Daniel Seidel’s Weblog

so i have been back in des moines for a little while now losing my sanity one day at a time.  i think i am just a person who does not do well with idle time but in a weird way.  it starts out that i am bored but then i get the opportunity to hang out with some people and i don’t want to but i do anyways and while hanging i am irritable and stuff until eventually i quit being annoyed.  it is a rather frustrating cycle.

i have been working some and that has been good.  still just part time work for childserve but it is so good.  the kids i get to work with are great and they help to remind me not to be so serious and uptight.

outside of that i have been reading a fair amount.  so far i have read Kite Runner (good) Joe Jones (alright) The New People (alright) Beautiful Boy (good).  now i am reading The Autobiography of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and yes i do know that he had some sin in his life, i have been reminded that last 3 times i brought up his name.  hopefully people don’t feel the need to bring up my shortcomings immediately after my name comes into a conversation.

so i am just kind of hanging BUT in about 4 days i am going to be in seattle! i will get in to Sea-Tac around midnight and should be around till the second to last week in june.  it will be so good to see family and friends.  also while i am back i might get the opportunity to speak at Seattle First Covenant Church about my upcoming trip.  While i am at it i should go into that for a second.

THANK YOU SO MUCH!! our team is totally being provided for in awesome ways.  so many of you have just eagerly stepped up and been generous with your money and it has been great.  also i know there are a lot of you who are praying and we have felt it. God is preparing us for something big and it is exciting.  the biggest thing i have left to do now is get some immunizations while i am back in seattle but i am thinking about skipping out on them.  honestly who has ever heard of “malaria”? it sounds made up to me, it is probably some kind of tourist hoax.

so all in all i am doing well even though i am completely out of my mind.