Today was Sunday.
Larry Purdue today in Sunday school said something about people in the Bible that knew God's acts but not his ways. This triggered the thought in me that people sometimes want God to be their need meeter but they don't want to take time to get to know Him. The thought that hit me hard is this: God is a PERSON. Wow! If you want to love someone then you get to know them as a person. You find out who they are and you ask them questions. Sweet!
I challenged my worship team this morning in our devotional to use their faith for something special this week. It could be something that has annoyed you for a while or it could be some situation you are confronting. I have been convicted by Jesus words where he said to his disciples that could not cast a demon out, "You of little faith and perverse generation. If you had faith the size of the grain of a mustard seed you would say to this mountain move and it would cast itself into the sea." Obviously I don't use my faith for much of anything drastic. I need to get this show on the road and stop being wimpy.
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Sunday, February 8, 2009
Monday, September 15, 2008
September 15, 2008
Today was Monday, our first day back at school after Hurricane Gustav.
I went jogging this morning without my contacts in. I saw a dog outside but I could not tell if it was Midnight or not. The clock on my MP3 player was 10 minutes faster than the clocks inside the house so I wasn't quite sure what to believe.
I was tired today after getting only about 4-5 hours of sleep last night. My Spanish II class of 25 high schoolers was talkative today. I was patient with them even though their mouths needed some bridles on them. I took off 5 points of participation on four students.
I learned how to play the song "Call Me Old Fashioned" on the keyboard at home tonight.
At 5:10 PM I visited Dr. Wolverton, my chiropractor. He did a great job as always on my back.
LA state is intercepting some of my payments to the U.S. Treasury. I owe LA only about $1000 now and Federal only about $400. I was trying to pay of the Federal taxes first but LA is getting in the way. I just hope they are keeping books right for me. They only send out a yearly statement so I never know what they are doing unless I pick up the phone and stay on hold for a while.
Matthew ate two pieces of pizza for lunch and almost threw them up the next period in P.E. He said to me, "They worked me harder today than you."
We had family devotions and read I Corinthians from The Message Bible. The best part I thought was this: "Just think--you don't need a thing, you've got it all! All God's gifts are right in front of you as you wait expectantly for our Master Jesus to arrive on the scene for the Finale."
I like this because if you realize you don't need another thing to make you content, you can be content with what you have. Mr. Purdue mentioned in the finance class that I missed, of which he briefed me on later that all the advertising we are flooded with on TV, Internet and billboards teaches us to be discontent so we will buy what they are selling.
I had an idea to start a word processor file on my computer today called blessings, in which I would keep a running list of all of my blessings and keep adding to it.
Another verse I read this evening was from II Corinthians 13. "We don't just put up with our limitations; we celebrate them."
I went jogging this morning without my contacts in. I saw a dog outside but I could not tell if it was Midnight or not. The clock on my MP3 player was 10 minutes faster than the clocks inside the house so I wasn't quite sure what to believe.
I was tired today after getting only about 4-5 hours of sleep last night. My Spanish II class of 25 high schoolers was talkative today. I was patient with them even though their mouths needed some bridles on them. I took off 5 points of participation on four students.
I learned how to play the song "Call Me Old Fashioned" on the keyboard at home tonight.
At 5:10 PM I visited Dr. Wolverton, my chiropractor. He did a great job as always on my back.
LA state is intercepting some of my payments to the U.S. Treasury. I owe LA only about $1000 now and Federal only about $400. I was trying to pay of the Federal taxes first but LA is getting in the way. I just hope they are keeping books right for me. They only send out a yearly statement so I never know what they are doing unless I pick up the phone and stay on hold for a while.
Matthew ate two pieces of pizza for lunch and almost threw them up the next period in P.E. He said to me, "They worked me harder today than you."
We had family devotions and read I Corinthians from The Message Bible. The best part I thought was this: "Just think--you don't need a thing, you've got it all! All God's gifts are right in front of you as you wait expectantly for our Master Jesus to arrive on the scene for the Finale."
I like this because if you realize you don't need another thing to make you content, you can be content with what you have. Mr. Purdue mentioned in the finance class that I missed, of which he briefed me on later that all the advertising we are flooded with on TV, Internet and billboards teaches us to be discontent so we will buy what they are selling.
I had an idea to start a word processor file on my computer today called blessings, in which I would keep a running list of all of my blessings and keep adding to it.
Another verse I read this evening was from II Corinthians 13. "We don't just put up with our limitations; we celebrate them."
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