Round The Ball: Lent – 2009

It’s a lazy Saturday morning at the Prince household.  I’m sipping freshly roasted coffee from Dominican Republic.  The kids are getting a little Saturday morning cartoons action.  Pam is off to a day of meetings with our church leadership.

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This has been one of those weeks where I’m almost stunned with the amount of change I’ve had to adapt to as the week moved along.  We’re a week away from kicking off our summerXchange internships — seven teams going to seven locations to serve for forty days.  But just in the last week we’ve had an unusual amount of “turbulence” — a couple people dropping out last minute, one person jumping in at the last minute, some tense discussions about the political situation in South Africa, etc.

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Yesterday I spent nearly four hours on the phone with Tim Lockie — my ‘co-conspirator’ in San Francisco on all of the internship stuff.  One of those conversations where decisions are carefully mulled over, and then made with a fierce kind of urgency that sets so much in motion.  It’s easy to forget that these are people’s lives we’re discussing — and that small things from t-shirt sizes are right there in the mix, and just as important, as the potential risks of sending a team to South Africa right now.

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The quiet Saturday morning is welcomed.  As is the cup of coffee, the sunshine, and the promise I’ve made to myself recently to “hang it up” on Friday afternoons and leave the in-box ignored over the weekends.

It’s actually been so long that I’ve blogged that I’m not sure anyone’s paying attention anymore. But I’ve been convicted recently that I’m letting my desire for perfection get in the way of what could be (even if what could be might just be only ‘good’ or ‘okay’). I’ve got too much a writer in me who is constantly drafting, editing and ultimately filing invisible posts in my mental-blog-brain all day long . . . it’s just that they never seem to make it to the web. So maybe I’ll do better this time around.

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Incidentally, my wife’s blog has turned out to be pretty amazing. Her carefree way of posting random stories that happen in her world is actually really amazing. Her blog is a joy to read and has contributed, interestingly enough, to my want to start telling our stories again. She makes it look so easy!