the wind and the clouds, they led goldilocks all the way home

this weekend i got to go to chico to visit my way groovy friend cas.  some observations:

• cool people roadtrip with the windows down....but are also conscious of the ever present danger of awkward one-sided arm tanning
• 20 minutes out of here, the sun shines
• i love the prairies of california....long, yellow grass with random fat green trees against a bright blue sky
• redding makes up for it's confusing atmosphere with awesome people who lead you to the I-5
• trader joe's is a magical land flowing with dried mangos and cool water bottles
• californians refuse to make eye-contact with people walking towards them
• chico has more bicyclists than i have ever seen....and has a great park
• watching hot rod with cas is quite possibly the best thing you could possibly do with an afternoon
  

i had a great time!  thanks cas!

a prayer request

so at church for the last two weeks, these two young guys have been coming.  my dad was saying that they came from a teen drug rehab house or something like that.  anyway, both of them are really fired up about the Lord and it's been so cool to see them just in love with God's Word and hear about the questions they ask my dad about their faith; especially when it seems like a lot of the people at our church have been Christians for a while.  one of them apparently used to sniff glue and so his mind is pretty far gone.  i'd just like ya'll to pray for him, that God would just restore his mind.   me and my mom both feel like God wants to do that work in his life.  anyway, and for both of them that they would be built up in Christ....and probably that we as a church would be enabled to reach out to these guys.  i don't know....i could just totally see guys like this five years from now with families...and going to teach at the mission and starting new ministries and stuff like that.  cool beans

a dream of mine

sell my car and get a VW bug....or scooter....the dream is somewhat undecided