Exhausting Week

So this week I'm helping out with my church's Vacation Bible School! After shepherding sixteen to eighteen kids five-year-olds around every morning, I'm pretty worn out by the afternoon, but I have Responsibilities in the afternoons anyway. Sometimes they even get done...

The kids are adorable, though sometimes they get in fights and a few had trouble adjusting to what we were supposed to be doing for the first few days. VBS closing is tomorrow (it's gone so fast!), and thus we wrap up a fun week.

Maybe I should focus on the wisdom that I pick up from the little church rituals that I didn't quite understand when I was five myself. Like what "This Little Light of Mine" actually means, which I hadn't really thought about in years... until now.

Take this light around the world, I'm gonna let it shine

Take this light around the world, I'm gonna let it shine

Take this light around the world, I'm gonna let it shine

Let it shine, let it shine, let it shine

Take it around the world? In some ways, even though I never thought of it that way before, that's what I've been doing in making online friends around the world. I get to have deep conversations with people I might never have met otherwise, and I learn something from them, and they learn something from me.

I feel lucky now.

The Problem with Taking Up Biking Again

So I had a really deep post planned, but then I went for a bike ride with my brother. I had the idea that I'd ride around the block a few times like I used to when I was little; he had the idea that we should ride to church. Unfortunately, he also had the idea that he should disassemble my bike's gearshift as part of the "maintenance" stuff, and then we couldn't figure out how to put it all the way back together again...

Long story short, the bike started changing gears at the worst possible times about a mile out, and I overworked myself getting back home. Still got a headache. Deep and thoughtful posts about meaningful stuff will have to be delayed.