I have a peaceful life. Me, Andy and two dogs. Great dogs. Potty-trained, likeable, don't-bark-in-the-middle-of-the-night dogs. But when you combine my two very pleasant pups with two more very pleasant pups life gets very interesting. Suddenly instead of two dogs following you around, there are four. Andy and I are dogsitting for a friend who has gone out of town. She has two chihuahas. I have really enjoyed watching them all encounter each other. Each of us has one dog who is laid back and cool and one dog that is a little.....well......different. (I think that maybe Joey isn't quite as different as Katie though---she is VERY different.) Anyway, Joey and Katie follow each other around everywhere. Joey is almost scared of her, like she isn't a dog or something since she is so small. He is SO curious about her. Walker does not seem to be impressed. Anyway, it is very different with four dogs than two.
Andy is starting back to school. I am excited for him. Wish I was too, but all in good time.
Read a great book last week. Blue like Jazz by Donald Miller. It was recommended to me from a myspace friend. I enjoyed it immensely. Presents faith and grace in such easily understood terms. Used some great analogies that made you really think about the Christian life. He even had the audacity to criticize the institutional church for some of its pitfalls - i.e, kicking the wounded, conditional love, biased approach towards sin - treating some sins as more "sinful" than others, etc. All of which I consider to be valid problems with the church as a whole. Don't get me wrong, I suppport the church as the body of Christ unequivically, however, we must look at church through an objective lens and continue striving to be what we are intended to be. Anyway, read Blue Like Jazz. You may think it will be heresy at first - but I promise it isn't.
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