The Heathen car apparently does not like sunny Sunday afternoons. 2 Weeks ago we cheerfully set out for small group when the car didn't start. We tried everything we could think of...but nothing. So we had it towed to the mechanic and they fixed the starter contacts.
It made it to Ohio and back for Mother's Day Weekend/Anniversary, and was JUST FINE.
We went to church this morning and heard another fabulous sermon, from which i will be adding to my favorite quotes "Humility earns a hearing" (referencing Daniel and his politic self of Daniel 1) We had a yummy lunch with our engaged friends and Jason who is back in town. We finally decided to head back home, and lo and behold. The Camry won't start. In fact, it adds to the glory of not starting by having the "defunct" alarm system announcing to us and the world around that it will not start. Thankfully, we chose to have lunch at a restuarant within a reasonable exercise of walking distance from home. So Josh and I walk back, get the 4RUnner, try to jump the car and other things and are giving up on it and will get it back to the mechanic tomorrow. All this is especially cheery as I have to be in Iowa City for a temp scoring job again tomorrow by 8:30 so he'll have to deal with the car tomorrow morning rather than me taking a day off from subbing to deal with it. So we've decided the Camry is a heathen car that is attempting to prevent us from doing more than going to church on Sunday mornings.
Friday was an interesting day of subbing. I had 2 very obnoxious classes--one of which I had to leave a half page note on and march a kid to the principal's office. On the other hand, one of the good classes had another teacher who is long-term subbing and she came by later and was a gift of encouragement to me. She was very impressed by how well I read the class and managed them and also in my teaching. The irony is that the class she saw me teach was an American History class (7th grade basics). So even as I've been very grumbly and frustrated with my hunt for a job that uses my degree, and I prayed as much Friday morning-- I was blessed with some encouragement later.
BSF has last session this coming Tuesday and it has been a good year of learning and growing for me studying the life of Moses. I am so very excited for next year as we'll be going through the book of John!!!!! and I'll also mostly like be a children's leader so that really adds to the growth and learning factor.
Well, I need to be off pretty quick here for a tutoring job I have this afternoon. (Test Prep season is back in session until June 13th test day) I hope to be able to put some more thoughts into writing about this morning's sermon and also about BSF. We'll see...it's going to be another busy week and we need to get the house (mostly downstairs) cleaned up a bit before having guests for Memorial Day weekend.
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