.  It was a great experience.  I worked with 8 middle school girls who are incredibly sweet--and smart, for that matter.  It ended up being the type of situation where one goes "to serve" but, in the end, finds that they have "been served".  Funny how it always works that way.  I remember going to retreats that were similar, when I was in youth group.  I left those weekends feeling like I was on a "spiritual high" of sorts.  I felt revitalized!  I also remember leaving those retreats thinking "I'm going to change!  I'm going to live a better life for Christ! Etc...Etc."  I would find, in the weeks following, that it is difficult to stay "in line" with everything I learned at the retreats.  I would go back to my old ways.  I'm praying that the girls I led this weekend will continue thinking about what they learned this weekend. 

I am currently fighting off the urge to spread a rumor that classes are cancelled tomorrow.  Wishful thinking, really.  I am optimistic, though.  It's currently 31 degrees and the temp. is dropping.  Snow is in the forecast.  It is getting slick on the sidewalks around campus... Etc... Etc.  I remember when I was a little kid, I would lay all of my snow clothes next to my bed.  We would have the sleds waiting at the bottom of the stairs, ready to go.  More often than not, I would wake up the next morning and there would be no sign of snow.  Hopefully not the case for tomorrow.

I wrote a couple of letters today.  I seem to always to unsatisfied with my letters, though.  I never write everything that I want to write.  I don't know why!  Of course nothing is better than talking in person... but I just walk away from my letters thinking that I am a shallow writer.  I'm probably just overanalyzing it. 

Well, I'm off to MCF, a campus ministry that I help out with.  Goodnight, WWW community.