Moving On

Romans 6:5 For if we have been united together in the likeness of His death, certainly we also shall be in the likeness of His resurrection, 6 knowing this, that our old man was crucified with Him, that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves of sin. 7 For he who has died has been freed from sin. 8 Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him, 9 knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, dies no more. Death no longer has dominion over Him. 10 For the death that He died, He died to sin once for all; but the life that He lives, He lives to God. 11 Likewise you also, reckon yourselves to be dead indeed to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
~the passage our Pastor preached from on Easter Sunday

We were actually in PA for a holiday. I think this may have been the first one since we moved here some two and a half years ago. I hadn’t really thought about it either, until people at church were saying they were surprised to see us there on Easter Sunday. Why? I asked. Well, you’re always in CT for holidays, so we didn’t think we’d be seeing you here today. Made sense. However, it was the first weekend in a month that we didn’t have anything planned, so I was enjoying our time together.

That is until I looked at my List of Things To Do which seems to have “Portfolio” permanently etched in it. This is the last week of actual classes, which means I won’t have anymore excuses as to why I can put off working, full force, on it. There are so many fun distractions, like…anything! We still have our Netflix subscription (can I recommend Tristan & Isolde (A+++)?, the first romantic pick of our entire subscription). And Facing the Giants (A), Flags of Our Fathers (A), and Flyboys (A-) have all kept the DVD player warm lately. And then there’s Instant Messaging and TV shows and outings that all seem much more interesting than thinking hard about what I have learned about Elementary Reading and Literacy.

All this to say that I was actually looking forward to a quiet Sunday, after church of course, where lots of work would be accomplished. That was not to be…in a good way, though. David sang in a 45-minute cantata at church and did exceptionally well. The choir was so glad to have him back. I love his voice. My mom does, too. She’s always jostling me aside in church to get closer to David so she can hear him sing. After church, different people were asking about our plans, and I told D that I didn’t want anyone to know we weren’t going anywhere or doing anything because a) I had work to do and b) I didn’t want anyone to feel like they had to invite us over their house. Well that plan didn’t work so well.

Our friends Keith and Julie were going over Keith’s brother’s house with the rest of his family, whom we know from church. They are always so welcoming and are always inviting us to do things with them, a lot of which we turn down. D really wanted to go because he felt bad we say no a lot and we didn’t have a good excuse this time…not that we try to avoid them because we totally don’t! So we accepted and the plan was to meet them at 4pm. We got there right on time and had the best 4+ socializing hours in a while. The house and the people reminded me of my house and my family: warm, entertaining, happy, sociable, and just all around nice people. We could have stayed another four hours, but, well, duty called. I was telling David later that these are the type of people we will make a point of seeing when we come back to PA for a visit.