Happy Friday!
No formal God and Fudge today. I was at the meeting place this morning at 8:30, but, as usual, no one came. I wasn't surprised by that and was heavily leaning toward not even spending the time to head over there before I had to work at 9:00. I'm glad I went, though. I ran into the retail manager, Mike, who is mature and passionate about his faith in Christ. He asked me how the ACMNP ministry was going. Of course I am frequently thinking about how the summer has been, but having to articulate my thoughts and analysis to someone else subtlety challenges what my mental conclusions are. I'm not sure if that makes any sense, but put more simply: it's worth taking the time to check in with people.
The JPH was really busy today. If we had the same number of people but a full wait staff, we probably wouldn't have had a waitlist at all. Today, though, we had a ton of sun-lovers and not a ton of tables available. As a result, the wait increased to almost an hour for in and out. As usual, folks signing up for the waitlist weren't necessarily happy, but I could definitely tell an overall difference in attitude. The "newly wed and nearly dead" crowd (as the shuttle drivers call them) commonly made the comment of, "All well, we're on vacation....What time is it anyway?"
Tonight a contingent of us from the dorm went to the Seawall picnic area to the "star party." We are in the middle of the 6th Annual Acadia Night Sky Festival. We arrived to find a ton of red lights to aid our night vision and a plethora of telescopes trained on various stars in the clear sky. Looking through telescopes almost ruined the experience for my non-astronomy-educated eyes. Telescopes focus on a single point (which often look like every other single point) whereas my eyes can take in the full glory of a starry host. Beautiful.
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