For Today

I just got home from work. I always finish at either 3 or 4 on Tuesdays because I have house church on Tuesday nights.

For whatever reason, I'm still feeling pretty tired and drained. My day off yesterday was good, but I'm really excited for Friday, because I booked five days in a row off work. I may try and make a mini retreat somewhere - any ideas for somewhere in the city that's free? Maybe the weather will be good and I can take myself to fish creek park for a while or something. I'd love to go to the mountains, but that's not looking particularly feasible - no vehicle to get there. Although, I am toying with the idea of renting a car for a few days - anyone interested in spending some time in the mountains with me on Friday, Saturday or Sunday? And in sharing the cost of the car rental and gas to get there?

I'm going to crawl into my bed sometime in the next couple minutes with a couple of books. The first is a novel titled "Savannah from Savannah" which seems thus far (I've only just begun this afternoon) to be quite fun and witty in style. The second is a compilation of writings by a rather obscure twelfth century German nun and mystic named Hildegard of Bingen. I studied her a little bit in one of my (many) church history classes, and found her rather fascinating. I spotted an edition of some of her writings at Chapters the other day, and went back to pick it up - the whole female/mystic thing intrigues me - particularly one from a century where it would have been even more unusual than it sounds today.

And after that, house church. Except we're cleaning and doing repairs in the building our church uses tonight. I'm still working on my attitude for that. I'm not such a fan of being semi-volunteered for service projects. Particularly when we're cancelling a normal Bible study in favor of working. I'd be willing to show up on a different night to work, but I hate that we cancel house church to clean. But hey, I'll go, because we might be going out for "beer and wings" afterwards - neither of which appeals, but I'm sure anyplace that serves beer and wings will also serve real food.

And with that I'm off to read. And possibly return a couple of emails.