weekend update

I'm finally starting to feel normal again, after a somewhat rough weekend. Lauren and I both woke up Friday morning complaining of cold symptoms, yet we still picked up a storage building from a certain orange home improvement store that evening. Somehow our new home is already overflowing with clutter (and it's only going to get worse). So, Saturday my husbandly duty was to erect said structure. I knew going into it that the 90 minutes for assembly that the manual estimated was by no means reasonable. All told, I think it was more like twice that. It's pretty nice, though. Around 3pm I took a lunch/coffee break to go meet Clifford at Jason's Deli. It was good to catch up with him for the first time since the wedding. Later that night, I was putting the final screws on the building with my handy (if not geekifyng) headlamp.

Sunday was pretty much the normal schedule - church, nap, AWANA. JD started a new series called "Anthem" which asked some really stirring questions about your relationship with God. However, I'm convinced that a shockingly different take on a relationship with God is the only thing that will move a non-believer past the point of prejudice against the "religion" laden culture so prominent here in the south. In other words, if it's not dramatically different, it's not going to win any souls. We can't afford to be disregarded as just another notch in the Bible belt.

Oh, in a bit of tech news, iPhone + Gmail users are in for a treat! Relief from an inbox burdened with sent mail comes in the form of IMAP for Gmail. You'll have to manually configure your iPhone instead of choosing the default Gmail config. This video shows you how. I guess it's actually good news for anybody who uses anything other than the default web interface to check their gmail account.

Time to get back to work. Pray for me - there's a meeting at church tonight about the future of the Deacons ministry - and I'm invited! Apparently, those attending are being asked to decide if this is a ministry where they can serve. I think that means that somebody thought of me as a candidate. Maybe I'll get there and find out every dude in church was invited. In any case, it's very humbling. I'm praying that God will put pride far from my heart and humble me with this challenge. I hope to see only His plans for me in this, and not my own reputation.