After a thrilling first two weeks of homework help/feeding/bible lessons, we were excited to have my friend Jonathan come down from Chicago and check out our new lives. He dove into our activities here, helping us manage the demands of complicated ministry and family situations.
Here he is playing accordion for Jennifer and Vanessa:
We got out of town for the weekend, camping at Elijah Clark State Park with our friends Josh and Margaret, Jonathan, my brother Eric, and his friend Gordon. The only group activity was a rousing game of mini golf on an aging course. We spent the rest of the time lounging, feeding the fire, conversing, and making music together.Although the end of the weekend brought with it a new set of pains, stresses, and opportunities, I am thankful that we at least had that time to get away and recharge. Now it's back to the tasks at hand:
how awesome is it to have friends like Jonathan dive into caring for those kids the same way you do?
ReplyDeleteJonathan witnessed some of the most humiliating moments of my life - voice lessons at Moody. haha..
On a scale of 1 to completely awesome, it is super cool.
ReplyDeleteWe had planned it to be a vacation, but he kind of parachuted into a firefight due to some...complications.