Mime 4 Jesus - I Know, I Know...

Do not let anyone look down on you because you are young, but set the example for the believers in speech, in life, in love, in faith, and in purity. I Timothy 4:12

Jul. 20, 2008

I Know, I Know...

I'm overdue for an entry. I have been writing some in my personal journal, just not all stuff that can be shared on the World Wide Web. Claire's here! Hopefully I'll make time to write about that soon. We had a wonderful time together. For now, here's a bit of Thursday's news (=D):

I finished math and science (the latter of which I’m hopefully restarting next week), and I have been insufferably bored, which is incredible to me. For years, “bored” hasn’t been in my vocabulary, and now it is my constant companion. NOTHING is more aggravating than being bored and feeling that there is nothing substantial you can do. I’ve tried to help Mom out and do things that matter, but I know that I’ve not always been a good steward of the time God has given me. I think stewardship is one of the most impossible virtues to learn and practice. I’m determined to figure out something to do, though… something that matters.

In this spirit, and because we only have practice once every two weeks, I took Madison on a picnic to Round Mountain Road. We ate and talked mentorship for about an hour at a very lovely spot. See, we waded across a facet of the creek and parked on a little island. You could hear the water flowing constantly, feel the sun on your back, see the butterflies (and dragonflies) flitting all around… and except for our talking, there was no other noise. It was beautiful.

Then we put all the mentorship stuff and the picnic basket in the car, took off our accessories, and dove in. The water was wonderfully refreshing, and it was way cool to spend time one-on-one with Madison just doing nothing. We had a lot of fun, did stupid things, and laughed a lot. After swimming for perhaps an hour, we decided to go get Moriah, who had been really bummed that she had to stay home with her brothers while we went swimming. She was very glad to come with us and we swam with her for perhaps an hour and a half. Well, maybe “swam” isn’t the right verb. Moriah doesn’t know how to swim. We tried to teach her but we didn’t know how, so basically we just floated around, caught her when she started sinking, and enjoyed swirling around in the current. And now I’m brown as an Indian. I think I’m getting too tan. Anyway, it was a lovely afternoon, something that we can hopefully repeat sometime.

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