One of those is the Emergent Village blog.

Well, one of the perks of moving to this house in San Diego almost 3 years ago was the empty dirt lot next to our house that we sorta inherited. It is about 3/4 of an acre of non-buildable land per the city and as a result, is a great exploration space that I’m sure my kids will see as symbolic of their boyhood years in the future. They, along with the other neighborhood kids, have claimed it as their own personal sandlot where they’ve been known to dig for treasure, fight battles, and more recently- build bmx jumps. As a result, there seems to be a constant supply of shovels and bikes in the back 40 these days.

That was until this past Saturday when the “just-watch-others-go-big” days passed us up. My older two have now earned their flying wings (and accompanying flesh wounds) and thanks to some instruction from our newest Berry Family recruit- Matt who has stayed with us for a few weeks now and took my boys to jump school with his new bike- they are now flying in the land of all things dirt jump.

Here’s 3 picture collages to see the proof I speak of…

Easter was a kick. Started pretty early and was at church until about 1pm. I loved church. Read: “LOVED it”. It was so fun, exciting, and inspiring. Made me want to live more intentionally for Jesus and do a great job as a youth pastor at Journey, just so that I can hold up my end of the deal. I love the fact that I can invite a student or their parents to come and know they will all have a great time. So cool and so challenging.

After church we headed back to our house. My parents are here in town. We had the neighbors from down the street up for an egg hunt with their youngest kids and then dinner with everyone after. When we add the Cleaves family, a college room mate of one of their children, and Matt (a former student who we have taken in during some tough times and has been living with us for about 2 weeks now) and you end up with 14 people for dinner. So much fun.

Here’s some pics:

Today was my first day off in a while. I slept in. Had a cup of coffee. Picked up my parents from the airport, and then sat down to be lazy when TJ said, “Can you help me build a go-cart?” I thought about it and said, “What are you going to build it with?” He said, I don’t know. Spare stuff.?.?

So, we went out into the garage…

• 2 bike wheels off a busted bike.
• 3 lengths of 2×4
• 1 wood crate
• 2 training wheels
• and some nuts and bolts later…

we had a go-cart to rival the land of go-carts.

I’m lost. What is up with Twitter? I mean really, who has time to tell the world what they are doing every second or to check up on their friends? And since when do I want to constantly answer the question, “What are you doing right now?” all the time for my friends via the web? I thought it was weird enough that you’re supposed to update a status on facebook answering this question, but do we really need another social networking site dedicated to just this one function? I think twitter is either a voyeuristic niche market or maybe for the technologically bored…. but what is the draw here? Am I missing something?

I can’t see myself ever updating my status hourly so people know what I’m up to. This seems crazy to me.