Better this week,

OK, much better this week.

We had a good ending to last week, J and I got some things worked out, and things seem much brighter. I'm not so crabby.

We're going this morning to a church in Berryville to talk about our Africa experience. We were invited by our neighbors, the "K" family. It's a youth function. The kids are fasting for 3o hours for world hunger. Pretty neat, actually. I'm nervous though. I hate public speaking. Can't not give testimony to what God did in Africa though, so I immediately agreed when we were asked, but now I'm kinda dreading it. It was supposed to be at 1o AM this morning, but then they bumped us to 1 PM. More hours to get nervous. Also, that's E's nap time, and we're taking him with us so I pray he's good, quiet, and cooperative...

Jsh and L called last night with another marital dispute. Sigh.... I know it's easier sometimes to see, analyze, and fix other people's problems, but they just seem so set on arguing, proving who's right, and just seem to not have much grace or love with each other. I know we're like that sometimes too, but it just seems like they're really struggling. Of course, if we take a snapshot of any family at a particular time, we can see all kinds of bad things. I do feel like J and I are able to help them though and that feels good. Even if we've had a bad week (like last week) it puts us back on the same team, and refocuses us on the right things too. I have a hard time sometimes in disputes with seeing both sides.... so much so that it's hard for me to mediate, and give advice. But for some reason, God really is speaking through sometimes when I'm talking with L. I feel his presence, and his wisdom coming out of my mouth. I don't say that arrogantly at all, because it's not me.

Anyway, nice to think about something else than the talk we've got to do in a few hours.