It's my first day back in the office after a whirlwind vacation for the past two weeks. Our oldest son, Ben, and his wife, Carly, same over from Sydney for the two weeks and we had a great time. Ben has grown up so much in the last few years and is such a mighty man for God. Ben and I had a difficult relationship as he grew up. I didn't know much about parenting and he didn't much about obeying. A recipe for disaster. Thank God for forgiveness and reconciliation. He is working as a full time youth worker with Hillsong Youth Service and is getting to do a lot of preaching as well. My sons are great source of pride to me. They keep progressing in spite of their father and praise God that such things happen.
Ben, Carly, Julie and I did so much together. Lots of shopping. Australians can't believe the price of shoes at the outlets so they get pretty excited about shopping. Throw in Ross, Nordstrom Rack and Marshalls and they pretty much go ballistic. We went to couple of Padres (baseball) games one of which we won. Just in case anyone cares, the Padres are on top of the National League West. We went and saw the stage version of Hairspray which was a blast.
All of our boys live in Sydney and Julie and I live in San Diego. The separation is difficult, so times like these are very special to us.
No. Tell me it isn't so. Kobe wants to leave the Lakers. Has the world gone mad?
I am heading to the International Apologetics Conference this week with my friend, John Rudloph. Will try to catch up with some friends as well.
