| | Well, so much for social justice, at least as far as my desire to write is concerned. I really would like to write about it, but seeing as it feels like homework, I'm going to let it stew a bit. As I heard one pastor say once, "I can't preach on it, for it has not properly potted." Indeed.
I'm leaving in an hour or so to go to Heilbronn, which is where I attend church. It's a few hours away by train, so an elderly couple in the congregation has been gracious enough to open up their home and let me use their spare bedroom on Saturday nights. Grace upon grace! Even better, I'm leaving with them and a small group from the church to go to the annual School of Theology at the Metropolitan Tabernacle in London. Formerly under the ministry of the Prince of Preachers himself, it is now one of London's healthiest and most active churches. The theme this year is "The Glory of Christ in the Working Church," and it seems like they've pulled together a really stellar program.
This is my first trip to the UK, and to be honest, I'm looking forward to hearing some English for once. Of course, if the Disney Corporation hasn't led me astray, everyone talks like Mary Poppins, which is pretty cool. I'm looking forward to that, too. With the recent bomb attempts in the city, it even feels like going to a dangerous country, which stokes the smoldering embers of testosterone within me. Who'd have thought that London would be dangerous for Christians?
I'm also less than a month away from being back in the States. By the time I get back from London, it'll be less than two weeks (thirteen days, actually, as someone keeps reminding me). I'll have a couple of finals exams, about which I'm not worrying in the least, and then just taking care of my bureaucratic duties to unregister from everything I had to register for when I first got here (city government, rail pass, bank account, etc., etc.). It should be a hectic last week, but at the end of it all stands the beloved, so I'm not too worried.
I'm starting to get sort of excited about home. As funny as it sounds, I really am anxious about hearing English again. It's been so long that I heard it all around me. When I first got to Germany, I would have a headache at the end of the day for the first couple of weeks just from having to re-tool my brain to German mode. Will that happen once I'm back in the land of free refills? I'm also wondering about church, school, finances....you could say I'm hitting the ground running. The Lord is big enough to handle it all, I've been assured, so I'm trying to keep it all in perspective.
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| | Posted 6/30/2007 7:25 AM - 26 Views - 4 eProps - 3 comments
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