Yeah... me... in Haiti... in only 3 weeks from now... WHAT?!

Dana and I were planning to be in Texas visiting her family for vacation from February 9-17. It was going to be a great time to introduce Hannah to all our friends in Texas, where we met, dated, got married, and spent the first 6 months of marriage. I was excited about it! I have the time off from church, airfare is purchased, everything is ready to go.

And then earlier this week I got an email from a friend who asked me if I'd be interested in going to Haiti during that time. I talked with Dana about it and we were both kinda like, "Umm, no, we already have plans." I couldn't admit to this person that it was actually vacation, so I beat around the bush a bit.

But as this week went on I was thinking, "Dude, Tim, how self-centered could you possibly be? You have a possible opportunity to go serve people who are in desperate need, and instead you're going to go on vacation?!" Matthew 25 kept coming to mind, "Whatever you do for the least of these, you do it for me." And James, "If anyone knows the good he ought to do and doesn't do it, sins." (That's the downside of memorizing scripture -- the Holy Spirit uses it to convict you.)

Whether or not I'll actually get to all this is yet to be determined, but if I had it my way, here's what I'd like to get done this weekend.

• Move the YM Mentorship info to it's own site.
• Publish the audio from last week's LIVE YM Talk.
• Reply to a bunch of emails.
• Create a 30 second LISM overview/intro video for Brian Ford.
• Completely erase my iMac and do a clean install of Snow Leopard. Gotta get all my programs reinstalled and setup, too.
• Possibly purchase Photoshop CS4 and/or After Effects CS4, or use the trials again after reinstalling Snow Leopard (is that honest?).
• Call one of the YM Mentors to get 3rd party advice on a ministry situation.
• Have kids over to play Xbox on Saturday (except so far it looks like most people are off hunting, so maybe next weekend).
• Go on a bike ride.
• Change a toilet seat in the house.
• Clean the house.
• Finish preparing for our church's interactive Immerse Worship Experience this Sunday evening.
• Call someone about joining our youth ministry mentorship team.

I'll come back and update this list as I complete each task.

He was chattering like crazy until I hit record on my iMac. Then she gave a little smile and quickly switched to fussy mode. Oh well.

Every morning Hannah wakes up crying for food. It's no wonder because she usually goes 6 to 8 hours without eating during the night when usually she only goes every 2 to 3 hours between meals during the day. So when she wakes up screaming, demanding food, it reminds me of 1 Peter 2:2-3:

Like newborn babies, you must crave pure spiritual milk so that you will grow into a full experience of salvation. Cry out for this nourishment,now that you have had a taste of the Lord's kindness.

My desire for the Lord and His Word should be more intense than Hannah's desire for milk in the morning.

Yeah, ya gotta read it backwards, thanks to my iMac's iSight cam. I didn't feel like flipping it.