Adventure for today...

Adventure for the day; Pulled up to my “other” office (esquires). Saw some lumpy old dog wandering across the street and almost get run over. So i pet him a bit read his tag and call the owner who automatically knew he would be outside Subway (Subway is beside Esquires). He seemed pretty happy to just sit there smelling subway, and really who can blame him so i went in to get my caramel and coffee fix. I am sitting there working on my message and one of the girls comes up and says “sorry sir but there are no dogs allowed in here”. I guess i must have given her one of those completely blank and yet very confused stares, and what could i say? “Ok?” then she pointed at the ground just behind me and to the right, “isn’t that your dog?” well sure enough that lumpy old dog had followed me in and plunked down beside me. Which explained the funky smell that i thought was coming from the bathroom since i was sitting right beside it as there were no other spots available. Anyway she thought that was pretty funny and led him outside and gave him a couple of yesterday’s biscuits. The owners should find that pretty funny latter on tonight. But oh well not my problem i called them again there is my civic duty. They should put a better fence up.
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Life as a pastor...

Oh my goodness dave is actually passing me in blogs either that means I am a huge slacker or much less a nerd, i would like to think the latter.
My life as a pastor is both much more and much less busy than I had anticipated. being that this new church is so much tinnier the number of “official” coffee’s is much less plus i am not working with any other youth leaders or pastors so i don’t get together with those folks. But I do have a lot of bumping into people i sorta know or used to know and end up catching up then talking about where I am now and often end up talking about spiritual matters. Of course they are not talking to “Pastor Tim” they are just talking to “that Tim guy they know”. This suits me just fine I dig talking about God with people, no matter what context. I do get antsy though to really get meaty with the church plant though. i mean I love preaching on sundays and confirmation is actually fun and seems the kids are into it too. We even have a bit of a youth group going. But it seems like I have been researching Church planting forever and have all these idea’s and musings of what we could do and where God could be leading us but the actual process of discerning the next step and taking it seems so painstakingly slow. w e are just now getting into some vision planning, and we are about to start a bible study i hope to move into the realm of leadership planning and training. t just seems like we are going so slow. i know these things take time bla..bla...bla... patience!? not so much one of my stronger virtues! But oh well thats life i’m settling in and looking forward to what God is doing and what the future holds even if it does seem so far away.
Life with Erika is stupendous. We are fiddling around with renovations to get her house ready to be our love nest. That too I just want to bite into but we have to wait for the electrician and time of course. We started with marriage counseling, thats pretty cool, we’ve talked about allot of this stuff already but to have to articulate it for someone else kinda puts new perspectives on things and helps us to realize there are some things we need to dig into a bit more. And of course the wedding there is not a ton going on but there is always some little detail to mull over and such. Mostly though tis just allot of fun to hang out and go through life together. Marriage looks like it is going to be a very interesting blast.
anyway kids hope that’ll hold ya for a little bit. love ya.
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