Last night I was weary in my soul. I spoke, taught, preached for four hours, first at 8:00 am to the woman’s leadership class, then I drove to Tangent and preached the sermon in the Sunday morning service at Agape Family Fellowship, then I drove back to Jefferson and taught my Men’s Leadership class at 1:00 pm and then my leadership II class at 3:00 pm, and then I drove back to Agape to have a meeting with key leaders and Elders. Then I drove home and arrived in time for dinner at 8:00 pm. Yesterday I had numerous hard conversations with different people about their life. At the conclusion of the day last night I was weary in my soul.

Today I went crabbing with a friend. I went crabbing about 15 years ago but I don’t remember much of what happened then. Today we put his boat in the water at the Siletz River Bay and put out 6 Crabb Potts with chicken parts inside each trap. We spread them out in the bay and after waiting for 45 minutes we pulled each one up, took out the male Crabb’s that were legal limit in size, and threw the rest back in the water. We would then drop the Crabb pot back into the water and go to the next one and check it. It was a nice day on the water with a light breeze blowing, and occasionally it would rain a bit.

I woke up this morning with the same weary soul that I went to bed with, but I noticed that as we were busy trying to capture crabs the weariness went away and was replaced with joy and a very real feeling of contentment in life and a very healthy soul. It is amazing to me how therapeutic God’s creation is and how effective it is in making me understand how wonderful life really is.