So, I haven’t updated in a bit…and I promised a Canada report

So, I haven’t posted in a while. Thought that it might be a good idea to write something. Everything is up in the air right now, I’m beginning to feel like that is the way the whole rest of my life will be.
I am starting school, but I don’t have two of the classes I want, which is due to me not filling out my ‘planner’ (which is a sheet that says I talked to my adviser) on time, so since I turned it in late, they won’t remove my hold until the 8th of September. That is like totally bogus. Besides that, I had a long talk with my pal Bob last night and it made me think about some stuff about the history of Godsearch (the young adult ministry at my church) and it made me think about the history that I come from. A lot of times I feel like I’m supposed to do something different then what I”m doing now, but my Mom pointed out that unless God releases me from what I’m doing, i.e. tells me something else to do, or opens up doors that point me in the right direction, I’m not supposed to stop being an engineer right now, because I have no idea what else I’m good at that I could get a degree in, and I don’t feel called to do anything else….although I don’t particularly called to be an Electrical Engineer right now. I have to say, that while I have nothing else to do, I am quite thoroughly sick of ECE classes, I’m tired of taking them, I’m tired of failing them (having failed two classes now…both required) I wish there was some way to just be done with this and doing something I enjoy.

I have previously stated that I am concerned about leading the small group, well I have less concern now about doing a decent job, but more I have concerns about having time to put into it. If I am going to pass these terribly annoying classes I have to take, and manage to not completely ignore my girlfriend so that our relationship doesn’t go into the pot I’m going to have to manage my time much better then I have been able to do in the past.
*Aside*
Rob just made a reference to Lamb a great book, by saying “I think the Catholic church is like bacon”, which for those of you who have never read the book, is like saying “I think that God doens’t really care about the catholic church (or more specifically it’s rules on everything)” This amuses me greatly that he said this.

I decided that I would actually write more about my Canada trip. The trip started off with us leaving my house in Winchester (over by Jacksonville IL) at about 5:30pm, and we drove through the night, which sucked, and we got to the lodge at about 1:30pm. We portaged twice and got found a campsite about the time it started raining. But after a brief shower we were able to set up camp with little or no problems. The rest of the week went by without any more rain. So I would talk more about the fishing, but I can sum it up by saying it didn’t suck, but it wasn’t good. I am not a huge fan of fishing so I didn’t do it much…most of what I did was shuttle people who wanted to do some serious fishing. I talked to my girlfriends Dad in the canoe for a good while the first day, as well as at the camp. That was really excellent because I got to pick a smart guys brain, and talk with him about my relationship with his daughter. I also spent some time talking with my Dad in the canoe….talking in the canoe is good because your basically alone….we talked about a large series of topics ranging from my life and my brothers to his ministry and where he is going with it. But I have to say that the best thing about the whole trip was the nights. The moon would rise casting a ray of deep orange onto the lake, and shortly after a bright mars would rise up just to the left of the moon. One night I turned my back to the moon to see the stars popping up behind the setting sun opposite the moon rising. What I saw was nothing short of amazing. A few whispy clouds seemed to be hanging just above the horizon, but as I watched closely I noticed that what I first thought was the last light of the setting sun reflecting off the edge of the clouds was really moving independant of the clouds. It was then I realized it was the northern lights. As we watched, a metor shower periodically streaked across the sky above the swirling glow of blue and purple. Streams of light blue shot up and down, occasioanally flaring up into a different shade of blue or a touch of red or orange, but it was beautiful. The last night of the trip we decided in the aftrnoon to pack up and portage across the first portage and we slept under the stars on a white sand beach. The trip after that was a return to normalcy, where we drove back to Deluth and slept in a hotel, ate at appelbees, got up early and left for home….we got home at about 9:30 in the PM, and I crashed at home and came back to Urbana for church the next morning.

So that was a great time, and very relaxing. And I have written enough now, so I will go to bed.

Thank you, and Goodnight.