8/10/08
Once Around

-Travels to Paraguay
Saw death the first 3 days
Visited congregation

-discussed how faith was passed down, noticed difference between own family with strong faith background, yet seem less tolerant. Other families who were less outwardly religious who were very open

-Simon Bolivar great leader dreamed of uniting the Hispanic countries but very expensive.

-Very nice to have sister/sister-in-law

-New job, principal, working at Keeping the door open to the office, enjoying building team and getting the school year started

-Working with Merit and seeing students working for the family
There are strong feelings about immigration and impact on employment

-irritated with Bush's comments at the olympics

-reconcile desire to be apart of Church service yet working with scripture as literal

-sermon had a good ending about not needing to be perfect

-dream where speaker at a church was offensive and 1/3 of the congregation left

-Conversation about voting, person taking part of socialized medicine in one state, but not connecting with the democratic push to socialize medicine

-wondered about baptism- actually a custom for Jews to baptize Gentiles but it Was new to baptize Jews. John essentially excommunicated the whole Jewish community with this act.

-taking son to Riley, could be allergies. But has been going on so long.
-how do we share thoughts about our faith, without shutting the doors to each other, many feel that their faith is right, not recognizing that faith is formed
-feel that an academic pastor could bridge gaps