The Personification of May

Every year, I try not to repeat over and over how crazy busy May tends to be. And every year, I fail.

I’m really starting to think that the month of May is a living thing that has some kind of vendetta. It sneaks into our agendas and adds to our to do lists, when we should be checking things off. It delights in surprising us with the unexpected at the last minute.

Today I spent a good part of the day doing paperwork. Now, I admit, the timing was entirely my fault. However the complexity of the paperwork is entirely the achievement of government bureaucrats. So we’ll see if we can get that worked out this week… I at least hit the ball out of my court for the moment.

Then I spent another part of the day dealing with tech support – a problem which, believe it or not, they’ve been helping me with since last spring. But I was assured that they would solve all my problems, today between 5:30pm and 8:30pm when they give me a call. They have 4 minutes left – I expect I will be interrupted with the perfect fix in a moment.

Anyway, we would appreciate your prayer for endurance, especially this week and next. This weekend we’re looking forward to some special ministry opportunities, which I’ll try to tell you about later. But I do have to get ready for them. And Nathanael is on the home stretch of his semester, which essentially means exams and an unusual amount of chemistry.

Last weekend we enjoyed a special recognition service for a new pastor in a church in Mexico City. We saw lots of people from other churches that we haven’t seen in a while, so that and the service itself were a great encouragement. I was the keyboardist, something I haven’t gotten to do in a while. Somehow or other we end up being thankful for May, even though we don’t always get along.

Well, the phone isn’t ringing – so I guess I’d better go and get something else done, or else rest up for another crazy May day. Thanks for your prayers!