Pastor’s Log – Sabbatical Date 3.1.8
Week
one of my third sabbatical is complete and it has been a good week. I’ve been able to get extra rest, do some
reading, and go through some training for our trip to Burkina Faso in
June. Plus I have worked on some
projects around the house like cleaning/ organizing my study at home. Doing this yielded some fun vintage pictures of Beth and
her family. Plus as odd as it may sound, this work was very renewing
for m;e all the while being more present to my family and giving Beth some extra
help.
Among the projects I completed, the
boys were very excited that I was able to get our trampoline back up on
Tuesday. I take it down over the winter
in the hopes that it will last longer, and they have been waiting for it to be
back up again. Additionally, with some
help from David Segroves, I was also able to replace a gas valve for our grill. Thanks, David!
Another part of my time with family
is being the assistant coach for Maggie’s Jr. High girls’ soccer team. They were supposed to have their second soccer
game of the season on Monday, but it got postponed to Friday and then postponed
again. As such, we had to settle for
another week of practice getting ready for an away game on Tuesday, May 7th.
One night this week, Elam went
shopping with Beth. While in the store,
the song “What is Love?” by Haddaway came on and Beth said that Elam was rocking
out to it. Elam assures me that he was
making fun of it; but knowing this, I decided to pull out my 1993, vintage
cassette album containing the song. I listened to that album many times in high school and have been playing it in
the van as my "album of the week." The
kids are mostly less than thrilled by it, but it is a fun trip down memory lane
for me.
On Thursday, I gave Beth a respite
as I ran Daddy Daycare for her. She went
with Josiah’s class to a Loon’s game in Midland. She doesn’t get to go on many field trips as a
chaperone these days due to her work watching little ones. While she went to
the game, I managed the seven little ones that she normally babysits for during
the day.
Over the weekend, we hosted some of
Beth’s family and also my family. They
came up to see the elementary musical, Peter Pan Jr. In it, Josiah played Mr. Darling and Captain
Hook. Silas played a lost boy named
Hop. And Elam was part of the back stage
crew. It was fun to see my boys doing
something that they love and that they are so good at. Thanks to all of you who came out to see the
show and support them.
On
Saturday, Silas had his first U8 soccer game of the season. I am also coaching his team this spring and
their first game last Saturday got cancelled due to the cold temperatures. The
game went well over all, though we lost 5-9.
I was proud of the kids for playing hard the whole game and one of the girls
scored three of our goals.
On Sunday,
Maggie and I went to worship at Good Shepherd Lutheran Church up by Sand
Point. While on sabbatical, I am taking
the opportunity to worship with other congregations of various traditions. The timing was good in that three of Maggie’s
classmates (two of which are a couple of her closest friends) were being
confirmed and Maggie wanted to go to support them. I was very glad to be able to make that
happen for her in a way that I normally would not be able to. We ended the week with our first campfire
style cookout of the season in our backyard, enjoying the beautiful weather.
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