Fragments from the last couple days

Friday night LA Street Production had it's first monthly meeting. We among other things decided to give $100.00 to a teacher who has been influential in some of our lives to help her buy more art supplies for other students. We also had two visitors who might join the group. Chris (Wil's brother in-law who is looking for a group of men to grow with as a person), and Nate (Rikkell's freind from Mosaic... who is interested in animation and has just been accepted into an art school). We all acknowledged that this last year was a tough year for us and expressed our grattitude for the friendships in the group through it all. We have also begun planning for the year 2004

HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ONE AND ALL!!!

Friday night picked Rikkell up at the airport... and went with her and Nate to 24 hour Toffu House (Think Denny's except that all the food is Korean). Good food and good fellowship. All our apprentices are back in the mix from the holidays...

Saturday was a weird day. It started out with a large cockroach hanging on to our shower head being caught by a circle of water streaming out... The day ended with our block being taped off by the police for a reason that none of the neighbors seem to know. The police set up a temporary road block and stood around with semi-automatic weapons...this tends to make one not feel so comfortable and yet is so unbelievable that it feels like a movie set -- so all the neighbors come out to talk and watch. One poor drunk man tried to drive slowly through the barricade. He just was too drunk to get the fact that he couldn't go this way...and so he was arrested infront of our watching neighborhood. Nothing was normal about Saturday.

Sunday, Rikkell and Norma came to church with me. Marlene needed a ride after church. This led to the kind of traffic that you only find in LA where you can have traffic jams at any time of day almost anywhere. We took Norma home and picked up Rikkell's Bearded Dragon. (The kids in the neighborhood love this little beast.)

Sunday after church I hung out with two of the youth for a few hours. One of them is going to move to go live with his dad... which I think will be a good thing for him. He was on the edge of the local gang and this might keep him from choosing that path. He likes his dad and wants to be a cook like his dad... I am glad that he will be going to live with his role model... every young man needs a father.

Now it is Monday morning... and I am going to work on catching up on my Bible reading... I plan to read through the Bible in about a year -- our church has set up a web based network to encourage us to do this... Then I plan to spend some time praying...and so it goes... I have my first scheuled meeting at lunch time... and so it goes.