Books in progress outside of class:

Don't Waste Your Life - Bible study book
The Way of the Wild Heart

Groans

Crushed by the sadness from my brothers' sins,
Cracked like an egg, spirit rushing from my opening,
I'm hoping in Christ to send His Spirit flowing in,
It's all I can be assured of that I have life in just knowing Him.
Or that it's He who knows me, and I am saved by His grace and mercy,
Surely, I am not worthy

O man....who are you to not be joyful nor have thanks for that which the Lord God has done?


Since when was your will the standard by which the world ought operate?

If it's not, what right have you to complain in any circumstance?

Give thanks!

I'm about me...but "I want" to be about you....it's not about what I want....Your Word is true.

I know that Your will is at work, all the time, for all time.
And yet my behavior changes, and my attitudes align
To how my mind accepts or rejects Your will divine,
Though I can't thwart Your purposes, I'm still asserting mine,
Help me fight back from this self-decline,
Help me unravel the noose of my selfish twine
That I've wrapped around Your Word, trying to make it my shrine
Where if my imagined world isn't preached, it's gotta be a crime.
Break me free from myself, but to Yourself, I climb
Though, if I had the right motives I'd simply fall in line.

I would say make me Yours, but You already did,
And so I'll pray help me not to fall in foolishness like I'm only a kid.
There's so much greater joy when Your glory stays put,
That's what I want to want, may You be understood.




You give what we want when we least expect,
When we're no longer sure if what we wanted is best,
To that I attest, and to Your feet confess,
Restore me to Yourself, mend this broken dress.
May You increase, and may I be less
Filled with myself, so Your filling is full,
That inside my heart abides the Holy Spirit, now I'm a restored soul.

Final numbers

600 pages read (including 3 books - fully - and 4 books - portion),
3 episodes of "John Adams",
8 movies watched,
85 hours slept (guesstimate),
8 hours of TKD,
4 hours spent 'gamin',
3 hours in mi iglesia,
10-15 hours working on homework
17 meals
4 theological discussions
1 application filled-out
(other statistics from this past week are not yet, nor ever will be, compiled)

Even if he wasn't a Christian...his understanding certainly was for one...hopefully he will participate...regardless...we can see some truth here

The Epitaph of Young Benjamin Franklin

The body of
B. Franklin, Printer
(Like the Cover of an Old Book
Its Contents torn Out
And Stript of its Lettering and Gilding)
Lies Here, Food for Worms.
But the Work shall not be Lost;
For it will (as he Believ'd) Appear once More
In a New and More Elegant Edition
Revised and Corrected
By the Author.