deepbrew

Today was my last day at LCC.  3 weeks and 1 day ago I officially resigned my post in the bench room.  I’m going to Thailand for four month of missions training and experience with a program called IGO.

It’s hard to leave LCC.  I was there about a year and half.  Learned an awful lot about the IT world.  Besides my growing up on the farm and my two years at FB, it’s probably the most valuable experience I’ve ever had.  (guess that covers about everything I’ve ever done).  Not only did I become acquainted with a few of the ins and outs of small biz technology, but I learned an awful lot about relating to people.  I will definitely miss you all–Mark, Marcia, Josh, Byard, Jeff, Alex, Ron, and Mrs. A, the customer who sent in a pound cake once and freshed baked macadamia nut cookies another time, and who called about once a day with yet another problem on her aging PC.  Wow.

A word about my phone.  I don”t have cell phone anymore, cause it was a company phone, so don’t call me at 540-***-7351 anymore.  If you do you might get to talk to one of the above mentioned ppl.

At the risk of succumbing to unmanly sappiness, I am going to gush about a few people I really like. I love my friends, and just got back from a wonderful weekend with them.

First of all, a photo of my recently married cousin Brian and his wife Melissa, whose wedding I attended in mid January. I’ve got a lot of “best” friends, but Brian is definitely the one that goes back the farthest, starting from that momentous night as a thirteen year old with him and Loren in Brian’s dad’s haymow when we revealed to each other our deepest secret–who we liked. Turns out he liked the same girl I did, a fact I wasn’t particularly thrilled about, especially since he was always a couple steps ahead of me in the race to win her heart, but being able to talk about that sort of thing with other guys was definitely a big moment for all of us. Anyway, he’s happily married, as of January 13.

Going on to more recent friend events, this past weekend was a big one. SMBI’s Night of Music, the premiere conservative Mennonite event of the year, was Friday night. My little bro Eric was singing, and did very well on a solo. It was lots of fun meeting lots of people I hadn’t seen for ages.

One of the highlights was meeting Marlene, Kyle’s brand new girlfriend. They both seemed very happy, which is awesome!

After hanging out at Denny’s with a million night of music refugees, I had a great ride up to Lancaster with Karen and Sheri, who were nice enough to take me all the way in to the middle of Lancaster city to Jordan and Robin’s house. Michael came the next day, and in the evening Vince and Lydia and KrisAnne came over for supper and we had a totally wonderful evening. As we feasted around great food and conversation, I felt perfectly happy. Perfect happiness is not something I experience every day, that’s for sure, so I definitely notice it when I do feel it. I could go on, but to do so might be desecration. I don’t want to spoil it.

God is pure goodness. Take the love he pours into you this week and lavish it on someone in your life. Be happy.