Daily thoughts and experiences from my mind and life.
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Full Days…
Dec 6th
So I didn’t really get off to a good start this morning. Basically my whole sleeping schedule has been thrown off. Tomorrow I will be forcing myself to get up when the alarm goes off. The day turned out pretty excellent however. The Bible study I had with a couple of youth guys really revealed a wrong attitude I had about the weekend coming up. I find it can be frustrating to see people treat others with such disrespect, especially when we are talking about Christians. I guess it is easy to hold Christians up to a higher standard. This is right and wrong. While we should expect Christian to be doing what’s right in the eyes of the Lord, we also need to show them the same level of grace that we have through Christ. Without God’s grace where would any of us be. This is back to the hexagon in the Life Shapes, “forgive us our sins, as we forgive those who sin against us”, it can be so easy to forget this, shame on us (on me).
Youth praise team practice went really well tonight. I think I’ve got a plan that is going to work to do music in the fellowship hall, we’ll see. We’ll be taking a break next week, then have a practice of Christmas music to lead for the Christmas party.
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Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring forth.
Nov 29th
(Proverbs 27:1-3) What a day today was. Surprises at every turn. So this morning I used my “snow blower” for the first time. I’m sorry to say (Mom & Dad 
), that that thing is not much more than a gas-powered shovel. I think I could have do it by hand faster. Well, can’t complain about the price I guess. Got to work with an unplowed parking lot, but behold there was 1 clearly open spot for me to park, yeah! It was nice to have gotten up at 5:30 again. I was feel pretty good today, pretty much back to my old self.
Well after continuous looks at the UPS package tracking it appeared that I wouldn’t get my new PowerBook until tomorrow. Well wouldn’t you know it, I got back from lunch and there sitting on my desk was the box, simply amazing. I began the process of trying to get all my stuff I had on the old machine onto the new one. It went ok, but I did have a hang up that I had to resolve by doing a system update/install. It sort of appeared like the system has 10.3.7 installed on it rather than the 10.4 it came with. Well it all got resolved and my system is pretty much back to where I had things before. All my apps seem to be running pretty good. I’m getting used to this new machine nicely.
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Another Quick One…If That’s Possible
Nov 17th
Well, the goal here is to keep it short so I can get to bed. So today was a pretty good day. I really feel like I got some things done at work.
I’ve been getting some very encouraging words from many, I thank you all again. As I’ve thought even more about this topic of relationships I’m finding myself torn on a fine line between expecting God to do all the work and taking it all into my own hands. I think a big issue is motivation. While it’s not bad to look elsewhere for social interact, thinking about not having much for single people to hang out with, my motivation is to find my future wife. This really needs to be left to God. Seeking out a possible relationship on eHarmony
, or any other service like it, is this wrong? This seems like one of those grey areas. Well, even though this post is intended to be short I’ve already spent too much time thinking about this. Let’s get on with the rest of the day.
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Change Me…Sanctus Real
Nov 16th
Did I change your mind, with what I said last night?
Did I break your heart, by straying so far?
From what you have in mind, for my life?Would you change me, from who I’ve been lately?
‘Cause I know I’m nothing without you.Did my words betray, the patience I once claimed?
Can’t you see it in my face? I need your grace.Would you change me, from who I’ve been lately?
‘Cause I know I’m nothing without you.
Would you save me, from the way I’ve been lately?
‘Cause I can’t see living without you.Would you speak to me?
Show me what I need.