a contrast

May was a busy month, hence the blogging hiatus. My apologies.

I’m now kicking off my summer internship in Silver Spring, Maryland—where gas and milk sell for the same price, $3.89 per gallon. I’m interning with a small Christian Reformed congregation here, just a few miles north of Washington, DC, and I’ll be sharing the preaching and other pastoral duties with the current pastor for ten weeks. I’m excited about it—though the surroundings are nearly the complete opposite of last summer, which you may remember I spent on a small farm in Ontario. The farm was tucked away down a long narrow lane, and my summer cottage was nestled even farther back in a row of trees with a pasture and Trina the Cow to keep me company.

This summer I'm living on the second floor of the only three story building in this next picture—right above Sign-A-Rama and next door to Bigg Wolf Video, and outside my window are seven lanes of nonstop busyness.