working at harvard

so it's midnight, i just got home from work and will be back there in about 6 hours, but i am restless. so i thought i'd just share a few great things about working at harvard:

• nice promotions [just yesterday, to a manager-on-duty]
• working with wicked cool students
• getting free food from said students when they break for the dining hall
• talks with random geniuses, like this guy

i love my job.

Sojourn goes well too. we have had some pretty great meetings the past two weeks, and i am anxious for more of that. one meeting last week was everyone from Sojourn and the Boston Partnership teams...brainstorming, praying, talking, sharing. it's incredible how God's paired our teams up, and then within that, has individually paired the four of us with the four church-planters in terms of our personalities and hearts. it's exciting/encouraging to see more of the vision...like, actually see some substance to the work we've been doing, and gaining an appreciation for that. and my confidence has been lifted a lot over the past few weeks. so that's good, things are really starting to move forward. but i struggle with clouds of frustration, and doubt, and confusion. daily. thus, my inability to sleep. i am tired though, not so much physically, more head/heart tired. i'm definitely craving some White Mtn or Cape time, hopefully in the near future. or, some of that wicked 60 degree weather we had last week would be great as well...

new year, new ending

so the new year has come, and the past couple weeks have been somewhat rough/frustrating. but at the same time, this week has been incredibly exciting and encouraging. so pretty big things on both ends of the spectrum.

the new year began with the death of my grandpa on january 2nd. he was an amazing guy...and i miss him. but he's hanging out with Jesus right now, and it doesn't get any better than that.

i have lots to share, but it's going to have to wait til next week when i get my iBook back. i feel bad hogging other people's laptops, and i only get 20 minutes of computer time per day at the cambridge public library [which has been a great new discovery, i must say]. so stay tuned...i'll have some good stuff to share about Sojourn and the church plant and God being so stinkin' awesome.