I need some sleep!

This weekend was crazy! Let's start with Friday. I went to see the new F9/11 movie in Lafayette Indiana (I'm surprised they got a showing). I thought it was a very entertaining and well directed documentary. An emotional roller coster. Weeping (with real tears) one moment, laughing out loud the next, and anger the next, then laughing, etc. I would suggest everyone go and see it and join the social/economic process no matter what your view is about the authenticity of the facts in the movie. Be active and stay active! One drawback of the movie was I didn't get back home to Rensselaer until about 11:30pm. Now, that really wouldn't have been a problem if I didn't have to get up on Saturday @ 3:00 and drive Josh to the airport. He went to San Francisco on a student developers scholarship for the Mac Developers conference. So I go straight to bed and set the alarm to wake me up. I am to wake Josh up. I go to sleep. The next thing I know it's 5:30am! I have no clue what happened! I even went so far as to change the time of the alarm wake-up to one minute after 5:30 and it went off... The only thing I can imagine it could have been was I slept through the alarm. So I wake up Josh and we are running around a tizzy. Josh calls the airline (his flight leaves @ 6:48am and we are 1.5-2 hours away from the airport) they tell him he can go on stand-by for the next flight @ 8:50am). We leave for Midway airport and get their in 1 hour and 15 min. Josh checks in and makes the flight... BUT I have to leave before he boards the flight. I have to be back in Rensselaer for the Ordination of Jeffery Kirch. I leave Midway and head straight home. I get home, comb my hair, and leave for the Chapel. I think I'll blog on the Ordination process some other day... but this particular ordination (I've only seen this one so I don't want to judge them all) was very much a celebration of men and what old white men do and not a celebration of community and God's involvement in each and everyone one of our lives. Next on the plate was the Taste of Rensselaer but before that I went home with my Friend from College (Stephen) who was visiting and we sat down started talking and fell asleep in our chairs for like 3 hours. Maura, Stephen, and I went to the Taste of Rensselaer and had dinner and walked around a bit. It wasn't much to speak about. We went back to my house and make a fire and sat around and caught up with each other. The problem is... I had a sermon on Sunday... and I hadn't re-worked it yet. So I left them and started working on the Sermon. Sodom and Ga..What? God's vision of Hospitality. I finished about 12:00am and then was convinced to watch a movie with Maura and Stephen. Bless the Child... my God what a horrid movie. The acting was the worst. I get to bed around 2:00am and wake up at 6:15am (with the alarm). I have a strange feeling (Jesus?) my opening for the sermon is too inflamitory and so I re-write it and print out all 7 pages of it. I get to church give the sermon and only two people come up to me and say they loved it and the sermon was very much needed for the community. No one else talks to me . Hopefully they are contemplating the strong disconnect between offering hospitality to every person, every living creature in all of creation and for what western civilization stands (i.e. conquest, imperialism, distrust, fear, scarcity, etc.). Right from church I drive Stephen back to Indianapolis (2 hours each way). When I get home I plan on packing for the move and a whole bunch of other stuff I need to do but I fall asleep at about 1:30 and don't wake up until about 4:00pm. Maura came over while I was napping to do some laundry and when I woke up we ordered a pizza. Then I played some video games (Final Fantasy IX, I just beat VII, sorry phil VIII isn't that good).

Here it is Monday and I wonder why I am tired.