post-holiday, pre-spring, mid-winter...

Yesterday I bought sun block. I was standing in line in the grocery store, it was right by the counter, 50% off…yeah, I know it’s winter. It’s snowing like crazy this whole week…. I keep looking at photos of our beautiful holiday in Croatia…I think I remember what the sun looked like, gently reflecting off the water….

Life is at a lull right now. Tons of things are happening, but it’s all in the planning stage. Planning for summer English camps, teams, training. Planning for the spring girls’ conference. Planning for outreach English lessons in February…oh, wait, that’s actually next week!

Yesterday I and two girls (Ika and Bea) and one guy (Honza) from our youth group met and prayed for the English course that I’ll be teaching and they’ll be attending in a neighboring city called Karvina. Our church* is trying to plant a church in this city of 50,000, and as part of that effort the 4 of us are involved in these English lessons. As we prayed for the high school students who will come, God gave me this sense of anticipation…that this class won’t just be about grammar, but about the love and truth of Jesus made manifest among us…about these 3 kids getting a bigger heart for their peers…yeahhhh!!! That's way more exciting than even a holiday at the beach.

*My church now is the Cirkev Bratrska in Cesky Tesin…for information on the Czech denomination Cirkev Bratrska, you can go to http://www.cb.cz/ and click on the little British flag for the text in English.