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Saturday, May 13, 2006 12:56 A.M.
I attended the community college's commencement ceremony tonight (last night, I guess), after skipping it last year. LOL! It was quite an interesting thing. I would have felt awkward going last year since I had no intention of participating in the ceremony even though I was graduating; but this year was different, since I wasn't one of the graduates.
One of the things the speaker said was along the lines of "obesity, alcohol, and drugs are not positive things." Such a lumping of things together made me laugh.
He wasn't at all overweight, though...one of the tiniest guys ever (and one of the ones most honored by the community college--I think every event I've attended has featured something honoring him).
And tomorrow I'll attend a home school graduation ceremony...which should be a great reminder of my own "graduation" nearly six years ago. I should be "old" by now, but I'm not. LOL! Seriously, though, the real question is whether I've matured since that time...occasionally, I think I have; other times, I'm really not sure. Sunday, Mr. O. (our Sunday school teacher) said he highly recommended journaling--"because you'll only remember the stupid things you did. If you have a journal, you can look back and see how godly you used to be." He talked about what goes on in our inner lives where other people can't see us...and how it is good to be able to remember that. We weren't really discussing that for Sunday school, though. He just randomly mentioned that, I guess.
Too bad I won't be in Sunday school Sunday. Oh, well.
At least I'll get to play with some babies, hopefully, after doing some music with the first through fourth grades.
Susan D. wants me to take her class while she does children's church this summer. She talked to me about it on Sunday morning and then called me during the middle of this week. I've really been praying about it and I'm still not 100% sure what to say. A part of me definitely wishes that she could just get someone else, but at the same time...why? I have the opportunity to invest in the lives of three little children...it wouldn't be hard work, it wouldn't be a huge time commitment, I wouldn't be permanently leaving Sunday school, and I'd still get to see everyone I normally see in Sunday school...so...we'll see, though.
Not much else is going on, I guess. Malachi is going to be deployed after all, it turns out...I guess I probably hadn't mentioned any of that on here. I don't recall. He got back from Cuba right at the beginning of spring break. They were supposed to be deployed to WA on May 1st, but that was either cancelled or delayed...he was hoping cancelled. But it was just delayed until the middle of June. So Chris will get to see him during his 96 (or so) hour leave here at the end of this month, but then she'll be off to summer school for several weeks...I assume he'll get to come and visit later in the summer, hopefully before she leaves for the fall semester. I doubt they'll set any records, but it's going to be a long time till they're actually living together, I guess. They'll celebrate their first anniversary (hopefully together) this August. Can you believe that the twentieth will mark nine months since their wedding? I suppose Christina can, since both of her siblings are celebrating their first anniversaries this year.
But anyway...time flies.
Saturday, May 13, 2006 5:13 P.M.
While I was at the home school graduation today, I heard about this. I guess the guy that was fatally shot was a home school dad. Someone told me that he had four kids who were eight and under and that they think his wife (now widow) might be expecting their fifth. Definitely a matter for prayer...
Road rage. Sounds like a bad thing. Sin? People have definitely been hurt by this. I didn't start thinking about these issues because of the situation, but it does remind me of something I have been pondering lately. Our natural response to this situation is, pretty reasonably, I'd say, to feel sorry that these guys allowed themselves to develop such feelings...and sorry that the results were fatal. Like I said, I think that's a reasonable response.
That's my response to about everything I see that's "bad." "That's horrible!" "Look who they hurt!"
But isn't that true of all sin? Isn't it true that sin hurts people every time? And sin is definitely a problem in our world. We've talked about redemption recently in Sunday school, though, and the cool thing is that God can take the sin in our lives and not only cleanse us from it but also redeem the consequences and use them for our good and His glory. We have the opportunity to pray for this family that God would bring good from this entire situation...
And we have that opportunity every time we see "bad things happen." Through Christ's death, redemption is available...
Saturday, May 13, 2006 12:56 A.M.
I attended the community college's commencement ceremony tonight (last night, I guess), after skipping it last year. LOL! It was quite an interesting thing. I would have felt awkward going last year since I had no intention of participating in the ceremony even though I was graduating; but this year was different, since I wasn't one of the graduates.
One of the things the speaker said was along the lines of "obesity, alcohol, and drugs are not positive things." Such a lumping of things together made me laugh.
He wasn't at all overweight, though...one of the tiniest guys ever (and one of the ones most honored by the community college--I think every event I've attended has featured something honoring him). And tomorrow I'll attend a home school graduation ceremony...which should be a great reminder of my own "graduation" nearly six years ago. I should be "old" by now, but I'm not. LOL! Seriously, though, the real question is whether I've matured since that time...occasionally, I think I have; other times, I'm really not sure. Sunday, Mr. O. (our Sunday school teacher) said he highly recommended journaling--"because you'll only remember the stupid things you did. If you have a journal, you can look back and see how godly you used to be." He talked about what goes on in our inner lives where other people can't see us...and how it is good to be able to remember that. We weren't really discussing that for Sunday school, though. He just randomly mentioned that, I guess.
Too bad I won't be in Sunday school Sunday. Oh, well.
At least I'll get to play with some babies, hopefully, after doing some music with the first through fourth grades.Susan D. wants me to take her class while she does children's church this summer. She talked to me about it on Sunday morning and then called me during the middle of this week. I've really been praying about it and I'm still not 100% sure what to say. A part of me definitely wishes that she could just get someone else, but at the same time...why? I have the opportunity to invest in the lives of three little children...it wouldn't be hard work, it wouldn't be a huge time commitment, I wouldn't be permanently leaving Sunday school, and I'd still get to see everyone I normally see in Sunday school...so...we'll see, though.
Not much else is going on, I guess. Malachi is going to be deployed after all, it turns out...I guess I probably hadn't mentioned any of that on here. I don't recall. He got back from Cuba right at the beginning of spring break. They were supposed to be deployed to WA on May 1st, but that was either cancelled or delayed...he was hoping cancelled. But it was just delayed until the middle of June. So Chris will get to see him during his 96 (or so) hour leave here at the end of this month, but then she'll be off to summer school for several weeks...I assume he'll get to come and visit later in the summer, hopefully before she leaves for the fall semester. I doubt they'll set any records, but it's going to be a long time till they're actually living together, I guess. They'll celebrate their first anniversary (hopefully together) this August. Can you believe that the twentieth will mark nine months since their wedding? I suppose Christina can, since both of her siblings are celebrating their first anniversaries this year.
But anyway...time flies.
Saturday, May 13, 2006 5:13 P.M.
While I was at the home school graduation today, I heard about this. I guess the guy that was fatally shot was a home school dad. Someone told me that he had four kids who were eight and under and that they think his wife (now widow) might be expecting their fifth. Definitely a matter for prayer...
Road rage. Sounds like a bad thing. Sin? People have definitely been hurt by this. I didn't start thinking about these issues because of the situation, but it does remind me of something I have been pondering lately. Our natural response to this situation is, pretty reasonably, I'd say, to feel sorry that these guys allowed themselves to develop such feelings...and sorry that the results were fatal. Like I said, I think that's a reasonable response.
That's my response to about everything I see that's "bad." "That's horrible!" "Look who they hurt!"
But isn't that true of all sin? Isn't it true that sin hurts people every time? And sin is definitely a problem in our world. We've talked about redemption recently in Sunday school, though, and the cool thing is that God can take the sin in our lives and not only cleanse us from it but also redeem the consequences and use them for our good and His glory. We have the opportunity to pray for this family that God would bring good from this entire situation...
And we have that opportunity every time we see "bad things happen." Through Christ's death, redemption is available...
