{"id":5264,"date":"2010-11-15T04:35:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-15T04:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=5264"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:36:27","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:36:27","slug":"day-8-blue-like-jazz-give","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=5264","title":{"rendered":"Day 8 – Blue Like Jazz (Give)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Before the Dare…<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n

Tonight we had a great opportunity to gather at OMS headquarters at Beka’s invitation.\u00a0 All but one of our\u00a0mission team\u00a0to Haiti was able to make it.\u00a0 We had a great meal together and then toured the OMS facility before hearing from Beka about her journey with God.\u00a0 At the end of the evening, her parents led us all in prayer for her.\u00a0 I wished we didn’t have school tomorrow so that we could all just hang out together for several more hours.\u00a0 Responsibilities stink!<\/p>\n\n\n

I took the opportunity to ride with my new little brother, Todd, on the way to Greenwood this evening.\u00a0 We really haven’t had a chance to catch up to any extent since we got back from Haiti.\u00a0 Todd was my roommate for most of that week.\u00a0 He’s the young, adventurous type.\u00a0\u00a0Our team had the chance to\u00a0chill for a day on a gorgeous beach with some of the missionaries from the compound.\u00a0 When lunch was served, one of the plates was a whole fish – nose to tail.\u00a0 I dared Todd to eat one\u00a0of the eyeballs with me.\u00a0 I was hoping he would turn me down.\u00a0 He didn’t.\u00a0\u00a0So I couldn’t just call him a wimp and then laugh the whole thing off … I had to go through with it.<\/p>\n\n\n

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During the Dare…<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n

I was not expecting it to be crunchy, so I was a bit disgusted … as you can tell from my facial expression.\u00a0 \u00a0There was a small, hard, pearl-like globe at the center which I took to be the lens.\u00a0 I cleaned up this “pearl”, stashed it in my camera case and brought it back to Indiana.\u00a0 It was my one souvenir that held the most fascination for my four kids once I got back home!<\/p>\n\n\n

Anyway, on the ride to Greenwood tonight, I gave Todd my copy of Donald Miller’s “Blue Like Jazz” (subtitled “Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality”).\u00a0 I know … it’s easy to give away books.\u00a0 I’ll need to find something a bit more challenging this week.\u00a0 Melissa says she wants the house ready to put on the market in a few weeks.\u00a0 Yikes! Todd, let me know when you get around to reading the book… I’ll be curious to hear your impressions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tonight we had a great opportunity to gather at OMS headquarters at Beka’s invitation.\u00a0 All but one of our\u00a0mission team\u00a0to Haiti was able to make it.\u00a0 We had a great meal together and then toured the OMS facility before hearing from Beka about her journey with God.\u00a0 At the end of the evening, her parents […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5265,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5264"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5267,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5264\/revisions\/5267"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}