college nostalgia and a 2 year old on my head...

what a cool last 2 days! We made it to MI and stayed with Angela's grandmother Sunday night. I did not get much sleep. Angela, Kyra and I were all in the same room. Angela and I were sleeping in seperate beds, with Kyra in her pack-in-play. About 5 am, Kyra decided she didn't want to be in her bed anymore. She does not know how to share a bed with someone. She kept trying to lay on my face. I kept waking up with her just laying in all sorts of very uncomfortable looking poses on my face. Then about 6:30 she lifts up my eye lid and goes..."daddy, change my diaper." Well, good morning to you to! :-) After not much sleep, we all managed to have a decent morning and afternoon and then I left for Rochester. I'll be picking the girls up to go to my mom's on Wednesday.

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I am now up here at Rochester College. Sara Barton asked me a while back to come and lead the worship for their morning assembly (a.k.a chapel, as we called it back in the day :-). Holly J. put together the praise team. I thought it was gonna be students; but it ended up being people I sung with back in the Autumn days. Holly J, Steph C, Dave C. and Jason R. We got together Monday night and ran through the songs. Those guys are all so awesome! I am continually amazed at how much musical talent lives in and around the college. We ended up scrapping one of the songs..."Your Love is Amazing (Hallelujah)" It was just not working acappella. Some songs just need a guitar! As it turns out, things are so different around here, I probably could have brought my guitar and led...
After we practiced, we hung out for a bit, and then I went and stayed with Dave and Lisa.

I think things went pretty good this morning. I have nothing to compare it to, but the college students seemed to engage in the worship.
Tonight I went with Brandon (a former member of FCC's youth group when I was a youth minister...man that makes me feel old!!) to the offering. That's their instrumental worship on Tuesdays. I was looking forward to just participating and not leading for a change. Unfortuanely, I've pretty much wore out my voice, so i couldn't really sing. That turned out to be a huge blessing. I just sat there, among the college students as they lifted their voices in praise. Very cool. One of the girls next to me had just a beautiful voice. And on the other side, a guy who really couldn't hold a tune at all. And it was powerful. He was pouring out his heart to the Father. For a brief moment I think God let me into his kick-butt listening room, and I got to hear things how he hears them.

So it's been great to visit with old friends, see familiar faces on staff and get the chance to give back something to the community here at RC. I don't know if any students felt blessed from our time together this morning; but I was blessed.

I spent the rest of the day catching up with staff members. I spent some great timw with Jan Coe. I happend to stop by her office and we ended up talking for quite a while. She is a such a blessing that campus. We shared some stuggles in our lives and prayed together. I miss those times with people like Jan. I then decided to spend some R&R with just myself. I headed over to the big Barnes & Nobles, pulled up a book and just read for awhile. I'm always so "busy", I don't make enough time to just be still. I was reading through the book, "...figures, as I go to type it, I can't remember the title..." (no that's not what the book is called) oh well, but I did write down 2 good quotes from the book in my palm pilot. I'll probably wake up at 3 am with the book title on my brain...anyway, here's the quotes:

"I am convinced the great tragedy is not the sins that we commit, but the life that we fail to live."

AND

"We have defined holiness through what we seperate ourselves from rather that what we give ourselves to."

I though that last one was especially profound...unpack that for a while.

As to not paint myself as the object of spiritualness...I didn't just read "god" books, I also had to give into the tempatation to once again drool over a mac by thumbing throw some Mac magazines...is that lusting? :-)


One things for sure...I can't live the college life anymore. I'm writing this entry from Brandon's dorm room. (it's weird being back in here) , it's 11 pm and they all left to go "out". I'm dead-tired and feel like an old foogey (did i spell that right ? :-) ah...to be 20 again! I'm going to sleep...