Whew!  Pam and I are home after a long day of ministry.  Not that it was bad, but long.  Most of you are aware that we have this thing called Mosaic Student Ministries.  We rotate the assignments among those who have volunteered to help.  There are at least three ways to serve as an adult in Mosaic:

• Drive the church van or your vehicle to pick up and drop off students
• Teach elementary, middle school, or high school
• Cook the evening meal/snack

Tonight was not only Pam and my turn to drive the van (I drive, Pam supervises) but also to cook (we were planning pancakes and bacon.)  Mosaic is unique in that most of our students do not have their own transportation and use ours.  It makes for some interesting evenings.  Tonight was no exception.  Let’s put it this way, we left the church at 5:25 PM and got back at 6:50 PM, about 20 minutes late, so we had to improvise without going too late and still get everything done.  The short story is everything worked out (it’s nice to have a plan, even when it doesn’t work and needs to be changed.)  At 7:40 PM, we piled the students back in the van for the homeward bound trip, finally at 9:30 PM, we arrived back at home, slowed in part to a vigorous snow squall that quickly dumped about an 1 to 2 inches of snow.  We were unaware they were even calling for snow.  Thank you Lord for your traveling mercies.  Interesting that the National Weather Service didn’t issue an advisory until 9:00 PM.

 We had a good time with the students tonight.  Once the rowdier students were off the van, we had some great conversation.  The relationships with our students are growing deeper each week, which is such a cool thing.  Mosaic has really lit a fire in my soul lately and in part because it seems like our students are wanting to grow spiritually.  The students ate up the pancakes and bacon so, on our way home I stopped at Hardee’s for supper.  We had one student left on the van, so we treated her to a snack.  We try to do that occasionally, making sure we rotate the students we take out.

Pam and I celebrated our 21st wedding anniversary with lunch at the Runway Cafe.  It is a little restaurant at the local airport.  Mosaic and our little celebration were part of the highs.  We continue on this roller coaster emotional ride of late.  Pam’s mom has been struggling physically.  If fact, we are still waiting as I write for some results. 

Like I said, “What a day!”  The great thing is that God was with us throughout the day.  I am in awe of His presence day by day by day.  Carp Diem!