Getting Away

Lately the best metaphor I can seem to come up with for the state of my life is...."a blender".  I feel like there are so many things just all thrown in and spinning around and I'm just running back and forth trying to catch up with them all.  By my own nature, this time in my life is not when I would choose to take a break.  I tend to internalize, to have a need to have things under control, basically, to hyperventilate.  So, when Rodney told me that he and Pastor Kevin were going to ride in this 100k bike deal called Tulsa Tough and that the two of our families were going to make a weekend of it, I kind of thought the timing was a bit strange.  Here we are getting ready to leave for a week of youth camp on Monday morning and we have our True Love Waits service tomorrow night among other things such as my work and just regular life stuff.  However, I just threw caution to the wind and went along with the crowd this time.  I have to say that although we do have a lot to do before Monday morning...it was totally worth it.  It was great to spend quality time with Kierstyn since we will be away from her all week.  It was great to get away from all the chaos of life and work, it was just good to get away.  The picture I posted here with this blog is of Pastor Kevin. We were at Academy, a sporting goods store, when he apparently found this punctured hairy ball deal and decided to wear it as a hat.  He looked so good in it the store donated it to cover his "lack of hair".  Needless to say it represented the theme of our short weekend away well.  The moral of the story:  Life never stops.  It never will.  So, sometimes you just have to stick your foot out and stop it yourself and get away.