Hello goodbye

So I'm sure you've noticed - if you've checked in at all here the last few months - I haven't been writing here - sorry! We've been pretty busy, but I hope to get on here more often in the next bit.

We just finished staffing a Discipleship School and an outreach to Argentina. It's been a marathon for us:

- Staffing a counseling school in Salem (June - August)
- Teaching in Wyoming (First week in September)
- Flying to Tennessee to support raise and visit family for a month (Second week of September)
- Did I say a month? I meant 10 days, since we ended up staffing a school there.
- Flew back to Salem to teach on Frontier Missions (October 13-17)
- Back to Tennessee for more lectures (October 18th - December 24)
- Home for Christmas, 10 days off, then (We flew on Christmas eve)
- Taught in LA on the nature and character of God (First week in January)
- Back to Salem to teach for 2 weeks
- Off to Argentina, arrive on Monday (January the 26th)
- Teach on Nature and Character from Tuesday through Saturday (27th through the 31st)
- Evangelism, open airs, miscommunications and exhiliration - until we returned on March 1st

We've been running hard this last season, and things will not be slowing soon. (Can you feel the wind in your hair?!) I am hoping to write a book this year, and God seems to be giving Ethan a matrix download for our future plans. Yee haw! Here are my latest thoughts, written this evening:

Hello goodbye
Livin life on the fly
And you wonder why I chose this life
Friends are here today
Then they’re gone away
To Sudan, Afghanistan
Practically every place there’s land
Off to another world
Some distant place
Without a face
Now it has yours
We are
Unstoppable
Unquenchable
Irrepressible
Intensely Passionate
Indelibly imprinted upon by the Spirit of God

Because we are the generation that seeks a face
But finds the heart
of a living God
One that seems absent to an onlooking world
How convenient to presume God does not see
Your unjust deeds

How hopeless to think
His ears are dull
You who sit in abandoned corners
You who cover your body in shame
Who wait and pray for
Someone to come and take you away
You who walk the fragile line between hope
and hopeless realities
What evidence of God do you see?
Do you need proof of His existence?
Then take a look at me.

Hello goodbye
Livin life on the fly
Don’t know why
you chose this life?

Then look around with me
I think you’ll see
A world that needs
A physical representation of a spiritual God
A living incarnation of a Man who died.

You look at me and think
I have nothing
You’re right
No measures in place
“Just in case” God falls through
I think it’s called faith
That forgotten substance of things hoped for,
Yet never seen.
Not a lot of green on these trees
Just seeds
Just promises of a harvest to come
I’m not looking for success
Just the knowledge I did my best
To carry out what You’ve asked of me.
This is my reality
And one day maybe others will understand
Until then, I’m off to some other land

Hello, Goodbye
Livin life on the fly
People wonder why
I chose this life

Maybe I see something they can’t see
Maybe they’re spending too much time
Looking at me
Maybe I look crazy because the treasure at hand
Has yet to be appraised by this band
of ogling onlookers
You think I go too far?
I’ve only just begun
I’ve only started to run
This race.
My pace may seem too fast
You stare with face aghast
But when I’ve reached the end, my friend
I’ll have no regrets.
And you . . .
Still have a chance to get your appraisal in.

Hello goodbye
I have tears to cry
Not now, but someday
Til then I’m living to pay my only debt
To love the King of Kings
With everything that is in me.
Off I go . . .

Hello goodbye
Don't you cry
We'll meet on one side
or the other . . . later.