I have been doing school this semester and I have been taking a pretty full load. It has been challenging and stretching - but I am enjoying it.

Sandy and I have a great deal going on in our lives which has a tendency to stress us both out. But I see good things coming in the future. I am looking forward to the retreat center - but getting there can be a real pain sometimes.

Interestingly - in the Bible there are three day cycles. Jesus, - three days and then the resurrection , Jonah- three days in the fish, Esther - three days before going before the king, three days all over the place (HT Graham Cooke)

I think that as we leave the first day - which is death - and journey into the three day which is resurrection - there is hell in the middle so to speak. The 2nd day. The apostle's creed says as much:

"He descended into hell." - Apostle's creed.

So I guess that was the second day. Catholic saint St. John of the Cross called it the "dark night of the soul" - so maybe as a great deal of people I know are in this "day" maybe that is what is going on?