The most ridiculous...

My itinerary for tonight is the most ridiculous thing I think I've ever booked...so here goes. I wanted to save some money and my Thursday, and I had a report due today...so that rules out all flights that depart and arrive at a reasonable hour...

If I left in the morning I would lose all of Thursday, if I tried to leave at a reasonable hour tonight I might not get all of my work done.

SO, here's my solution...at 9:30pm I'm flying to Boston, where I will sleep...not sure where, perhaps on a park bench with a newspaper...not sure. At 5:00am I board a plane for Charlotte followed be a plane to Savannah where I will arrive by 8:47 am...which gives me all day to read and lay in the SUN!!! This seemed like a much better idea when I booked the flight...oh I well I guess I'll embrace my inner homelessness!

Mellow Mushroom Addiction

Caroline did a bad bad thing to me...she got me addicted to Mellow Mushroom quite a few years ago. It was in the early 2000's, not really sure how to say that properly...but she took me there for the very first time and I fell in love with the pretzels, special sauce and that awesome crust...

So my obsession has turned to great excitement whenever I see a Mellow Mushroom and it seems that there is now one on one of my favorite islands in the country, HILTON HEAD...so long story short Thursday morning I will be at Mellow Mushroom, I think it will make a divine breakfast.

Even better, I just found out today that they will overnight pizza to what they call "remote locations" like Chicago!!! Pizza Party - party of 1!

BOOM....Body of One Messiah!

The SLAM year is about to start and we are team BOOM, Body of One Messiah! I am super excited for this year of SLAM, to meet the kids and really get to know a few of them well. We went out into Cabrini last night to make sure the kids all knew it started next Monday and had a truly blessed evening. EJ (Evangelist James)was our guide and he took us through his old and our new stomping ground. During our time in the row houses we talked with a few adults who just happened to be having a meeting of the Cabrini Governing Body - woo hoo, praise the Lord, they asked us in to tell them about SLAM and how they could partner with us!

We also stopped by to see Dorkus, her mom and miscellaneous nieces who were over at their place in the reds. Her mom Pam is such an amazing woman of faith and I just love talking to her. We met over the summer, watching baseball talking about SLAM and she remembered me...how fun! One of the little ones at her place was Tank, she is just cute as can be. A tiny little thing who dances with such enthusiasm, some of her dance moves would be questionable for a teenager or adult but Pam is working on stopping that.

Please pray for our team and all the volunteers and staff of SLAM. There will be challenges and celebrations this SLAM year and we could use prayer for all of them. Please also lift up the nearly 200 kids we expect to have in the program as well as the kids that are not there. Pray that they would find peace in Cabrini and in Chicago through Christ.

If you want to learn more about SLAM and GRIP the broader organization go to www.gripyouth.com