Yesterday marked the last of the berrytribe soccer games in regular season. We now have 2 weeks of post season/playoffs and then it’s over for another year. It’s been a lot of fun. It’s been a lot of work. But it’s been worth it.

Here’s the latest pic.

If you thought the largest evacuation in california history was bad with close to a million people evacuated and some 2000+ homes lost, then try pondering 900,000 people displaced last wed. in Mexico due to flooding where no one has a home that will be inhabitable and mold will win the day.

On Thursday I’m leading a team of volunteers to go do fire clean up in North County. Man, it’s a small world we live in and tragedy doesn’t seem to care what your political, social, financial, or theological position might be…. we all suffer. We all need hope in something outside of this crazy rotating celestial ball.

I’ve been meeting with a new friend/volunteer youth pastor weekly in my area for about the past month or so. He is at a small church in our community and yesterday he told me his pastor wouldn’t let him bring in a friend to lead worship this last week because his friend leads worship at a Calvary Chapel in Costa Mesa and his boss said that the Calvary Chapel is not Spirit Filled.

I said, “Tell me you’re kidding.” He said, “Nope.” I said, “Dude, I could not work at your church. I’d have said that’s b.s. You smell that? It’s what we’re stepping in and it’s waist deep… and then been fired.” We both laughed. It’s just ridiculous.

To that end… in some random way, I read this awesome post. Loved it.

3 cheers for humility and heresy.

Here’s a video our team put together via video using some of these comments in I posted earlier this week. Daniel, a gifted graphic artist/web/video guy who works part time at our church did the filming/editing. Sarah, my partner in crime, made the cards and directed it with our students. All I did was make the cards they put the initial statements on. Not much credit goes to me on this…

Last week. I had friends and family call and e-mail to see if I was ok during the wildfires. Those who didn’t call or e-mail may have not thought it was needed or were busy or just assumed we were fine or talked to their friends who did talk to us or yatta yatta yatta. I didn’t keep a list or anything, but there were quite a few.

Perhaps some just read my blog which got 800+ hits last week and gave daily updates of our family situation. I normally have about 250 visitors. However, it really wasn’t cuz all my long lost friends and family were checking it. It was because Marko linked to me twice. Here and Here. And Marko gets like a 8 bagillion more people who care about what he says than I do, so their curiosity landed them on my blog.

But anyway, today I got a call from USAA, the company I pay for my home owners insurance. They called my cell phone to make sure I was alright and that neither my family nor my home sustained any damage that I needed to report. It was from a gal who was very sincere in asking how we were and making sure there was nothing they should be doing to help.

It was my INSURANCE COMPANY!!!! If there aren’t enough claims at the end of the year, they also send you a refund check so they don’t make more money than is reasonable. Go figure. I think I’ll stay with USAA.