Loooooong Weekend

So this was a long weekend. Unfortunately not a long in time weekend, just a long in tiring weekend...

Friday night was SMBC's Steps in Faith Kid's Night Out Sleep-Over, which was just as tiring as the name implies. It was a lot of fun, though. I'd never helped with a Kid's Night Out before so I had no idea what to expect. Okay, that's not entirely true. I knew the night was going to be filled with about 40 kindergarten-5th graders and minimal adult supervision, which you can imagine implies a type of organized chaos. But it was good. Dolores has a real gift for children's ministry. We learned about what it meant to be a Baptist and what it meant to be a member of SMBC and what it meant to be a Christian. Turns out a good analogy to being a Christian is being a well-trained labrador retriever. Well, that's probably too simplistic- but it made sense at the time. We worshipped with the youth who were having a lock-in as well, and no one went to bed before 2 am (and then woke up @ 7 am). Most exciting- I learned the ASL gesture for the Holy Trinity. I got uber excited and had the Greek running through my head and Amy (our minister to Adults) laughed and said I was a true seminary nerd. :-)

Steve came to talk about being a Christian and used his dog Daisy as an example of an obedient helper (see, the analogy does make some sense). Afterwards we talked about Truett. It's amazing that he knows all of my professors, except of course my theology professor. Morning came too soon and then I went home and slept for about 5 hours.

I had the chance to go over and see the new additions to the house. Hopefully it will be ready (weather pending) around Christmas. Jack and I had dinner, just the 2 of us, which was nice and I got to see Gillian and Patrick.

And then before I made the trek back to Waco, we went to see Capitalism. As if I didn't need anymore reason to hate the economy/ government. It makes me physically ill to know that 1% of Americans control 95% of the wealth in America (and then apply roughly those same values to the global economy) and that that 1% basically controls the government as well and therefore pays minimal taxes (not minimal in the sense that its low, but minimal in regards that any lesser value would be even more morally reprehensible). I really pray that we move to socialism. I don't put any hope in the government to do this, but only in the surge of power capable of change that rests in the marginalized- in the poor, the sick, the young, those that work at a minimum wage that still leaves them below the poverty level. Who thought that a minimum wage that keeps a person under the poverty level was a minimum wage? How do we still sell the "American Dream" when it's not obtainable unless you are incredibly lucky or come from at least a middle class family that can support you enough to get through school?