La Sonya

So I posted a video about space and how cool it was . I've talked a million times about how much I love space, stars the moon and all that jaz. Well KLM airlines is offering a one in a trabillionmillion chances to win a free ticket to space. I'll be honest. I'm not sure how I feel about this. SPACE! Oh, man to be there, to see it, to feel it, to float in it! Wowzers. YES! But then I think about the Challenger  we just read a story about that. I'm a teacher after all, we know what happened to the last teacher that tried to go up. Plus it just sounds like a horrible catastrophe waiting to happen. But again it's space. Hmmm. I don't know if I could handle the whole thing, what if I died from excitement? Maybe I'll enter, maybe I wont. I can't decide. What should I do? If I win, I'll probably experience this in first person:

“Arise, my love, my beautiful one, and come away,  for behold, the winter is past;  the rain is over and gone.  The flowers appear on the earth,  the time of singing has come." Song of Songs 2:10-12

"And since we are all one body in Christ, we belong to each other, and each of us needs all the others." Romans 12:5 See, we do need each other. Community is important. This is the one time it's okay to be a big fatty body, so big we keep growing wider and wider. Going on morning rounds at Camp Yavapines. (Summer 2012)

Teaching and principal-ing is a lot of work. I live at this school most days. I have yet to sleep here but it's coming, it is only a matter of time. I'm scared of doing things wrong or messing up but God is reminding me who put me here. I went up to the big trees the other day, it had been to long. I miss being among the giants, feeling so small and new. It was a good feeling, a good memory. The air was fresh, the path familiar and the trees wise from having seen it all. I forget sometimes to take time in God-wild places, it gives Him a chance to speak without distraction. Only two months left of school! Wowzers, where has the time gone? I've got a principal trip to Las Vegas a week before my birthday. Haha, wanna meet me there? I have a 1/2 marathon to run in May but my IT band has been hurting and I'm scared. I've had to cut back on my running and I'm working on strengthening it. But I had just gotten good at running, I was averaging 9.52 min miles on ...