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So I mentioned, ever so briefly, going to GR for an interview last week. ( See post here .) It is with a national charter school organization that is having some great successes. I'll keep it in privacy for now--don't know why, but it is what it is. It was again an all day interview for a possibility of becoming a principal with their organization. Their Principal recruiter is the one that called me and did a couple of phone interviews, then set up the all day thing. Needless to say, it was a long day of interviewing, but as far as all day interviews go, I have to tell you that this was the most enjoyable one that I have had as an interviewee. She sent me a schedule for the day, and it looked like this: 8:15-12:30 Career History Interview with principal recruiter and HR guy (even though they call him something like people capital manager....) 12:30-1:30 Lunch/Interview with Marketing lady 1:30-2:30 Interview with Curriculum/Instruction lady 2:30-3:30 Inte...

Topic 1: So, back to the Combine Demolition Derby. If you have a pulse, you need to go to the Iosco County Fair and see this. People strap themselves onto a machine designed to harvest crops, and then they smash into other people on the same type of machines until the axles fall off, they blow up, or they can't smash into each other anymore. Here I am sitting on one of the losers: It was a lot of fun, and you can see all of the images here: http://picasaweb.google.com/timmkellynyc/Derby Topic 2: It has been n early a year since I felt like God was calling me to be a part of the communitas - nyc team. Next week will mark the one year anniversary of that event. It appears from an outsider looking in that not much has happened in the way of the Kelly family getting to nyc and being a part in this plant. Still have not gotten a job there, have not sold the house here. But take a look at the post by the world renowned 'superstar' about the last year HERE. What ...

I have a few things to blog about, but right now I sit in a little corner of paradise commonly referred to as Beulah, Michigan.  I brought Big Red up here for pastor and his family so that they could enjoy their vacation with the whole fang damily.  This is pastor's dad's house, and it sits at the end of a dead end two track on Crystal Lake, which is arguable the most beautiful lake I have ever seen.  So we are on the way up here, and the power steering and brakes go out.  Come to find out the belt broke, but I had to wrestle Big Red without ps/pb for the last 80 miles or so.  Not as bad as I initially thought, but it was work.  But we got it here.  We're setting it up, and we hear a bang, or pastor does.  All he wanted to do this week is go sailing, and he says-"Well, you can forget the sailing, look at the sailboat."  The mast had snapped off the sailboat, and was laying over the side.  Two strikes for the day.  But we do get to sit here in this beautiful place,...

And so we meet with pastor and his wife today to discuss the possibility of leading the team of communitas-michigan. Crazy to think of the possibility of superstar and I leading the team when they go-not exactly what I ever thought I might be doing. But that is the beauty of God and how He would choose to use us. Maybe I am getting ahead of myself, and ahead of God's plan for us, so I am not going to go crazy on this idea. But I am going to be open to the possibility of God using us in this way, and I am going to commit to praying that God would reveal to us how this might play out here in Michigan. I wrote a little about this on Sunday (because apparently some people only live to read this blog!!). I told my men's group last night that I was finally at a point of total peace going to nyc to do this, and God might be telling me-"Well, not just yet." That is challenging to get so excited to do something you know God is calling you to do, and then have God tell yo...

So here I am, enjoying my summer vacation. Doing some great things, having some fun times. I am getting bombarded with people chewing me out for not keeping up with this. I apologize, but like I said-it is summer time. In looking back at my recent posts, I feel like I have just been telling about fun things, and not really diving into the heart of what is happening currently in the kelly lives. So this will be a longer post with lots of stuff for yo u to catch up on. The last couple weeks have been challenging for me personally. It appears (on the surface) that perhaps there is not a job that God has laid out in nyc for this fall. Don't read too much into that-I am actually still in the pools for multiple jobs there that I am unsure of the outcome. However, in my mind's eye, I had assumed if we were going this fall, that God would have already provided some work in the city by this point. That is not the case as of today. I was getting to the point that I was even ang...

So yesterday, sick pete and I packed up the moving van for pastor and the family. There was a lot of joy to be had in the truck, in the garage, and in general. Even if sick pete was late for breakfast. The visualization of their home empty was a clarification of what exactly is going on here. It is exciting for me to watch them pack and go, but the reality of it is striking. Take your whole life, your home, your world, and get rid of it all. I have been so eager to do just that, but what I should be doing is enjoying the fact that my world has not gone away just yet. I should enjoy the fact that we still have a stove in our house. I should enjoy the fact that we still have a couch to sit on. Etcetera. So I am going to try to do just that. I am going to try to enjoy being in a place where I don't know where God will have our family next week, next month, or even next year. I will do my best to demonstrate the joy of God, and the fact that our Creator loves us and blesses...

So tonight the girls and I went over to hammy's house. Man those hambaum girls are cutie pies!. So my girls got to swim, go on golf cart rides, sit in the kitchen and yack it up about all those things girls talk about. I can't wait to come back to michigan and visit the hammy family. PS-Of course after hammy made the modifications to his path, now we can get the jeep through the woods. All the girls and I went through the woods, then parked where it sits in the photo. Oh, you're wondering if I went over the pile? Why yes, I did. It did take three times, but I did it. It was pretty sweet.

Waiting for God to show you His plan is not fun. It is painstaking. Especially when most people come up to you and the first thing they say is something along the lines of : "So when are you moving?" "So what is the latest on the New York deal?" "So what if you don't get a job?" "So when are you planning on leaving?" WE DON'T KNOW OK. I would like to leave tomorrow, and never to look back. Because superstar and I are do-ers. We going to do this? Yes. OK, then let's DO IT. But not this time. God has us in the valley before the big show. The valley is here to teach us so many things. Patience. Character. Trust. Faith. Listening. Did I mention patience? So we go to new community last night-I am so glad that I did because I have been mr. negativity pants lately. But I shed those pants last night, and I have a new fervor for waiting on God. Norman spoke this question-"Where did you see God today?" What a glorio...

Week of Fun- It's been too long since my last post. SO MUCH happened this week, and I will give you a brief run down. Brother was in town this week, got to spend some quality time with he and his family. Even went to Emil's for a beer. We both have girls the same ages, and they ran and played and ran and swam and ran and screamed and ran and.........well, you get the picture. It was great to take Big Red out to the parents and set up shop all week. The weather was absolutely perfect all week, thanks be to God. A lot of events for communitas this week-job interviews, house rentings, people feeling compelled to move there even without jobs. Not sure what all of that means for us. Met with the pastor last week, and he asked if I would be willing to lead communitas-michigan when they go. OUCH. Reality looms over my head that God may not have us move to nyc this fall. That really hurts me to think about, and it saddens me that I might not be there this fall. I do trust th...