Habitat 'Ho

Here's why I love Team 'Wood (which is disbanded now, sadly):

-I went late today, lots of stuff to do first. When I walked on-site, I saw Blond North Carolina Boy (he's about 17, he's here this summer staying with his brother who attends my law school) and he filled me in on the team's happenings. When I asked if there were too many people at that house, he said, "There are a lot, but we would love to have you." Now, that's just nice as can be. And I find over and over, that's what Kids These Days are like.

-Cincinnati Girls invited me out tonight, which will be very fun.

-We were on scaffolding to put up siding and the sawhorse broke and Blond North Carolina Boy fell off backwards. He was ok, just some bleeding and scrapes. He got back up and kept on working on. When Preacher Billy walked past, I said, "Hey! BNCB just laid down his life, just like you tell us to do every morning!" Poor Billy was not in best shape, he was tired or something, and he took it seriously and was concerned about injury and liability and all that (we do insanely dangerous things regularly). But later BNCB said slyly, "I liked your joke about the laying down the life. I got it." I don't want to be mean to Preacher Billy; I just get tired of hearing the same sermons over and over.

So, it was a good but short Habitat day. I will go in tomorrow and Monday and part of Wednesday hopefully, but then I'm not able to go in every day, and I will really, really miss it. I will miss learning and I will miss people and I will miss serving meaningfully.