Still Puzzled...

Coming once again from within the walls of high school [to the tune of the IU fight song: "Oh Warsaw High..."]. Today: English 9 and 11 and a block of art also. I'm so versatile! These art kids are such posers... they want to be bad for me and are falling so short. What's up, patience... boo and yah. Thankfully, not having a prep period today means getting a pay bump up... THAT's a crazypraise as I'm strapped for bones and fear I will likely need to get new brakes and roters on the Black Bomber before heading to Traverse City. I'm feeling random today. Things are normal then - check!

I hope I along with some of my friends and everyone going anywhere this summer -- and those staying in Muncie or home -- experience healing and WANT healing this summer in and from different struggles in their lives. I believe God is in the biznass of gracefully giving healing and renewal to those who desire it and pursue Him for it. I believe right now He is in the process of glorifying Himself through our faith in Him being proven. This is shown through perseverance and, yes, struggle. I'm glad I'm struggling. It means I'm alive. If I wasn't, I think I'd be more than slightly freaked. I'd like to adapt a Hebrews 10:34 mentality: I know that I myself have better and lasting possessions than anything that can be confiscated from me on this earth. Yeah, I'ma claim that promise right now. In the words of Clive Staples, err, C.S. Lewis [my favorite author], "Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind." I'm leaning on the promise of those better things ahead, invisible as they are.

I introduced four friends from home to Homestar the other nite [www.homestarrunner.com, for the uneducated]. The new email was el lame-o sadly, so we then of course had to view FratBoy [proper name "Theme Party"] email as well, especially because my friend Rob is in SAE at Bucknell U. and we got a big kick out of that. Man, first Billy Joel's "We Didn't Start the Fire" played, now Louis Armstrong is coming on the school radio station in that throaty voice of his, singing "What a wonderful world." And in this moment, I am happy.