Friday, August 13, 2004
ON SABBATICAL
Feeling the need for some study time and some rest, my church and I agreed that I would be on Sabattical 3 weeks in August -- 8, 15 and 22. So I am in the midst of that Sabbatical. The goal is to do some studying in preparation for our 50 Day Spiritual Adventure which begins September 12th. I want to Blog more about that very soon.
It became more and more difficult to work full time, be a husband-caregiver for a sick wife, help my kids and friends, prepare weekly messages for Countryside and carry on other aspects of the ministry there -- AND to adequately study and prepare for a whole new series of messages for the 50 Day Adventure. I was so tired and getting little to no rest--physically, mentally or emotionally.
So I am trying to discipline myself to study, rest, prepare, rest, spend time with Karon, rest, (you get the idea.) So far it is going well. I have completed the preparations for the service for August 29th (my first Sunday back). I have surveyed the plan for the 50 Day Adventure. Now I am ready to get down to the actual study and preparation.
I have a dear friend (probably my best friend) who loves me and completely understands me. He is holding me accountable to get rest during this Sabbatical. I am so grateful to him for his encouragement and for his holding me accountable in this area. My temptation is to cram all I can into the time of the Sabbatical--excluding any rest! But my friend is "holding my feet to the fire" and I am getting some rest.
Karon and I have enjoyed watching several DVDs. Some excellent and some poor (according to our tastes and judgement). We have different tastes in movies. I really liked "The Secret Window" but she isn't into thrillers. She really like "Welcome to Mooseport". I thought it was okay. We both liked "Miracle", "Out of Time" and "Drumline". There were others that rated "so-so" in our opinons and one that was absolutely awful. I can't even remember the name of it.
Oh well, we have enjoyed our movie-watching; popcorn eating time together. Oh yes, and we've done some Bible readng-studying together, too.
One of the highlights was going to see the exhibit of "The Dead Sea Scrolls'. Absolutely fantastic. The video they showed at the beginning of the experience was excellent.
Saturday we go to the Indiana State Fair. That should be fun. The weather is great--by my standards. It is about 20-degrees cooler than normal and low humidity. Karonis freezing! Hope we have a good day for the Fair. I hate to think of pushing her all over the Fairground in a wheelchair in the rain! (We won't go if it is raining.)
Now you have a brief summary of my life during the first half of August. As if you cared!
Jim
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Tim is coming down tomorrow and we might go to the fair too, so if we are, I'll try and get ahold of you!
-Jennifer
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