This might just be a blog for the sake of blogging. I think I'll try to do a regular post once a month or so.
I was listening to Nichole Nordeman's "Finally Free" and thinking about the freedom that comes in Christ. 20 years after becoming a Christian I still feel so bound up by personality and idiosyncracies and experiences. I've always struggled to find the meaning, you know? Which traits are there for good and which for not so good and what can I learn from every experience. And to some, that may seem sort of coldly analytical, but I know myself. Though I develop callouses every now and then, and trip over my pride at times, I can say that I am teachable.
Of course, being teachable doesn't mean I always learn my lesson.
I think that the freedom that comes with knowing Christ is His grace. You can screw up, and it's okay, because the forgiveness is right there for the asking. And you don't have to agonize and over-analyze every time you slip up (my problem) because all that is just part of the bondage of sin--from which you are free. Learn your lesson, repent, change, move on. Strength to strength.
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My birthday is exactly one month from today. 25! Lower insurance rates! Woo! I think I want to go to Sea World. I've lived here 3 years now and have never gone. And Sea World is so much more FUN than Six Flags! Yeah, definitely Sea World.
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The Wisconsin trip was a blast, though I must admit that having to wrap up in blankets in July is redonkulous. I expected it to be a little warmer than that! Savannah was a wreck when we got home. She was so tired she couldn't even garner the proper enthusiasm. Just knocked out for like 24 hours. And she's got this strange cough/sneeze thing going on that I think she picked up at the kennel. It's getting better. John and I are both having sinus issues, though--I'm pretty sure it's the house we live in. We've lived there for 8 months now and the only reprieve I've had from sinus problems was the week we were in Wisconsin!
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7.09.2009
and if the Son has set us free...
This might just be a blog for the sake of blogging. I think I'll try to do a regular post once a month or so.
I was listening to Nichole Nordeman's "Finally Free" and thinking about the freedom that comes in Christ. 20 years after becoming a Christian I still feel so bound up by personality and idiosyncracies and experiences. I've always struggled to find the meaning, you know? Which traits are there for good and which for not so good and what can I learn from every experience. And to some, that may seem sort of coldly analytical, but I know myself. Though I develop callouses every now and then, and trip over my pride at times, I can say that I am teachable.
Of course, being teachable doesn't mean I always learn my lesson.
I think that the freedom that comes with knowing Christ is His grace. You can screw up, and it's okay, because the forgiveness is right there for the asking. And you don't have to agonize and over-analyze every time you slip up (my problem) because all that is just part of the bondage of sin--from which you are free. Learn your lesson, repent, change, move on. Strength to strength.
*****
My birthday is exactly one month from today. 25! Lower insurance rates! Woo! I think I want to go to Sea World. I've lived here 3 years now and have never gone. And Sea World is so much more FUN than Six Flags! Yeah, definitely Sea World.
*****
The Wisconsin trip was a blast, though I must admit that having to wrap up in blankets in July is redonkulous. I expected it to be a little warmer than that! Savannah was a wreck when we got home. She was so tired she couldn't even garner the proper enthusiasm. Just knocked out for like 24 hours. And she's got this strange cough/sneeze thing going on that I think she picked up at the kennel. It's getting better. John and I are both having sinus issues, though--I'm pretty sure it's the house we live in. We've lived there for 8 months now and the only reprieve I've had from sinus problems was the week we were in Wisconsin!
I was listening to Nichole Nordeman's "Finally Free" and thinking about the freedom that comes in Christ. 20 years after becoming a Christian I still feel so bound up by personality and idiosyncracies and experiences. I've always struggled to find the meaning, you know? Which traits are there for good and which for not so good and what can I learn from every experience. And to some, that may seem sort of coldly analytical, but I know myself. Though I develop callouses every now and then, and trip over my pride at times, I can say that I am teachable.
Of course, being teachable doesn't mean I always learn my lesson.
I think that the freedom that comes with knowing Christ is His grace. You can screw up, and it's okay, because the forgiveness is right there for the asking. And you don't have to agonize and over-analyze every time you slip up (my problem) because all that is just part of the bondage of sin--from which you are free. Learn your lesson, repent, change, move on. Strength to strength.
*****
My birthday is exactly one month from today. 25! Lower insurance rates! Woo! I think I want to go to Sea World. I've lived here 3 years now and have never gone. And Sea World is so much more FUN than Six Flags! Yeah, definitely Sea World.
*****
The Wisconsin trip was a blast, though I must admit that having to wrap up in blankets in July is redonkulous. I expected it to be a little warmer than that! Savannah was a wreck when we got home. She was so tired she couldn't even garner the proper enthusiasm. Just knocked out for like 24 hours. And she's got this strange cough/sneeze thing going on that I think she picked up at the kennel. It's getting better. John and I are both having sinus issues, though--I'm pretty sure it's the house we live in. We've lived there for 8 months now and the only reprieve I've had from sinus problems was the week we were in Wisconsin!
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