Here we are three days into CPx and all of our wonderful students are sitting next door while I am baby sitting. I have to say that they are a wonderful bunch of folks and seem so mature. I feel so blessed to be allowed to form a community with them and to invest in them. I feel like I am getting as much out of it all as they are - perhaps more.

I was so blessed today when little K's baby stroller finally arrived. It had been expected for more than a week and was becoming quite a burden to Mom and Dad. They really needed a way to transport the baby. I was running around like my usual half-maniacal self when I noticed that the stroller had arrived. I stopped my car and hopped out to tell everyone. Well, I never saw a group of adults who weren't Mom and Dad get so excited about a baby stroller before! I was so happy to see three men pounce on the thing and clamor to put it together and then to see everyone in the front yard admiring it. I knew then that these people had made a decision to love another - to make another's burden their burden.

I knew right then that I had seen community in its most basic and wonderful form. That makes for a pretty good day, I'd say.