I'm posting from Valentine, Nebraska, just south of Rosebud Indian Reservation. I will be posting often throughout the week over at , and I've already posted about .
I'll also be taking tons of pictures and uploading them as I go to .
I'm off to a meeting.
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The wait is finally almost over. John Mayer's new album, Continuum, is . Head over to and listen to the groovy new single, "Waiting on the World to Change".
I'd like to begin this post with a joke Tom told me:
Tom: You know how we know the indians were here first?
Jake: How?
Tom: They had reservations.
Kind of makes me miss the podcast (although there are talks of a summer episode).
On a serious note, I am heading back to for the fourth time in the last year on Saturday. I am going with four other leaders and fifteen high school students to the town of Parmeleee for a week.
The trip will be very much like last year, except this time we have fewer students and we're not sleeping in a high school gymnasium.
When I think of the extremely poor state of the reservation and the horrible living conditions, it makes me sick. I just pray that our time there positively affects the community and that we bring a feeling of love and compassion.
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Our church is going on another baseball trip this year, this time to Chicago for a Cubs/Cards game(!) followed by a White Sox/Twins game. The other night I was at Brandon's house watching a televised Cubs game when I suggested that we make signs for the game we will attend that say "Jesus was a Cubs fan." He was quick to correct my simple, yet profoundly theologically significant error: "Jesus is a Cubs fan."
Well, I suppose if we're really aiming for theological accuracy it should probably be "Jesus was, is, and always will be a Cubs fan." (e.g., )
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