A Day of Decisions

Yesterday was a day of decisions. After much conversation about where we are in our life's journey we decided that now is not the time for me to be doing interim ministry work that would obligate me to be present every weekend as well as give a minimum of two other days serving in a church. As much as I love doing that and helping others, I realize I need a break and a change. A great opportunity came along to do interim work in a church I know and think highly of, but we are not in a place right now in our lives where we want to commit to that. We both agreed that it's now time to do some things we just haven't had time to do in the past and to have some fun together or to support one another in pursuing other endeavors.

As I thought about doing interims I realized that I'd much rather be a guest speaker in local Pittsburgh churches on Sunday's that would suit our schedule, rather than having to set or adjust our schedule according to a church's schedule as we have been doing for the past 37 years.

After considering what God would have us be doing now, and talking it through together, I decided to pursue some things I've wanted to try. So during our day yesterday I went to a local golf course and filled out an application to be a ranger/starter there. However, when I got home, I found an email in my inbox from the first place I filled out an application for being a started/ranger for the summer. I was asked to meet with the person in charge today after Rotary meets. That could be fun, and I'm looking to the opportunity to do something like that on a part time basis. (God is good.)

Here is a picture of Dee's progress on decorating our bedroom. She's working on the curtains for the upstairs bedrooms next. I took this picture (which is actually two pictures stitched together by the software that came with the camera.)

During the early evening we went to a "Color Seminar" sponsored by the Pittsburgh Paints and Westmoreland Supply paint store. There was a "color expert" who explained about how paints are designed and the various families of colors and how they work together. They had free appetizers including about 12 kinds of cheeses, crackers,fruit, and desserts in addition to coffee, tea and red and white wines. About 125 people showed up (they'd originally expected about 25-50, but had to expand their offering to two days of very large groups. It was well done with lots of free products, two free gallons of paint (coupons), and a wealth of info for future use. We'll go back there again as they really seem to understand how colors work. you could get consulting after the lecture if you wanted to, but we passed on that. All in all it was a good day.