Back to our usual routine

I finally got through all of my email and am caught up at work! Finally.

We had a great time watching Micah on Monday night -- we had to take Maggie for a walk to the park. Micah decided to give Maggie his corn on the cob, which Maggie totally devoured. I had no idea she'd eat the cob, too.

On Thursday night we drove up to San Francisco for a debate on the topic, "Is God Good?" It was really a dialogue investigating the problem of evil and suffering in our world. I loved it. The debate was respectful and really helped me to understand the topic and the problems both sides have explaining evil and sparked lots of interesting conversation.

The reception beforehand had me fascinated. I was expecting an "older" crowd for some reason. The room was on the 15th floor of the Merchants building in the heart of the Financial District. It was totally wood panelled with beautiful old chandeliers and an ornate ceiling. And when we got there for the pre-event reception, the place was packed with twenty and thirty somethings, all holding a glass of wine and standing in groups of 3-5 people engaged in loud energetic conversation, talking, laughing, introducing people to each other. I met Jeff (an atheist starting his own Green business) who is recently married to a Christian and for the first time is open to exploring the faith. He was quite the connector -- and introduce me to people from the British embassy who work in international finance between the US and Britain. (Quite an interesting time to be working in finance.) And I met a prof at San Francisco State (a Christian) who is researching happiness. Did you know that research shows that money doesn't make people happy! And it is not true that poor people are happy...often they are not happy because they've been oppressed and have no path to improving their life. His research and work was fascinating. Kevin went and got us some seats and met some interesting people as well.

Afterwards, we decided to have dinner in the City before heading home. We had a really great evening....and now we have the problem of evil all sorted out (well sort of).