Traveling

Within the hour I plan to leave for Pennsylvania.  I will arrive home again on Sunday evening.  I'm headed for Harrisburg where I will connect with my brother Caleb's family, who live nearby in Mechanicsburg.  Someone from the Lancaster area will pick me up there on Friday on their way to SMBI near Harrisonville.  After the Oasis Ladies' Retreat for women in ministry (nurses, teachers, missionaries, pastors' wives, etc.) the travel process will be reversed.

The worst part of the above plan is that I will miss the first day of school here.  I worked ahead to prepare for school, and the rest of the staff is graciously covering for me, so I think things will go smoothly without me.  

This is the only trip of the summer for me.

If you're a blog reader and you plan to be there, I hope we can connect at the retreat.  I won't know who you are, so you may have to take the initiative.  All are welcome to pray.  I have the usual panic about my presentation--way too many half-baked ideas and too few well-developed coherent ones.  I am eager to make new friends and renew old acquaintances, and to drink in what I can during the keynote sessions.