This End Down

This past weekend was the Jesus, Justice & Poverty Conference in Tampa, co-hosted by InterVarsity and the Tampa Underground. For some reason I’m just not coming out of the weekend with a lot to write, and the most vital parts of the weekend found me without a camera (or any other semblance of comfort, for that matter). It wasn’t a theological weekend (for me, at least–I’m sure some of the stuff was new for many of the attendees, but I’ve been around IV long enough for most of it to be stuff I’ve heard before), but rather an experiential weekend. Sleeping in the streets, with bugs crawling all over you, scared of every headlight and every pedestrian’s voice, getting rained on, sleeping on the hard ground, using a bush for a bathroom, waking with the sun, no private space, and a constant nagging awareness that you aren’t supposed to be wherever you are… yes. That, and walking around Ybor Heights all day with the glaring sun, worn-out walking shoes, not enough water (that wasn’t the conference’s fault–I lost my water bottle), having not showered or slept much the night before… those are the experiences that got me.

I assume Brian’s talks from the weekend will be up here at some point, but I really don’t know for sure.

That’s all I’ve got. You’re welcome to ask me in person, and I might have more for you. Hopefully.

For those of you who don’t yet know, my dearest most beloved mother is coming to visit Gainesville this Sunday! Hooray Huzzah! She has requested that, like the last time she was in town, we have a lunch of monstrous proportions at some local(ish) restaurant after second service at First Assembly is over. So! After second service at First Assembly we’ll all (eventually) trundle over to somewhere and everyone will get to hang out with Mommy Stauffer (and she’ll get the chance to hang out with everyone).

My first default is Sonny’s, because that’s what we did last time… so tentatively we’ll say Sonny’s on 39th. I’m open to other suggestions, but if I don’t hear any we’ll just do that. I’ll run over to Sonny’s to get us a table some time toward the end of second service, so if you’ll be able to make it, I’d love if you’d RSVP in the comments so I can get a decent numerical count. Thanks!

Today the song that has constantly popped up at just the right times has been Mute Math’s “It’s OK.” It turns itself on at the most opportune of times.

I finally finished the mentorship teaching I did for the IV student leaders. It’s 10 pages. I may put it up online.

I was trying to think of all my Disney devices. I want a list of them. This seems to be as good a device as any. Listed in chronological(ish) order.

• Desktop: Dumbo
• Dell Laptop: Nemo
• iPod Photo: Buzz Lightyear
• Phone: Wall-E
• Wii: BLT (Brave Little Toaster)
• Macbook Pro: Darkwing Duck
• PC dual boot of Macbook: Drake Mallard
• iPod shuffle: Chip
• External Hard Drive: Pumbaa
• XO Laptop: Mike Wazowski

I think that might be it (I only name things that actually need a name network-wise… so no camera, no DS Lite, etc.). I’ll update it if I can think of something else.

Matthew 6:34 (The Message)–from Leah’s post. Definitely directly related to previous discussion of faults. I’m definitely digging Matthew, and this whole Message thing is growing on me. I remember my freshman year the first couple weeks/months I went to Family Church (Richard was my ride, and he liked Family Church). We went to one of those student lunches, and there were older people there trying to connect with us. One woman said somethign about The Message, and I quickly spoke out that I thought that it was good, but for deeper study I prefered using a literal translation. She gave me quite a look. I think I came off a little harsh. I had a lot of opinions then, and not so much compassion. Oy.

Oy. And, I love my friends. I’ve never gone out with them and not enjoyed myself. Sitting in the chairs in Books-A-Million? Awesome. Not for any particular reason; certainly not the environment. But I just have good friends. I’m seriously feeling Mattgreen withdrawals, though… and on that (B.a.m.) note, MfA…B.

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