scoey's conundrum

November p.m..
Monday night brought a couple of surprises – käse nacht (cheese night) at the Kern’s & a special tour of the Olde Gott Winery – with the local “Wine Queen” Corinna, who just happened to be a friend of Julia’s that had visited us in Reno for a few days. It was a very [...]

For some reason I woke up early; really early today – 4 a.m. Maybe it was to compensate for the sleeping in until 11:30 the day before, but for some reason I was up & ready to go. So I read. Looked at the dark, pre-dawn sky. Counted sheep. (not actual sheep… more the pretend [...]

I’ve not been able to connect to the net for a while, so if you’ve been sending me emails or notes that haven’t been returned, I’m sorry. Please bear with me – today, 10 November, Shawn & I found the “Lothar Raum” which is where we are connecting to the net via an ethernet cable. [...]

Eventually, one gets hungry on a Friday. And when one gets hungry, what does one do? One makes their way to the local REWE to do some grocery shopping.
Since we were having hamburgers, the 1st thing we need to pick out was what we’d eat them on – Alex said that the bread needs to [...]

I’ve known that my November 2009 trip to Germany was coming – months ago, when I booked my flights, I intentionally did 3 things to avoid known trouble spots:
Avoided any flight with the words “San” or “Francisco” included in it.
Put “I Heart Denver” in all my itinerary searches
Determined not to start my outbound voyage before [...]

I woke up the next morning feeling really ‘light’ in my spirit – rested too, but mostly light because I was feeling thankful that the heavy weight had been lifted off of my shoulders… a weight that I hadn’t even known I could be ‘done’ with. It was especially cool because I hadn’t even known [...]

Saturday was Roundabout day – more like mini-compressed Roundabout day – our last two meetings (11/2007 & 5/2008) have been Wednesday p.m. through Saturday noon events – where people, mostly between 20 & 30, representing many nations of Europe (approx. 10) get together for a few days of intense worship, prayer, building & making friendships, [...]

…elf is the number “11″ in German, & doesn’t refer to my favorite holiday movie, which, by the way, I’ll be digging out of the box for the yearly deluge of showings. After coming back from the conference, I spent the night at Alex & Linda’s one more time – they had a meeting of [...]

The conference wrapped up with one pastor from each region, ‘the regional leader,’ giving some prayer points for their region – North, South, West, & Middle – there’s really nothing going in the FEGW in the former East Germany – not for lack of trying over the years, but the difficulty & opposition is [...]

The last few days have been mostly good – greatly enjoyed the 2nd presenter, Michael Winkler – he’s a church strategist, but didn’t preach ‘models & methods’ – rather values, priorities, & Spirit-led life… in a way that could be understood by ME… I’m pondering all sorts of things, esp. being home, being with friends, [...]