it's a little odd being home...but only because most of my time for the last 4 years has been spent in seattle. so when i'm here, i don't exactly have a "home" church, which means i just end up going to whichever church happens to strike my fancy. for christmas sunday, i went to antioch christian fellowship, out in tigard [that's in oregon]. it was nice - it wasn't exactly a traditional "christmas-y" message, but it was good anyway because it was about blessings and being a blessing to others. funny thing is that's two weeks in a row i've heard a message about blessings and such. last week a speaker at our church, rob schwartz, spoke about blessing and even used the same passage from the first few verses of genesis 12. interesting. afterwards, i dropped in a youth kids christmas party - which was a lot of fun, but that's mostly because these kids are just funny. we played guesstures and it was girls vs. boys - obviously the girls won. :) then there was the white elephant gift exchange - which was fun too.

today was much less eventful - a stop to costco to get my brand-spanking new tires onto my car and shopping with my dad for restaurant supplies - i think the checkout guy was horrified by the mass amounts of rice my dad bought. there was a brief stop at old navy - to help shop for a gift for project angel tree - a program that gets gifts for children whose parents are in prison, and some dinner with my parents.

it's very odd...christmas is in two days...yet it just doesn't feel like it's christmas time yet. i can't quite figure out why. maybe i should get off the computer and reflect on that for a bit. :)

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