Good day. And welcome to Day 14.

Before I begin everything, I have two announcements.

1. Check out this spot created by LAIKA in Portland. I met one of the guys that works there, when he came into the Apple Store one day. I thought this clip was a bit humorous.

2. I checked my site stats a few minutes ago and found that A%(#$ still visits my website. “Checking up” on a former lover’s website, would be like me pulling my chair over to the wall and repeatedly smashing my frontal lobe into it. Both are horribly idiotic things to do.

Once you say you’re done with someone, you should be done with them. Don’t keep checking the latest updates on them.

Anyway, here’s for the post:

The weather here is becoming more like Oregon summer weather every day. Temperatures are lowering into the 70s by day and into the low 50s by night. My kind of weather. I actually can’t wait until winter gets here.

So yesterday was a really productive day. I did very well on my job interview, and had lunch with Pastor Pace. It was really neat, especially considering his busy schedule and how we were able to meet together for a couple hours, talk about some ministry ideas such as the church newsletter and website (it’ll be online before you know it).

On my way to the job interview, I had to cross town so I figured I’d pass the time by talking to my sister from another mister (Ev, once again). We ended up having a really neat conversation and we shared with each other how the Lord is getting ready to do some cool stuff in each of us despite things we may have done to the contrary.

My conversation with Evin really got me to thinking, and I can’t remember a church that I’ve attended where the people are as transparent as they are here. In just the short two weeks I’ve been here, it’s been amazing to see how honest, frank and willing to share hurts and burdens (and blessings as well) everyone is with one another. You can’t have that level of transparency with one another and not expect the church to grow somewhat.

Fast forward to later yesterday evening, when Nick called me. Nick is the guitarist and BGVs for the worship team, and a great guy who is also leading the youth team during this session for our church. We shared some vision for the young adult ministry, and at the end he told me that I have been an answer to prayer for the church. That spoke to me as well, because I’ve been praying to belong somewhere.

And believe me, Crimson House is a huge answer to prayer for me. The people there are nothing short of amazing.

So moving on — on the docket today, I have to take care of some things in town, take some photos of the riders as they come into town today for the Tour of Missouri, and head to church where my mother is teaching the adults tonight.

Before I scramble, let me leave you with a dancey track from a Swedish DJ named Eric Prydz. It’s a remix of “Another Brick in the Wall” by Pink Floyd, titled “Proper Education.” I had it on my MySpace for awhile.

[audio:http://pages.suddenlink.net/michaelc425/pf.mp3]

Ciao.