my age, it means less

friday night - 7:54 pm, listening to dylan:

"the land that i live in has GOD ON ITS SIDE"

took part of the day off to re-connect with felicia and adam who i hadn't seen in 6 days! adam is looking bigger and is quite hyper running this way and that. we went to milestones for brunch which was very nice - got to meet the chef, ron - really nice guy.

then poking around in different shops - adam got this really cool looking winter jacket - it looks like its leather but its not. i looked at a few hats - i'm thinking of buying a hat to spiff up my image.

stoppe dinto the office to talk with tom our sr. pastor - just to tell him how toronto was. i then tried to clean up my office - i have so much freaking paper!!! i tossed a whole bunch today - i should say i recycled a whole bunch. then i went through a bunch of piled up phone messages and other office type stuff that piles up when you're away.

also got the new ut dvd - live in chacago - kind of psyched about it.

i have a sort of private prayer request for this week - please try to remember me this week - will let you know next week what happened.

now its keith green:

"no words can say the glorious way you've changed me wiht your love"

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