Another One Bites the Dust (and other hodge podge)

September 29th, 2008 by Jaybrams

(read the bold for the highlights, i’m all over the place here)

I didn’t forget about Old Music Friday, I was busier than I expected. I’ll work on the draft over the next couple of days and post it this Friday…

A week ago Saturday night i finished up World Civ II. Things are starting to roll pretty quickly again. I love the accelerated class format… it’s over almost as fast as it starts. Business Math closes out this week, and tonight is week two of Lit. Survey. I don’t mind these “basic” classes, but I’ll be glad when they’re done.

I appreciated the fact that BS Math spent a lot of time looking at personal finances and budgeting. It’s stuff right out of Dave Ramsey’s camp, which is a good thing. It was great to see all of the encouraging wisdom from various students and to find some clarity concerning where I believe God wants to take us in our finances. On the other hand, from a human perspective, the portion of our project that had us looking at our school loans scared the crap out of me. I have to hold on to the truth that God has laid something on my heart and I have to show myself willing to pursue it with wisdom and vigor, two things that sometimes conflict with each other.

Seabourn helped Friday, letting me vent about my own self-doubt and shortcomings in my pursuit of God’s will on my life. … I guess that’s all I’ve got to say about that.

We’re still looking for a place to call home (church). It’s been a while, and it was not the last place we were members at. I like so much about the church we’ve been visiting regularly, but I have my reservations still… a lot of that comes from deep experiences in similar churches and my own personal feelings about todays culture, Christian and otherwise. I know we’ll never find a perfect church (*unless i start one on my own… hmmmmm*), but somewhere there is a church that will strike me as “home” again. And if not, that’s okay too; I can’t let that be an excuse for inaction… I have to make the best of what is in front of us as a family and be available when God, for some unknown reason, chooses to use us as vessels despite our imperfections.

Thoughts coming this week:
UnChristian - Initial thoughts or full review, depending on how much of it I read (read 40 pages last night).
Lincoln Brewster - Today is the Day Review. Let me just say, if you don’t know who the best guitarist in Christian music is these days, you haven’t listened to Lincoln enough.
A preview of whatever I spend my two 15% off coupons at Barnes and Nobles on.
Old Music Friday

Unless anyone has something better they want me to talk about?

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