Ohh….I can hardly wait.  We leave in just about 12 hours for our trip.  I will miss my kids, but this is really exciting, and I am really excited.  Well, about as excited as I get about things.  I try not to get to excited about stuff, because I once realized that most of the stuff that I was getting excited about was the wrong thing. Like bad service, telemarketers, that kind of stuff.  And I would take out my excitement not on the cause of it, but on those around me!  That is pretty backwards.  I learned pretty quick people don’t really appreciate my ‘excitement’, so I try to take it a little easy.

Of course, this is different.  It’s a different type of excitement, so I guess I should be able to open up a little and let it show.  But years of training have kept the excitement inside.  I tell people I am excited, but my actions show…well, they show ‘me’, which isn’t all that exciting to tell the truth.  Hopefully, this conference will help me to see that it’s ok so show my excitement about God, and that it’s OK to get other people excited about God’s love and his forgiveness.

Wish me well on my trip.  I will try to write a little from California, where it will be WARM(er than Minnesota!).  Have a safe and fun week!