Lazy Sunday

Last week we were in California for 7 days. That was pretty rad. It went by fast because we tried to see as much of our families as possible. I was really blown away by how supportive our family is of us. I am pretty sure that we could not be doing what we are doing now if it weren't for the love and support of family. Got to do some only in CA stuff- ocean beach, park chalet, Peet's Coffee, In-N-Out, Hopyard, solar heated pool, Bimbo's etc. Enough to satisfy the cravings for a while.

What was really cool is the realization that Dallas is where we are meant to be right now. The Bay will always be home, but the life God has given us in Dallas ain't to shabby. Whitney and I talked about this while eating Pho! at a Vietnamese restaurant a couple blocks from our place. I really like living downtown. We hung out at the Old Monk last night and I realized that it is a regular hang out for us and that is pretty cool to. We have a great place to live, good friends, a good church, good jobs and altogether a pretty stinkin' good life.

I am loving summer. So nice to just be working and not have to study all the time. I am trying to read as much of the stuff that interests me as possible before going back to forced reading. I try to work on my Greek to. I like studying Greek and hope that I get really good at it. I am internally motivated because I think that knowledge of Greek will be the greatest asset to improve my preaching skills. Oh yeah there is that. I am not preaching right now. I want to. But I am not. I don't even know where or how I would. I know I am supposed to, and I will, but I am not yet. That can be frustrating. I am going to be praying about that.

On the plane on the way home from CA I read this from Spurgeon, "I protest that if I could not itinerate this country of England, I could not bear to preach. If I preach here always many of you would become Gospel hardened. I love to go ranging here, there and everywhere. My highest ambition I have is, that I may be found going through the entire land, as well as holding my headquarters in one position. I do hold that itinerancy is God's great plan. There should be fixed ministers and pastors, but those who are like apostles should itinerate far more than they do."

Itinerancy is my desire for ministry. I have said before that I would like to preach all over the world with my headquarters in the Bay Area. When I read this it jumped out at me and I realized why the thought of being a pastor does not appeal to me. I believe that God has created me to roam about preaching in lots of different places while holding my headquarters in a particular place, preferably within 30 miles of San Francisco.

Below is a shot of me while writing this post.