Segway: Our entire village- counting the campus- is 5 blocks X 3 blocks. I would ride one in a second. Eating pizza while I buzzed by you people. Put your money in the jar. I think its way cool.

Bart has given evidence that he has experienced real revival at LBC.

Just got back from watching both my kids in Little Women. My daughter has almost 300 lines as Jo March. She was just marvelous. Wow was all I could say. To think that this is my kid is humbling. She has drive and commitment to any job she takes on that amazes me and it will reward her in life. If you want to ask God for a miracle, we are nominating her as a Toyota Community Scholar. If she gets it- and she is right down the pipe of what they want- it will change her life. I’ll keep you posted. It is odd. There were no college grads in my family, My dad dropped out at the 8th grade. His dad was a mountaineer and all the people before him. The originals were Welsh farmers trading mules for land in Va and Ky. Now here I am with college and seminary, back in the mountains less than an hour from where my grandfather is buried. My daughter is headed (God willing) for Centre College and a life of fulfilling her dreams. My son is dreaming of EKU and law enforcement. God is good generation after generation. But more than all that, she is a Christian girl who wants to teach English to poor kids out west, and he is a great Christian kid with musical gifts and great people skills. I won’t be surprised if she is teaching English here five years from now. We love both our kids, but this is Noel’s year and we are just happy every day to see her use her gifts and opportunities as she has.

Weird classes today. Lectured on relating to other religions, and pluralism, tolerance, etc. At the end of class, a new kid shouts out, “I think we ought to take all the f______ts out, line ‘em up and shoot ‘em.” This class looked at me because they know how I feel about that kind of language. So many Christians thing its acceptable to talk like that. I straightened him out and he was amazed. What was the problem? They’re F______ts. Let’s shoot ‘em. Matthew Shepherd II.

Then, next hour, this kid who is flunking almost all of his classes decides my class is the class to vent about it. So I let him, and try to encourage him to not give up. Well, he starts saying he’s going to “hurt” the next person who says anything to him about his grades. Being a teacher is such a vulnerable profession. You are in a position to do a lot of good, but sometimes the price of seeing what is really happening with kids and their violent world is discouraging. Of course, in each class there were all those other students who aren’t like that at all, but one threatening like that is tough, at least for me.

I have been working ALL DAY LONG and still have work to do. My father in law arrives tommorow, and has announced he is bringing the Hebrews 6 and 10 Bible studies he has written with him. (Inspired my watching my writhe last visit home.) He will read them to us over dinner ;-) I will be doing dishes. Many times over, trying to resist asking if anyone believes that everyone ever addressed in the Bible AS a believer, proved out to BE a believer? Or is it possible that some of those folks at Sinai (and in Hebrews) were in the OUTWARD covenant, but were going to be apostates in the near future? Or maybe I will just do dishes.

Then Friday my psuedo in-laws (the boyfriend’s parents) are coming. No theology yet. Just cool people. We will discuss a brideprice.

I will emerge when I emerge.