Coincidences and opportunities

So one year ago almost exactly, I was sitting in Prince Rupert feeling really sorry for myself. I'd been sitting there for almost three weeks, waiting for the Herring spawn so I could get out of that town as fast as possible. I was living on a boat with two yahoos who couldn't construct a proper sentence, and I was feeling miserable.

Finally, I picked a church out of the phonebook and wound up going to a little church which had an interim pastor named Paul Zalinko. A 15-minute conversation I had with him turned into one of the major stepping-stones in my life, bringing me to where I am today. I was thinking about ministry before talking to him, but that conversation was the first time I seriously thought about it.

fast-forward to last Friday, and I get an email from Paul saying he's been living in Abbotsford since September, and wondering if I want to have supper with him and his family? Well, I'm a student, of course I do.

So that was tonight, and it was a terrific time of catching up and talking about church and post-modernity and family and etc. And it looks like I may possibly get a job out of it too!

Paul owns two HUGE bouncy castles, and has a plan to hit all the major festivals on Vancouver Island during July and August. He's got one guy lined up, and a second 'maybe', but if the maybe falls through, I've probably got the spot... and it's good money. Really good. I'd be working weekends, and get to go camping and other fun summery stuff during the weekdays, with the possibility of maybe working one day a week and a still-secret location.

Anyhow, if it works out, I'll make some decent coin, have a blast of a summer, ON THE ISLAND, and still have the flexibility I need to get back to school in time. Does it get any better than that? Needless to say, I'm pretty stoked. I really hope it works out, because it will be a blast.