I am a meteorologist and a former youth leader at church…I have a lot to say on both subjects…and then some
I thought that maybe Mary touched on this, but I looked on her personal blog and she hasn’t yet. I know that she has talked about our church and the problems we have had with getting into the new part of the building. Well that took a new twist this last week when the bank out of the blue, the bank foreclosed on the church and gave us 6 months to get out.
I say out of the blue, because, we were ahead in the mortgage payments, had paid off all of the contractors with our capital campaign last year, and were working with them to redo the original loan. The reason that we were redoing the loan, was that the type of mortgage we had, meant that we had to be in the new building after a year. Of course, we couldn’t do that, due to the design flaw that wasn’t discovered until a few weeks before we were supposed to inhabit the new part of the building.
A lot has been happening this week at the church due to this, most of it sounds positive, so I won’t speculate on what we could see in the next 6 months. In fact I don’t think that it is that important right now. However, as I was listening to the Lifespring Family Bible podcast, which is reading through the Bible in a year. The last couple of days was on the book of Ezra. This is the book during the Babylonian exile that the Jews were given permission to rebuild the temple in Jerusalem. A new king told them to stop, then they were given permission to build again. As I listened, it seemed like it was a promise, that we too, will be able to to fix the building and continue.
I got some new music recently. Of course, with my taste in music, it is heavy. One is the latest P.O.D. album, “When Angels and Serpents Dance.” I’ve heard good reviews about it and the 30 sec portions on iTunes were hopeful. I have to say that this album is better than the last two. My favorite of theirs is still “Fundamental Elements of Southtown,” followed by “Satellite.” I think that this will be in heavy rotation for awhile on my Nano.
The other one is Skillet’s “Comatose.” Haven’t listened to it yet, but what I have heard in concert and at youth group, I like.
