Focus "month"

The last few weeks have been crazy, but crazy in a good way: running around town with the Focus Month kids, getting ready for a trip to Haiti (We leave next Thursday!), watching my sister and her band play, youth group on Sunday and Wednesday nights, college group on Thursday nights (the fact that I get to be in a small group rather than just lead one has been a nice switch up), occasionally remembering to clean in my apartment, etc.

As expected, the Focus Month has looked nothing like what I had planned or imagined, but it has been a very cool thing just the way that it is. We meet every morning and typically hang out until mid afternoon, working on anything and everything and more or less living in the park. Literally, two of the kids were laughing yesterday that, if something apocalyptic were to happen and communications went down, we would still be able to find each other, because we would just have to go to the big rock at the park and...there would be the entire Focus Month group.

We do a lot of laughing and a lot of teasing each other and, for some reason, a lot of talking about personality types.

We've looked at AIDS, homelessness, human trafficking, clean water, local hunger, and a dozen other things that come up in everyday conversation. They've run awareness events and fundraisers and spent hours upon hours brainstorming. And... we've fed squirrels, played with fire, climbed rocks, and eaten pizza.

Basically, it shouldn't work, but it does.

I can't promise that we'll have changed the world when we get to the end of all this (whenever that end happens to be), but we might have succeeded, just a little, in changing ourselves and creating new-to-us way of being family and doing church. Or, at least, that's where it looks like it's going.

It also looks like it might need a new name soon. How long are you allowed to call something a "month," before people start to wonder?