It’s an Okay Pumpkin, Charlie Brown: The We-Wu for October 6-10, 2025

I love the film Chariots of Fire. If you’ve never seen it, you really should. But I bring it up because (spoilers) there’s a scene toward the end where Harold Abrahams has won and is wondering what the point of it all was. His entire life had led up to that point, and now it was over - what would become of him?

I had a brief moment of that this week when we had turned in everything for Term 1 of VCP. And then I looked at all of the post-it notes on my desk and the piles of work left to do, had a little hysterical laugh to myself, and buckled back down.

I am working on Phase 2 materials, mostly with editing and formatting. There will be more of that once I actually start putting it into the transfiles. I know very little of this will make sense to you, and that’s okay. Just know that I am working hard.

There were a lot of people in and out of my hallway this week because there was a coaching training going on across the way. Many of the facilitator’s would hang out here in the off season, as it were. Plus, I got to see Cody, my Texas friend. He’s a good bro.

The other thing I’m working on this week is my next prayer letter. I don’t know how these keep coming around. I have most of my topic, but words are hard. I am so far out of my regular routine that it takes me so long to get reoriented.

I saw somewhere a quote about being an adult and how it’s just constantly repeating “After this week, things will slow down a bit!”

It won’t. Never ever.

I need to be okay with that.

Anyway, I hope you guys have been okay. I went home last weekend and had a great time until Saturday night when we learned about a death in my Uncle’s family. We went up to sit with the family. Please pray for them as this is the third death in three years.

Then, on Wednesday, my mother ‘fell down go boom’ on a walnut and now has a fractured knee cap and a fractured wrist. She is not used to sitting still, so it’s a bit of an adjustment while she heals. Please pray for her as well.

Otherwise, we go on. We’re back in the cold season, which is not my favorite. But, it does let me embrace my hermit ways, so it’s not all bad.

Anyway, I think that’s it for now. I’m gonna take a minute to breathe. Not even sure I’m gonna deal with the small stuff right now. But you do you, booboo!

Bye!