I feel excited about going to church now. There’s a lightness to the morning where it feels like going to church is just what you do, what you want and intend to do, and what you have always done. We have not reached a consensus on where we should join. Today we went to Auburn which is my favorite of the Lutheran churches. There is a spirit of friendliness and family love and the service is traditional but more relaxed.

The two major issues are 1) the distance since it is 40-45 minutes away, and 2) the fact that it is not an association church with the high school. If we want a tuition break we have to stay within the association. I’ve been told we’re not going to just be on the roster somewhere making the church pay for our kids while we’re actually going somewhere else. I don’t know why the rules have to be so different for our ways.

I do. The one we are in most agreement on is Trinity downtown which is the one with the split campus. Last week we went there and I decided that I could live with the divide and even get used to and be generally okay with it. We could even still go to Auburn every once in a while. Auburn has an active youth group with many kids who go to camp. I like not having to preserve my energy and that I can just have the whole day.

Really I just long for community, fellowship, and a place to serve. I can’t stand the separate islands.