Oakhurst Library

And I almost forgot. Have fun at Catalina, all my UCLA friends. Grace and peace to you, don’t forget to call me and tell me about Mark Study. If you’d like to write me:

Liz Heim – Staff

45800 Calvin Crest Road

Oakhurst, CA 93644

This is where I will be until August 14 or so. If you give me your address, I will most certainly write to you. I really like writing letters. Email is fine too but I won’t check that very often, maybe once every week and a half-two weeks.

For those of you not at Catalina, or Calvin Crest: I love you, Jesus loves you, take heart that He’s got a plan for you. I’m slowly learning that my worrying is irrelevant and that God always takes care of me.

Procrastinating on the paper. It’s not that it’s uninteresting or even frustrating, there’s just a lot of material to wade through and some painful subjects to address. The plight of women immigrating to France is both complex and challenging. At some basic level a part of me just wants to yell at the top of my lungs that it is unjust to treat people as less than who they are – a human. But you can’t exactly write a paper essentially stating no one can be treated as inferior because they are God’s children, unique and innately created to love.

So I’m sitting in the craft condo here at Calvin Crest Conferences, and it’s lovely. It’s quite green due to the unseasonable amount of rain. I feel like I’ve been refreshed, and blessed beyond measure. Everything I see here is beautiful – is it possible that you can see too much beauty? I’m sleeping soundly, breathing deeply, working hard, and learning eagerly. I feel like there’s so much to be learned from my team, from creation. It’s sad to look at a plant and not know what it is, what it does.

I went to the Oakhurst Library this morning (which was entirely inadequate for what I needed to do) but it reminded me of how I have forgotten how I love to read about everything and anything. For a while I just perused the titles, thinking about what each had to offer and then remembering that my purpose for being there was to research for a paper. I have lost my appetite for learning, isn’t that sad? I hope that God was just refreshing me this morning and reminding me that He’s gifted me with higher education.

And then I drank a 42-ounce milkshake, in keeping with tradition of staff in the legacy created by a very cool Sherwood Squire.

~ by Liz on June 11, 2005.