Hey Ya’ll,

            Long time no see.  I miss you guys.  It is kinda hard to figure out how to sum up the last few months of my life because for the most part they have been so routine that they don’t seem very interesting to me.  Anywho, I will describe them anyways, since my routine life is less familiar to you.

            Right now I am working somewhere between eighty and ninety hours any given week, which is not half so bad as it sounds because fifty plus hours of those are an overnight shift that I am free to do what I want (including sleep) after around nine as long as I am in earshot of the monitor.  I am working (quite sloooowly) on my masters in counseling.  Once I finish this semester I believe I will be one quarter of the way through the program, so if I continue at my current pace, I will be done in about three years.  Looking forward to getting that degree, but I am really hoping it will not really take that long (without much optimism).  I have also been mentoring some girls from my church, which I really enjoy.    

            Now, on to the less routine.  In mid February, my sister had a beautiful baby boy named Amos Augustine.  He is a chunk, weighing in around ten pounds at birth, and from the pictures quite adorable (haven’t made it out there to meet him yet). 

            Also in February I did something quite lunatic.  I went down to phoenix and talked with students on Arizona State University campus about abortion.  See, several months before, Tim Brahm told me about the organization he is working for, Justice For All.  They travel throughout the country training ordinary people to dialogue about abortion in a sane and intelligent fashion.  They also go to public forums like college campuses and create dialogue using an exhibit that asks the questions what is the unborn, can/should we kill it, and is abortion humane.  

            In February, they held an outreach on the ASU campus, and I went through their training and then hung out on campus talking to people.  It was pretty intense, but I really enjoyed it.  I got to learn a lot about how to have intelligent dialogue with people about important ideas (who aren’t Torrey students), and I got a chance to hear a lot of different viewpoints and worldviews.  Some of those worldviews were a bit on the terrifying side given the amount of relativism and Darwinism that is rampant on a secular college campus.

            In mid April Justice For All came back to Arizona with an outreach at the Tucson county fair, and I got to join them there.  This time instead of just showing up for a seminar and a few hours of outreach, I got to be there for the whole weekend, which was even cooler.  I am currently exploring the option of doing an internship with JFA, so it was really nice to get a glimpse into what it is like to be a staff member, and to be able to spend time with the staff (who are awesome people) and pick their brains.

            Anywho, now it back to my normal life, and I have probably been procrastinating long enough.  I look forward to hearing more about how ya’ll are doing.

~Sarah

P.S. Shaya, you might want to check out Justice For All given your involvement with your local CPC and given the area you are working.