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So I haven't blogged in a while. The break was nice and necessary. I did manage to send out an email or two during that time to keep some people updated with life here in Louisville. Things are definitely interesting...thus the blog returns. I enjoying blogging. And so I blog.

I can update you on some Cambodia news. There is a more than good chance that Cambodia, as of right now, won't be our future destination. This has been tough to swallow as Alexis and I love that country and those people. I'm not sure that we'll ever be able to confidently say that our hearts ever completely left that country. I pray that one day God will allow us to serve and love those people. We heard about some of the restructuring a few weeks ago. Rumbles and speculation. While nothing was certain this did give us time to consider life in another part of the world and God used this time to open our hearts to His work in other countries. So while we are both saddened by these turn of events, we cannot see this as a negative. Our job is to go where He leads even if that doesn't look the way we want it to.

This doesn't mean that Cambodia is never going to happen. It does mean that our path there may not be as straight as we imagined.

All in all, God is sovereign and our lives are not our own.

I'm sitting in my New Testament class. Dr. Cook is teaching. He is the pastor of 9th and O here in Louisville. I've only been in the class for a few hours and I can tell that I'm going to regret taking this class in such a fast paced, information over-load fashion. I'm loving this stuff and can only hope that I don't miss stuff. He's a good professor.

I've not yet recovered from my health issue. It seems to be the most stubborn health issue ever invented. I've been on antibiotics for almost a month now and the pain isn't gone. I'm not sure what the next step is beyond antibiotics. I'll be calling my doc soon enough.

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Work is good. Sherry fell and quite literally broke her face. It is a long story. Suffice it to say that she fell in a parking lot and smacked her face on a curb. She came back to work and kept telling people that she "had a fight with a black top" and just to make it interesting, as the customers made their way to me to receive their drinks, I would inform them that "the term BLACK TOP is actually Sherry-slang for gang member." This spiced things up a little. Also, Ginny's apartment was the victim of a poorly discarded cigarette. Her apartment caught fire thanks to the smoking man below them. Ginny and her husband lost everything. I didn't need to spice this one up.

Well thats life at the moment. I probably won't be blogging as much as I did. Nor will I blog constantly about random political issues. the new and improved blog will not be more of the same...I don't think.