I hope that it will not be hot all night long, but as the day is hot it may be. As I write this it is currently 94°F. If I was in somewhere closer to the equator I would expect this. If it was summer, I could understand these temperatures. If I was in the Midwest I could understand it. But, I am in the foothills of the Cascades in northwest Oregon. the 80s are hot for us, sometimes a few days of 90s. But this early in the year‽ Well at least the forecast (we all know how accurate those can be) says we will get down to 56°F tonight and only up to 81° tomorrow. That is one nice thing about the NW at least when it gets hot in the day it typically cools down at night, unlike some places I have lived, but still 94°F‽ The average high temp for today is 67°F. That’s about 27°F above our norm for this time of year! (I think it go even hotter than this early today, thus thigh is probably 30+°F above norm.) Looking at the US map, the west side of the country is hotter than normal for the most part, and the eastside is cooler than normal today.. Tis an odd day.
I wish I was somewhere else right now. Not because of the heat, though to get away from it would be nice, but I feel I need to be elsewhere. I would love for an opportunity to come up that would cause me to to leave the northwest and serve. I would love to get a phone call, an e-mail, a letter saying “Hey Lyle, we need you to come here and do xyz” or “Hey Lyle, we want you to come and do xyz.” Then sometime after the close of the worship service on 21 May at TCC I would take off to go where I need to be. I know I’m dreaming, but I feel thee is so much for me to do, and while I can do some of it here. I know this is not the place I need to be for long. I just don’t know where it is I am suppose to be, at least not for sure. I know places I would not mind being, but I do not know if those are the places I needed to be or not.. al I know for sure is that in the long run the NW is not where I am to be, I’ve know this for at least 6 years, and when I left then I did not expect to end up back here for the past three. I know there are reasons, I just wish I knew a bit more about them, and what I need to do to allow whatever it is to happen that needs to happen for the next part of my journey on the Path of the Disciple.
Wow, how did I get from Wow it’s hot to I need to be where I need to be, but need guidance to figure out where that is and how to get there and what it is I am suppose to be doing there? Ahh.. the wonders of the human mind.
Peace,
— Lyle II