for the love

Just a quick post to let everyone know I'm home now and very pleased with last week's trip. I'll be posting a lot about the trip in the coming days. Unfortunately, the transfer port on my camera came home in less than ideal conditions, so my 1,048 pictures are going to have to wait to be shared here until I can get it fixed. But once I do, watch out. I think my Flickr might explode. In the mean time, check out the link I added to my blogroll - Panama Jack . Jack Farber is the director of Latin American Missions. He has been posting blog updates on the work we did last week, as well as the work that will continue this week. I'd also like to share that I am now an official member of the Delayed Luggage Club! I'll let you know in a few days if that membership gets upgraded to the ( officially ) Lost Luggage Club. I'm pretty stoked about the whole thing. I mean, it's an honor just to be nominated. Thanks Delta. Also, special thanks goes out to Atlanta Int'l...

You can't see me here, but that's me...floatin' down the Panama Canal. Or at least, that WILL be me, in about 24 hours or so. Blogging here will be non-existent for the next week. Like that's anything new. I hope you'll pray for our safety and success! I can't wait to get some REAL pics of this place. Love & Peace - see you next week.

I fear I have led my readers astray in my previous post. I'm here to set the record straight: all is well. I am not depressed. I am not sad. I am not worried. I was more or less just venting. I was also tired. Lesson to the kiddies: never blog on an empty sleep-bank. I enjoy that my life is full of activities and pursuits and responsibilities. I just need to learn to get enough sleep in order to manage it all gracefully. Set your own record straight.

Life has been in fast-forward lately. It keeps whizzing by me like I'm a passenger in a speeding car. Cliche as of late: "work has been crazy" Trying to buy a house. Freaking out overing trying to buy a house; but being simultaneously elated over the whole thing. Trying to write a blog as a side-gig. I missed my side-job today. I'm supposed to leave on a mission trip to Panama in just over a week. Note the word "supposed". I feel so unprepared for it in all respects. Physically. Emotionally. Worst of all, spiritually. I literally don't even know what my assignment is yet, nor have I personally received my flight itinerary. I have heard rumors, though, that others on our team have received this...itinerary. I am struggling with this idea that the trip has come before the mission . I feel it should be the other way around. Or maybe it is, and I am just not privy to the plan. In that respect, I am a blind missionary. I know there is a need, but I won't ...

Warning: I'm about to be shameless. So a lot of you know that I write for another site called About Nashville hosted by 451Press.com. My editors are running a contest for their current writers that will pay $500 to the writer that can get the most incoming links during the month of July. Every time someone you link this blog or this site from your blog or site, I become one link closer to the cash victory. What's in it for you? My undying appreciation, of course. Kidding. I will return the favor with a little link love of my own for ya. So let's get linking!! Mama needs a new pair of shoes is trying to buy her first house this year! UPDATE : if you do choose to participate, please leave a comment or send me an email so I will know about it. Right now, I'm not sure I know any other way to catch your link.