Countdown to Family Reunion!

As I sit in my office, off the quiet administrative hall, I find myself day dreaming about my upcoming week of vacation at the Halstead Family Reunion!  Dreams about fiction novels, time to cross-stitch, S'mores (in moderation of course), and hours of sing around the campfire make it very difficult to focus on church e-mails.

I am someone for whom smells are the strongest memory trigger.  My favorite smell is Amusement Park.  However right now, I am longing for campfire, state park bathrooms, dirt, and bug spray.

I need the "front porch" communion more and more, as our culture spins farther away from it towards a "view-screen" community.  I keep having visions of Wall-E, even as I sit here in front of my own screen, blogging.  And so, even as I finish e-mails for the day, I create space in my heart for the longing of sitting by a campfire circle to take hold.

Passion for eye-contact relations is not about wasting time, it is a heart declaration that God's time means more to me than a tick-tock-clock.