for those of you who check this from time to time, thought you might like to know that I (Finley) had a pretty good battle with a kidney stone on Thursday. i had felt it coming on all week, but i guess my run on Wednesday afternoon dried me out enough for the stone to begin its decent from the kidney to the bladder. man was it painful! after about three hours of unrelenting pain, i finally got an IV going at my dad's office in fayetteville and they also gave me some IV pain medicine. i felt better almost immediately. a long nap and three bags of fluid later, i was on the upswing. by women who have had both, a kidney stone pain has been compared to being in labor. wow! i could never have kids. anyway the stone finally passed this morning and boy was it ugly. hope i never have to experience that again. i guess this was God's way of putting me on my back for a little while.
Okay, so here I am sitting in a Bobcat at Camp Living Stones out in the Smoky Mountains of Tennessee. I was on a team that took 60 seventh graders out to serve over spring break. This was my fifth year to go out there and this was probably my coolest job ever. I got to bring bucket loads of gravel for our students to unload. This machine is amazing. It can hold 6000 pounds of stuff up over its head and it turns on a dime! I definitely felt like a man driving this thing. I got really good at the end, going faster and remembering which foot pedal did what. Our trip was a success and our students had some life changing moments. Probably the most spiritually impactful was when the leaders washed the students feet the last night we were there...quite a humbling experience. If you are just dying to see more of what went on check out the Tennessee Blog on Fellowship's website.
