My heart sinks...

Technology can be great... but it can also rip your heart out and make you want to cry... Why? Well, I just spent about an hour working on typing up a blog here and editing some things. When I went to publish it, an error page pops up and all is lost!
Which means, I must retype all (or more than likely part) of it again. :o(
Maybe you weren't supposed to know what I wrote before... or maybe it's an attempt to discourage me...
Well...
I will try again...
Here I am again. It's still February (barely). I had hoped and planned to have several entries this month but alas it did not happen. Time has a "funny" way of slipping away from you. Life keeps us busy, continually rearranging our schedules and priorities. Things also seem to often take longer to do than originally anticipated (ie. right now!). At any rate, February has been full... full of both ups and downs i guess you could say...
My mom almost died this month. Her appendix ruptured. Silly woman thought she just had the flu. After some research, my dad took her to the hospital. After surgery, the doctor told her that if she had waited any longer she would have been "headed south." After a number of complications, she is home slowly recovering and doing pretty well. Praise God! She would appreciate your prayers as she is still recovering.
I had been having some really intense pains in my head, mouth, ear, neck, & back off and on over the last several months. The pain would come and go (with much drugs and pain meds which barely touched the pain). Finally, I decided to have a wisdom tooth removed that had broken. The pain has not returned since the oral surgery. I am still recovering from the surgery though.
On a brighter note, the Lord has really been challenging, encouraging, and using me in many ways lately. The College & Career group has been going through a 4 week series that has been challenging all. The lessons were titled: "God's Mission, Our Mission," "Apostolic Passion," "Wartime Lifestyle-Living Simply," and this week's is "Wartime Lifestyle-Are You Fighting?" Please pray as I finish preparing for this week's lesson wrapping up this series.
The College & Career group is working on putting together some evangelistic outreach opportunities. We are planning a couple of events for April including a Coffeehouse and an "Open to Talk" Discussion Forum. These are some new strategic efforts and avenues for our group in partnering with God's Kindgom building evangelistic mission. I am excited about this and sense this is only just the beginning!
We are also trying to put together a team with our College & Career group to participate in the "Serve the City" summer missions program in Brussels. Our first official meeting will be this Friday. Please pray for "harvesters" to step up to be a part of this work. There are obviously other prayer requests and they will follow. This is the first step though so please pray that God will call and people will respond.
I've had some great times building relationships with people. I've really enjoyed living life as it should be: with others and God focused. I am excited at the work God is doing in me and through me. I am excited to be part of God's work both here locally and globally. I am excited to share in his ministry of refining and growing his children and bringing others into his fold. I am excited to have brothers and sisters in God's family. I am excited to be His!
God is at work. Let's join him in his Kingdom building evangelistic mission through prayer and actively loving others...

PS: There are no pictures in this entry (nor probably in the next). My apologies to those who prefer to read picture books. Thanks for bearing through. :o)
PPS: I was going to write two entries tonight but due to the technological difficulties, I will just write the one. Maybe (hopefully) I can get to another one tomorrow. We will see...
PPS: This entry wasn't quite as cleverly written as the first... such ashame... oh well... Let's just laugh about it anyways... :o) lol