There are white flakes beginning to fall. I do not want this yet!
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And back again
This weekend I traveled out to Calgary to a retreat centre called Entheos where the Canada Covenant was holding a leadership retreat to help with Spiritual Direction.
The weekend was rewarding in many ways. I met new friends, was able to do some spiritual direction and heard some phenomenal speakers. 
And for me it was great to get out into nature again. There were some great walking paths and so I’ll post some more pictures on Flikr. That will probably happen tomorrow since I am tired from the long drive home and have a full day of work tomorrow.
Update: you can see more photos here
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Today
I managed to change the picture on the blog header – with some minor glitches that I actually was able to figure out. Things were looking a little blank earlier. It has been one of those days.
At work we had people lined up it seemed and we were trying to help these guys who have totally neglected themselves. It seems a bit as if they wait till they are desperate till they come in. So we do our best, we decide that somehow in the next fifteen minutes we are going to achieve anesthesia,have the tooth out and the patient on their way, getting the room ready for the next patient. Only sometimes – well – all the great plans fall through and the extraction requires some extra surgery or the patient doesn’t get numb as fast as we hoped. Then all of a sudden we have four more patients lined up and we are a bit behind. At about 4:45, all of a sudden everyone has been cared for and we are shutting down right on schedule, surprised that the afternoon went as well as it did.
Not only was it a busy day at the office but after work I swung by the store to pick up milk and wraps so that I could make supper and leave some food in the cupboards for the boys who will be dropping in over the weekend.
Then home for a quick supper, packing up my bass as I eat and finishing my packing for the weekend. To orchestra practice then up to the bank, to the gas station and car wash. Dropped a book off at the church, returned home, vacuumed out the car and loaded up my stuff into it. Randall drives it out to Calgary and after a meeting tomorrow, I fly out there to participate in a leadership retreat.
I also started something which I hope will be the beginning of a rewarding pursuit. I signed up for Introductory Greek. Distance learning. I may be crazy but it seemed as if for me this was the place to start.
And I realized that this is not going to be a cheap endeavor!
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Autumn Blue
There should be a colour called autumn blue.
The sky is an incredible clear rich blue. The leaves are golden. There is no wind. It is warm.
At least I have windows to watch this autumn day pass as I work. But I wish I were out lying under this sky not looking at it through glass.
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Weekend visitors
Tonight on my way home, I stopped at the daycare and picked up Zaka. He is staying with us overnight so that his mom can go down to see her brother and sister for a birthday supper and some partying. She turns 21 next week. i think she is a pretty awesome mom and Zaka is a pretty good little guy. He is getting ready for bed now and watching Dora on his DVD player.
After supper we were watching the CFL game. We were all rooting for Winnipeg – cause of course if they won it moved the Riders up in the standings. Zaka loves to watch sports and he kept chanting, "Go Blue, go!"
It has been a fun evening and now Dave and Annette and their kids have arrived so we are getting to have a houseful. It will be a busy weekend but it will be good. A nice change from a big empty house. Sometimes even a baby’s cry is welcome noise.
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Early Morning
A couple of us still get together for early morning prayer at the church – Gatecrashers. It is early and some days hard to get there but I am always so glad when I do.
This morning was no different.
Good to be in the presence of God with a friend talking about the needs of our church, our friends, our families and bringing it all to God at the start of the day.
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Women’s book study
We began reading the book The Real Mary by Scott McKnight. I think it will be a good book to read and discuss as a group of women. Sometimes our discussion wanders a ways from the original topic so we touched on everything from the humanity of Jesus to the Trinity. It was good to look back at the passages in Luke and Matthew and think about what the real Mary has to tell us about faith and trust. We have lots to learn from her and our challenges are not so big as hers must have been.
My challenge is to act as something of a leader. Sometimes I feel as if we go on wild goose chases. However, that must be a sign that we are free enough to ask questions – another topic we touched on – that God gave us minds that ask questions so that we should not be afraid to explore. Questions keep us from being sucked into taking another’s word as truth without understanding.
Now I am tired and tomorrow begins another busy week.
Good night all.
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Limbering up the claw
Well, orchestra started again for me tonight. This year the conductor mercifully chose music that was more at the beginner level. Many of the top players have moved on. Jenelle, our lead bass is teaching in Belgium for a couple of years. Another has gone away to school – flight school no less. That leaves me and one other bass player. So far she has not come to practice.
That leaves me.
Not terribly promising if you want a strong bass section.
I am not strong. Sometimes the terms he uses are like Greek to me. Who knows, maybe they are Greek. And since I have not done a lot of practicing over the summer, I pretty much sucked tonight.
Even my bass claw seems to have stiffened up and the old ring finger wants to get in on the action and should be quietly lining up with the middle finger.
It just seems such a busy year so far. I though I would maybe dispense with the Monday night lesson and see if I could keep up on my own. I guess I may need to reconsider that!
So, I return from orchestra feeling lousy – like a failure, like I will never get it right. And this is supposed to be fun. Maybe instead of a pity party I just need to use my time wisely and practice every chance I get.
Yeah, I think that is it. By the end of the year I will be better. I know.
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