In an effort to clean that out, I've moved them here!
Well, this last saturday it snowed in Bellingham! Weird, because it was the day we had a little sledding trip planned with INN friends. So, that morning 25 or so of us headed up to the wonderful Mt. Baker and sledded for a bit. Then we came home, Jordan and I looked at each other wondering what to do next, and realized that there was enough snow on the ground for a little more sledding! It was really a saturday full of sledding. Awesome!
While out on Cedar St. sledding on the ultimate two block sledding run, Peter joined us. We hadn’t met Peter before, but he lived somewhere on Forest, so he joined us for a bit. We enjoyed his company, and he didn’t seem to mind us, so we went up and down the hill a few times.
There seems to be something in snow that brings people together. Something that would cause a kid like Peter to come out to a hill and hang out with a weird group of students and ride down and icy hill together. What is it about the snow that makes us more willing to talk and hang out with people we don’t know?
One more week till the end of this finals business!
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What a good life!
Things are going really well right now. Small groups are settling in, and we’re getting to know each other. Kyle’s recommended me some great new books that I’m really enjoying. Mission trips were relased on tuesday and I’m in the middle of the exciting internal wrestling that comes with finding which trip I’m supposed to go on. I had a good walk with a great friend last night that was everything I could have ever asked for. There’s something fantastic about connecting with people in new ways that are unexpected and surprising every year. I still get excited thinking that if you would have told me what I would be involved in a few years ago, I would have laughed and not believed it. Not only is this exciting about the past and present, but the future too!
I’m going somewhere. I’m not sure where that will be right now, but the journey is fantastic. The future scares me a little, but I’m learning its good to be a little scared at times.
I’ve got a relaxing day ahead. Class is over, I’ve got a meeting with small group member, and then INN office for technology thursday. After that, dinner with some friends, something else, and then the office! In the words of Farrokh Safavi, “What a life!”
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Well, this week is a weird one for me. Most everyone in my class is talking about their applications to the neat public accounting jobs that they’ll be interviewing for next week. This is weird, because they’re applying for positions for next year, after we’ve graduated, after we’ve worked so hard on putting things in their correct accounting categories, after two+ years of ugly work. They’re going to do well.
The reason that this week is weird for me is that this week I won’t be applying for any jobs. Or next week, or the week after that actually. I’m not really looking for any big accounting jobs anymore, especially after my internship this summer. It wasn’t a bad internship, but I feel like I’m supposed to be somewhere else.
I’m sure it’ll be a journey, and I’ll spend the next few years of my life trying to figure out where that somewhere else will be. I hope I’ll never be satisfied, but instead always looking, hunting, and inventing new ways to serve and follow. There’s a song/prayer/poem somewhere about never being comfortable… I’ll try to find it.
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Well, now that I’m officially a blogger, here is a real post. Maybe it’ll say more than “I’m a blogger now”.
I’m about to graduate from Western Washington University with a degree in accounting. I’m struggling with a some kind of call to ministry in a more than casual capacity. I’m involved in an always changing community of students and others called the INN, which has given me a place to grow and experience Christianity for the last 2 or so years. I help at a Jr. High youth group at least once a week, which really means that I get to play games, eat gross foods, and study youth ministry under an amazing youth guy.
I have no clue where I’m going. Relient K put it best for me when they sang “even though, there’s no way in knowing where to go, promise I’m going”. I’ve got no clue what’s next and I’m being taught to be alright with that sometimes. I’m Stead Halstead, and this is a glimpse into my life!
