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October 27, 2003 at 9:31 pm

A few days later...

Work was good today. My first day on the job. It’s difficult to assess any sort of progress when there are no immediate results — as seems to be the case whenever my job entails getting familiar with a large-scale website that I had no part in creating — but I will have to get used to it…for a few days, at least. In the meantime, we did order me up a brand new Mac G5. I’ll have to live without it for a couple of days too.

Today came after a great, long weekend. Saturday was a full load, but we couldn’t have asked for better.

Andy Crouch (former editor of re:Generation Quarterly) was gracious enough to spend six hours at Jacob’s Well and talk to us about “the church in the midst a consumer culture.” This was more interesting and contained more information than I think I could ever express here, but if anyone would like me to post my notes, I will — just let me know.

Saturday evening, Julianna and I drove out to Odessa, MO, to take part in some fall fun with our Impact Goup. We all cooked hot dogs and s’mores around a bonfire and then went on a hay ride…er, hay-rack-ride? Well, whatever it is called, we had fun! After the ride, we sat around the fire and talked until we were tired enough to call it a night.

Sunday was spent eating lunch with our family and napping… And then back to church, where Andy gave a great sermon on the influence of consumer culture in our society — highly entertaining and highly thought-provoking.

But, all of this fun, and my first day at work today, went ignorantly on as my parents were stuck at home because of the wildfires that were (and are) blazing in Southern California. Seriously, my parents live this close to the fires. My friend Jean took this picture from the hills between Simi Valley and Thousand Oaks. I just heard that firefighters were fending off the Ronald Reagan Presidential Museum & Library from flames; that’s only one mile from my parents’ house.

I just talked to my dad, who said that they were fine. For some reason, though, my recent bonfire experience doesn’t seem quite as fun now that I think about it. My dad had to work from home today because all of the surrounding freeways were closed.

Please pray for those who are affected by this disaster. Not only are houses being lost, but the physical effects on nature and the human body are pretty serious.

As far as I can tell, this tragedy will only stop when God allows it to.

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