Effable

Ef´fa`ble

a.

1.

Capable of being uttered or explained; utterable.

This is something new I am going to try. I found a website that is a Random Word Generator. Everyonce in a while, I will post the definition of the new vocabulary word and try to use the word at least 3 times in my post. So here it goes.....Effable!

LOTS going on! School starts on Monday and I am excited, but a little nervous. I met over 1/2 of my class on Thursday night. (Usually I only have like 4 kids show up, so this was a good sign to have 13 show up!) They seem like sweet kids that are excited to start school. I'm nervous about this new curriculum that we are starting this year. It will eventually be a really good thing for me and my students, but it is really going to stink this year learning and implementing it. It is a VERY in depth/time consuming thing to start! We'll see how it goes.

The youth ministry is rolling along! Loving it more and more everyday. But at the same time my heart gets heavier and heavier for these youth the closer I get to them. The more I get to know them and spend time with them and talk with them I see how very very broken and lost some of these students are. There are some that seem to slightly care and want to change. But then there are some that think they are just fine or know they are screwed up, but think its funny instead. That breaks my heart. But all in all, things are going good. We had our new 7th graders move up and that was exciting! We had Mess Fest (our back to school party) last Wednesday and the kids had a BLAST! It was so fun to watch....and even get ambushed a little. I got "floured" by some youth. Jeff got it worse though. He got "pizza faced" by one of our new 7th graders (probably a sign of things to come from that particular student! ha!). And then Jeff got body slammed into a pool of wet cheetos and tomato sauce. Gross! It was fun though. We have our D-Now coming up and I am SO excited! It is community wide (about 5 other churches join in). And our church is hosting it. We are getting a band, we are using the curriculum "Remedy" that my friend, Mary, wrote! She is awesome. She has this talent to make a lesson effable for youth! And Daniel is speaking all weekend. Very excited about all of that. Jeff designed the logo for the weekend that will also go on our T-shirts. He did a great job. Check out the logo here...

You can be the remedy

Colin is growing ALL the time. He is getting so tall! And his baby features are slowly going away. He has that "big boy" face now! We are working on talking in longer sentences. He can no longer just say, "Milk!" He has to say, "I want more milk please." He's really good at it, he just forgets to talk that way. I guess you could say I am teaching him to be more effable. He can say his ABC's, count to 10, and tell us all his body parts! We will probably start working on his colors and recognizing the letters of the alphabet in isolation. He starts his MDO program on Sept. 3. He will only go on Thursdays for now. Next Thursday will be his "Meet the Teacher" night. I am excited about that! He is such a sweet boy and I find such joy in watching him grow up!

We still have some things to call about/find out about. But we are hoping to buy the rest of the land behind our house pretty soon! We will probably be able to buy all the way back to the railroad track which should give us a total of almost an acre. Our neighbors are acting interested in selling us the portion behind their house as well. Which would be AWESOME! because that would be 1 and1/2 to 2 acres. But I don't think we would be able to afford that. But hey, I can dream, right?

I am never unamazed at how good God is. It is sometimes uneffable. I can't even put it into words. He provides for us all the time. There are months that I wonder how we are going to afford groceries until the next paycheck or where I am praying that Colin isn't sick because I can't afford to take him to the doctor! But we have NEVER been without the things we need. Sometimes I find myself being without things I WANT. But even then, I am finding that the things I want are changing to match just what I need. I need some food, and some electricity and water. I need gas in the cars. I need my boys and the rest of my family. I need my friends. And most importantly I need my relationship with Christ! I couldn't want anything else!

You gave me life and showed me kindness, and in your providence watched over my spirit. Job 10:12