I’m back home from a quick trip to California. Some of you prayed; thank you. A few observations:<\/p>\n
1. My first impression when I got out of the airport was how beautiful southern California was. I was looking at some very green hills. I haven’t seen that since I last left Texas. <\/p>\n
2. I have some wonderful friends. The Lord has blessed me with some people who really care for me and my family, and that constantly brightened my time there.<\/p>\n
3. The two questions everyone asked were: how is your family? what are you going to do when you finish?<\/p>\n
4. Chapel went well. At least I didn’t hear any bodies slam on the bleachers from fainting. I was not real nervous when speaking, but I can’t say I was comfortable either. I prefer a well-lit classroom with 10-40 students I know to a darkened gymnasium with hundreds I don’t. I received a very encouraging comment via an IBEX parent. At some point in the future, the messages will be online here<\/a>.<\/p>\n 5. I sat in on one class. It was the best lecture on Job I’ve ever heard. The most astonishing thing to me was that while I understood only a portion, the students in the class seemed to be tracking very closely.<\/p>\n 6. I brought three books but had no time to read besides the plane rides. I finished What the Best College Teachers Do<\/em> on the way there and read a commentary on Jonah on the way back. I may write more on the first title later.<\/p>\n 7. I listened to Andrew Peterson exclusively while driving around. <\/p>\n 8. I had dinner with a Christian family with 8 children. It was absolutely inspiring.<\/p>\n 9. The answers for question #3 above are: good and teach.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’m back home from a quick trip to California. Some of you prayed; thank you. A few observations: 1. My first impression when I got out of the airport was how beautiful southern California was. I was looking at some very green hills. I haven’t seen that since I last left Texas. 2. I have\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}