Drunken Mystic

Greetings to all from Atlanta!

Things have been going relatively well here at the Mooney household.

First of all, my last day of teaching at Snellville Middle School was at the end of February. I’ve been applying to other jobs in the area, and I’ve even interviewed at a couple different places. This has been a completely different experience for me. Since I’ve dealt primarily in the field of education, dressing up and going for interviews in the “real world” has been interesting to say the least. I have an interview at a local school this evening that I hope will bear some fruit, giving me a job with less hours but still working with kids and teaching, mostly tutoring.

It has been a stressful time for Becca and I, as you can imagine, but God has really provided during this time, as He always does. We have a great community of believers here that have been incredibly supportive of my craziness.

Becca is still tutoring German and hoping to find more opportunities to do that. She really enjoys getting back into something she loves and feels good about.

The house church we attend on Friday nights has been developing more and more into the family atmosphere Becca and I have desired it to be. Even though Becca finished cooking on a regular basis, others have seen the benefit of it and have taken up the responsibility of filling and providing a meal for everyone before the meeting. It has been good. They are some precious people. Gina, my sister, and her husband, Ben, also have a sweet house church that we attend from time to time on Sunday evenings.

Over the last few months, a few young men have been getting together on Saturday morning for breakfast for fellowship. We have been going through the book Celebration of Discipline by Richard Foster. The book is excellent and has led to some great discussions on Saturday mornings. Sometimes Micah even goes with me. He likes hangin’ with the guys.

Micah has been doing great. He’s had a couple ear infections since Christmas, but he’s been much better over the last few weeks, which has made us glad. He is turning into such a little man. He is talking constantly, and every time you turn around he’s talking even more. He knows all the letters and numbers. We’re working on the colors. He communicates extremely well verbally now, even putting words and phrases together on his own. He just turned 18 months. He still loves Elmo, Dora the Explorer, Veggie Tales and Clifford. He knows complete lines from the Veggie Tales theme song … which is pretty amazing.

While having some time not working, when I’m not looking for a job or interviewing, I’ve been seriously committed to writing. This has been mostly on my latest book but also my blog. The result has been that I have finished, in the last couple weeks, a book that I’ve been writing for the last two years! I’ve been working on it for so long, that it came as a shock to finish it so quickly. But it also was further confirmation that if I can give some time to my writing, then good things will happen. The book is called The Better Way: A Case for Love. I am currently doing a first revision and will be shopping it around to publishers over the next few months. I’ve also considered self-publishing, but that is a big project. We’ll see.

At the beggining of March, we had three house churches get together and had a Relationship Round Table. It was basically a time when people got to write questions down and the group shared wisdom on relationships as we pulled the questions randomly out of a jar. We are planning on having another one in late April, but there are some scheduling conflicts now, so we’ll see what happens.

Becca and I began to look at using our frequent flyer miles to go to India again this summer, but it turns out it takes more to go to India than Korea. We were assuming an international flight was an international flight and they were all the same … alas, we were wrong. Becca has just enough and I’m a few thousand miles short. If anyone feels that God would have them donate some miles to help me get the ticket, that would be very cool. Either way, I’m sure God will provide a way if we are to go.

Thanks for visiting my blog and checking out the Mooney Report! God bless you all! We miss many of you dearly.

Britt, Becca, and Micah Mooney, Missionaries to the World!

This entry was posted on Tuesday, March 20th, 2007 at 8:03 am and is filed under mooney report. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.