One of the things we lead our Discovery Bible study is the question, “What is stressing you out? and what are you thankful for?” It is a proto prayer for our non-believers and a prompt for prayer for our believers. Well this is a week where there are a few things stressing me out. I’m leading a training tomorrow (Saturday) that I don’t feel all that ready for. I am taking Jonathan to a Faith and Science seminar http://vibrantdance.org/ all next week in Austin as a way to build up my apologetics skill but even more important to help him to see that intelligent men can believe in Jesus.

• We went on a regional staff retreat in St. Louis. I was challenged by several talks about putting borders in different areas of your life. The most challenging is making sure I get enough sleep. I believe this was a God-send. (it’s 1:30AM… maybe I still need some work.) I did get a lot of needed rest though during the retreat and learned a lot from others who do international student ministry in our region.
• Our family celebrated our “reward” for each of us completing 50 hours of exercise this summer with a night a Great Wolf Lodge. This was a way to keep our kids (and us) active when school was out.