break

Okay, for you who are checking this regularly, SORRY! It's been almost a week and a half since I last posted, right? Well, here I am again.

We've come to our mid-walk break. Actually we're over halfway through it! Last Saturday morning, a day that was predicted as 98 degrees, we walked into Washington, DC, and made it to Nate and Angela's house by 10:00. Just under the wire. Nate and Angela, friends of Paul's (he met Nate on an online discussion forum called Jesus Radicals), have just married and moved into a house where they've invited other Christians to live in community with them... and it seemed like all the other Christians they'd found had just moved in that week! I felt right at home. I've lived in a couple of communal households, and this one reminded me a lot of the last one--the Patch, the "young people's household" at Reba, where I have some good memories. I pray that the household thing works for the folks in D.C. It can be difficult living communally, and it can foster some real spiritual growth; it can also not be the best thing when you have, say, a new baby. (Actually I've never seen that done. But you can imagine.)

Anyway they gave us a wonderful welcome, and the next day I had a wonderful birthday, with a convivial blueberry-pancake supper provided by Paul, and my birthday wish: a viewing of the extended edition of The Two Towers. (We had some technical difficulties and couldn't get it started as early as we meant to, so it lasted till midnight!) And the next day Paul made his famous pizza for everybody, and I spent the day writing and watching favorite scenes from Return of the King on my borrowed laptop as breaks. Aaah.

More soon... I just realized it's a lot more important to post this NOW than fit my whole break into one post! Love you guys...