AUTHOR: Mark TITLE: DATE: 8:03:00 PM ----- BODY: Indiana weather.... Another strange day in the state of Indiana. Yesterday it was 61 degrees, today it is snowing, go figure. Another reason for me to leave this state....I think God is trying to communicate something. It has been decided. I am attending the Nashville Emergent Conference. My hope is that it will be more rewarding than last years. It seems the format has changed, so I am looking forward to it again, hopefully this time I won't be disappointed. Thursday is here again, it goes so damn fast. I hope July comes like a freakin hurricane. I am ready to move, ready to be challenged, ready to see what God has in store for us. The stay here has been interesting. It has had its ups and downs. It has had many more downs than ups, but the ups are still good. Relationships have been forged, they will be the toughest thing about leaving. I am worried about some of the students. Looking them in the face and telling them the news will probably be one of the toughest things. Yet, if God is for it, who can be against it? Most of the closest relationships will most likely already know. It has been a tough year, one of the hardest years for me. I think I should have left a year ago, but it is all in God's timing. I hope I am smart enough for school. I have been trying to stretch my self and read some things that are way too hard. Derrida and others on post-structuralism; they have been translated into English but they may as well have stayed in French because I don't know what the hell they are saying. I grasp the understanding of negative theology - atleast the basic idea - but this difference idea, it is some place I have never dreamed of my mind going, wow. I am starting Jim Wallace's book on politics, hopefully it will be in my language....... --------