I got home around 8 this evening. It was a tiring drive made easier by a couple of Tim Keller Sermons and conversations with kids and grandkid. As a side note on that last personage, there's nothing quite like hearing your best childlike voice telling a six week old via speakerphone all sorts of earth shattering stuff to keep you grounded in whats really important.
This trip contained lots of important stuff. Pertinent peoples knew about it, but I spared any would be burglars who would have robbed my house the agony of being greeted by my husband and his pack of dogs by not announcing it on facebook. Seriously - one might rightfully expect to get bit or get stung sneaking around my house uninvited. But I digress. Remember, I am tired.
Everything is still soaking in: two days of intense classroom instruction by some of the nations top instructors and taking the most brutal test of my life; hanging out with one of my best girlfriends that I see once or twice a year; my mom working on my ingrown toenail (ok, I know that was gross but she's the only one who can do it without causing me great pain); going off road with my mom and then my cousin to see my dad's favorite deer plots; seeing a struggling church rally and trust God for survival, bringing home a boatload of stuff for ministry purposes.
Good Stuff
Good Memories
And Responsibility.
To whom much is given much is required.
I have been given so much. My dear sweet husband has supported this seemingly insane endeavor to become a Master Beekeeper and now that it's almost complete (a bit of paperwork to tidy up) I've got a new sense of responsibility to pursue my two beekeeping related passions - 1) education with the purpose equipping more beekeepers so 2) Africanized bees will be held in check. Call it eco-activism or whatever, but it's driven my train for a few years now. Maybe now people will listen to me. If one person can be saved an excruciating stinging experience or even death, it will be worth it.
And even more important, if one person can be pointed to the Creator Who's design of the little bee is equal to our own, all the better.
