dear caro,

I ventured out tonight for various reasons to the local bookstore and coffee joint, pandemonium. this is sort of a long and domino effect story so let me see where to begin.  there’s lots of things i need to do on our cute little silver Powerbook G4 but it’s  been a little messed up. I think the problem is that I am as organized and clean electronically as I am at home. You know what I mean, right? I just keep stuffing photos on iPhoto and files here and there and everywhere until the computer is just plain fed up. It lets me know by a sweet little box with the message, “YOUR STARTUP DISK IS FULL!” and just generally being grouchy. So, I’ve tried to no avail to fix this a couple of times, but I just don’t have the fight and stamina in me to really figure it out and so I give up. Only, right now, there are lots of things I really need this thing for. Not to mention I’ve quit using my really nice camera because I don’t want to deal with the computer issue, no more room for photos and no internet at home to send them in emails and wait for grandparents’ sweet responses anyway.

So here I am at Pandemonium mostly because my dear friend Sarah asked me to speak at MOPS (next Wednesday). Well, sort of. She admitted she was thinking of asking me or this other lady and I acted a little interested. And I got really convicted and I decided to tell her yes before I changed my mind. And since then I’ve wavered a lot but that’s neither here nor there. It’s too late to back out now and I’m not sure I would if given the chance even though talking to this group of 50 peers and mentor moms for 20 minutes scares the mess out of me. It also excites me to be given this great opportunity to share my heart for the Lord with these ladies. A real chance to present the gospel. My topic starter is “cause and effect” because this year’s MOPS theme has been “The art and science of mothering!” I have some good ideas but need to put them together. That’s my goal tonight, to have a great basic message to pick at over the next week.

So far, I’ve browsed the books, drank a latte, and am watching thousands of pictures make their way to the external hard drive. I hope this works! I’m gonna go get down to my real reason for being here –  to figure out details for my message! Pray that I speak the truth in love and that God is glorified in this, it will definitely be all Him because I don’t have it in me!

Later,

Kristy

PS- I hope you’re making progress on the book – I LOVE that it’s comprised of letters and the time period in history!

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