I feel special :0)

Oh my goodness. I just got off the phone with Lori! She called me all the way from Guatemala. I have news updates for you all. The team is building a house and Lori says it's a whole lot of fun. Especially making cement. She wanted me to know that Kenley caught a turkey. They were laying the foundation of the house and a turkey ran though it. So Kenley wrestled with it, cuz it got kind of stuck and then it pooped right in the cement. Darn turkey. But it made my day. Now whenever I feel sad I'll just think of Kenley wrestling a turkey in cement. I can't wait to see the pictures from that. :0) Lori says they make little "volcanoes" of cement and then pour water on them and so her and Mr. Scott sing the Volcano Song when they do it. (It's on the new Caedmon's Call CD, which you should all buy, because it's awesome. It's called Share the Well.) Anyway, Lauren and Deb, I told Lori you said hi. She was very excited.
On to other news. In Bible Study tonight we read Acts chapter 6, which is a pretty short chapter, for Acts anyways. It was so funny because lately we'd been talking about how great the Church was back then and how there was no fighting and arguing...at least until chapter six. That's where it ended. So, here's the story from the Message Bible:

During this time, as the disciples were increasing in numbers by leaps and bounds, hard feelings developed among the Greek-speaking believers--"Hellenists"-toward the Hebrew-speaking believers because their widows were being discriminated against in the daily food lines. So the Twelve called a meeting of the disciples. They said, "It wouldn't be right for us to abandon our responsibilities for preaching and teaching the Word of God to help with the care of the poor. So, friends, choose seven men from among you whom everyone trusts, men full of the Holy Spirit and good sense, and we'll assign them this task. Meanwhile, we'll stick to our assigned tasks of prayer and speaking God's Word."

I think it's kinda cool how even from the beginning God gave Christians different gifts. And in giving them different gifts, he gave them different opportunities. Think about it, if the disciples did have time to serve all the widows and fix all the problems, then the seven men that were chosen for those tasks would never have been able to use their gifts to glorify God. By the seven taking over caring for the poor, it gave the disciples more time to pray and preach God's word, and it gave the seven the opportunity to serve and use the gifts they were blessed with. I'm glad they stepped up to the plate.