Life as I know it

So for the past three weeks or so, you could almost say that life is becoming routine. Our household has come up with a schedule for our evenings: Monday = Allendale area meeting, Tuesday = men's and women's groups, Wednesday = neighborhood dinner and chores, Thursday = Barrett date night and HH free night, Friday = HH night (work for an hour then do something fun, though working together is really fun too), Saturday = Lord's Day, Sunday = get ready to do it again. Laura Brummer and I (the two members of our household who have the most time available for mission work) have been working on developing a weekly schedule. The best/our available times to do mission work vary according to the day and what type of mission work we want to do, so we have a set amount of hours budgeted each day for things like billable work, mission work, and meditations and then assign exact times during our morning run. I had the wonderful revelation this week that my current "normal" pattern of life means that I am usually doing a different activity every couple of hours. To give you an idea of what life is like, here's some of the things I was doing at various times last Thursday,

5:25am wake up to go running at the Galiliee track with Laura
6:30 household morning prayer and breakfast
7:30 personal prayer
9:00 work - I do administrative work for Action and Partners in Service. Its almost time to start applications for Action trips so on Thursday I did some work getting ready for that and finished the thank you cards and end of year statements for Partners in Service regular donors
1:00pm - taking a grandma and some of her grandkids (some good friends of ours in the neighbohood) to see another of the grandkids who is in the hospital
4:00 - visiting and praying with a neighbor who is very sick from Lupus and cancer.
4:45 meditation on Jesus' presentation in the temple
6:00 dinner with household. Joan, who usually have class on thursday nights, gets to join us.
7:30 skype conference with the MIS work section in Dinkytown. They are designing the Action application website.
8:30 phone conversation with Mike Zusi about action work
9:45 laughing in the living room with Cathy and Laura, reading a chapter from a book I got for Christmas: Jesus of Nazareth, Benedict XVI's scripture study on Jesus.
10:30 bedtime

Though I know that its extremely likely life could look very different in a few weeks (and am totally fine with that) I must admit that I have enjoyed three weeks of a somewhat similar structure. Praise God for all the work he has given us to do!