No, really...

It only looks like I'm ignoring my blog. Really, I'm not. Okay, maybe I haven't posted for a few days, but that doesn't mean that anyone should assume that the Rapture has happened and I'm off wondering why most of us are still here...

Reasons/Excuses for lack of blogging:

1. I'm not working just now because my recent job in a warehouse has resulted in damage to my left arm (tendons, primarily) that has me off work for at least a few months, while some nice physiotherapists work their voodoo on my arm.
   
   
2. Both of our vehicles died within days of each other, so we've been either
   • hitching rides with friends,
   • taking the bus,
   • walking,
   • or cleaning the junk out of our basement (might as well...)
   
   
3. It's the end-of-year blitz for our kids; soccer has started and everything else has recitals, concerts, or exams attached to it. Now I know why people have those "Soccer Ate My Life" bumperstickers...

My eldest daughter spent the weekend at a Pentecostal youth conference (Wendy traded her services as a photographer for free tickets for Jordan and a friend), and she came back excited to discover that "there's so many of us!" -- she is one of two Christians that she knows of at her high school. The sight of almost two thousand Christian teenagers, from a variety of denominations, worshipping together at the UofW campus was really encouraging for her.

So, we're busy with "life-happens" stuff like reduced income, physiotherapy, and trying to save up money to fix our vehicles, but also grateful for "life-giving" stuff like a youth conference that encourages my daughter in her faith.

See? It's all good. And I even blogged about it.