I have never kept a New Year's Resolution & I highly doubt this year is gonna be any different. Therefore, I'm not making any New Year's Resolutions.
What I am doing is resolving to do something that is within my capability to accomplish. Let me rephrase that, I'm not resolving to do it , I'm just gonna do. I have decided to do it.
In 2k10 I'm gonna be the best Eli that I can be. That menas many things on many levels to me. How that will play over the next year will surface in various forms. I got ideas but I'm not gonna share them right now.
Suffice it to say, 2k10 is the year of Eli being the best Eli he can be.
-- Eli
Sunday, December 20, 2009
Saturday, December 19, 2009
This time last year…
As I ran on Saturday through 'my woods' my thoughts wandered to last Xmas. We were in Georgia. I had just finished another term at school, having told my classmates not to expect to see me again as j was moving for work. I had a start date planned fo a new job (which was actually an old for a second time). Life seemed good from the vantage point I was at...
I remember my New Year's Resolution being I wasn't going to have another crappy year (as with all resolutions, that didn't go as planned). It seems that life has a way of working itself out. Dr. Ian Malcolm would say that 'life finds a way' due to chaos theory. I would say that God finds a way... Maybe through chaos theory as well.
The outlook for 2k10 is much better than 2k9.
We live in a different town. We both have jobs. We are having more family time. The family time we have is more enjoyable. It is hard to complain at this time.
We are not where we want to be and our hopes for this coming are high. I do believe we are in a place in our lives thAt we are going to be able to make our goals come true. It is going to take hard work and determinAtion along tons of prAyer, but it is possible.
I'm not resolving to not have another crappy year in 2k10, that's impossible ( as fAr as my power to control or effect it… although with God nothing is impossible, which is why I say as far as my power). My resolve will be for something that I can actually do…
-- Eli
I remember my New Year's Resolution being I wasn't going to have another crappy year (as with all resolutions, that didn't go as planned). It seems that life has a way of working itself out. Dr. Ian Malcolm would say that 'life finds a way' due to chaos theory. I would say that God finds a way... Maybe through chaos theory as well.
The outlook for 2k10 is much better than 2k9.
We live in a different town. We both have jobs. We are having more family time. The family time we have is more enjoyable. It is hard to complain at this time.
We are not where we want to be and our hopes for this coming are high. I do believe we are in a place in our lives thAt we are going to be able to make our goals come true. It is going to take hard work and determinAtion along tons of prAyer, but it is possible.
I'm not resolving to not have another crappy year in 2k10, that's impossible ( as fAr as my power to control or effect it… although with God nothing is impossible, which is why I say as far as my power). My resolve will be for something that I can actually do…
-- Eli
Tuesday, December 15, 2009
Very Excited!!!
We are going very shortly to the doctor's appointment where the sonogram is involved to determine if our third (& final natural-born, read non-adopted) child is going to be a boy or a girl.
I cannot express my excitement because either way it'll be cool and fun. We got some cool names picked out. Not here though. Not now, I should say.
-- Eli
I cannot express my excitement because either way it'll be cool and fun. We got some cool names picked out. Not here though. Not now, I should say.
-- Eli
Wednesday, December 9, 2009
"Daddy, I just deuced…"
Four words you never wanna hear unless they are on the toilet. Noah evidently couldn't hold in a green bean-sized deuce and released onto his bedroom floor post bath. Excellent.
-- Eli
-- Eli
Noah's Artwork
Noah put this expert artwork on the wall of his bedroom. I told him not to write on the walls anymore.
So this is what he did next…
With the exception of 'z' (which is written backwards) the entire alphabet in order expertly written… at least he knows the letters of the alphabet…
-- Eli
Monday, December 7, 2009
Our System is Down
The system at work is down this morning, so I thought I would take a moment to share the Scripture verses I read this morning. 1 Peter 2. I lik the part about not being in the family & now we are & not knowing mercy & now we do. Mercy allows meto sleep at night.
1 Therefore, putting aside all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander,2 like newborn babies, long for the pure milk of the word, so that by it you may grow in respect to salvation,3 if you have tasted the kindness of the Lord.
As Living Stones
4 And coming to Him as to a living stone which has been rejected by men, but is choice and precious in the sight of God,5 you also, as living stones, are being built up as a spiritual house for a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.6 For this is contained in Scripture:
“Behold , I lay in Zion a choice stone , a precious corner stone,
And he who believes in Him will not be disappointed .”
7 This precious value, then, is for you who believe; but for those who disbelieve,
“The stone which the builders rejected ,
This became the very corner stone,”
8 and,
“A stone of stumbling and a rock of offense ”;
for they stumble because they are disobedient to the word, and to this doom they were also appointed.
9 But you are a chosen race , a royal priesthood , a holy nation , a people for God’s own possession , so that you may proclaim the excellencies of Him who has called you out of darkness into His marvelous light;10 for you once were not a people , but now you are the people of God ; you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy .
11 Beloved, I urge you as aliens and strangers to abstain from fleshly lusts which wage war against the soul.12 Keep your behavior excellent among the Gentiles, so that in the thing in which they slander you as evildoers, they may because of your good deeds, as they observe them, glorify God in the day of visitation.
Honor Authority
13 Submit yourselves for the Lord’s sake to every human institution, whether to a king as the one in authority,14 or to governors as sent by him for the punishment of evildoers and the praise of those who do right.15 For such is the will of God that by doing right you may silence the ignorance of foolish men.16 Act as free men, and do not use your freedom as a covering for evil, but use it as bondslaves of God.17 Honor all people, love the brotherhood, fear God, honor the king.
-- Eli
1 Therefore, putting aside all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander,2 like newborn babies, long for the pure milk of the word, so that by it you may grow in respect to salvation,3 if you have tasted the kindness of the Lord.
As Living Stones
4 And coming to Him as to a living stone which has been rejected by men, but is choice and precious in the sight of God,5 you also, as living stones, are being built up as a spiritual house for a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.6 For this is contained in Scripture:
“Behold , I lay in Zion a choice stone , a precious corner stone,
And he who believes in Him will not be disappointed .”
7 This precious value, then, is for you who believe; but for those who disbelieve,
“The stone which the builders rejected ,
This became the very corner stone,”
8 and,
“A stone of stumbling and a rock of offense ”;
for they stumble because they are disobedient to the word, and to this doom they were also appointed.
9 But you are a chosen race , a royal priesthood , a holy nation , a people for God’s own possession , so that you may proclaim the excellencies of Him who has called you out of darkness into His marvelous light;10 for you once were not a people , but now you are the people of God ; you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy .
11 Beloved, I urge you as aliens and strangers to abstain from fleshly lusts which wage war against the soul.12 Keep your behavior excellent among the Gentiles, so that in the thing in which they slander you as evildoers, they may because of your good deeds, as they observe them, glorify God in the day of visitation.
Honor Authority
13 Submit yourselves for the Lord’s sake to every human institution, whether to a king as the one in authority,14 or to governors as sent by him for the punishment of evildoers and the praise of those who do right.15 For such is the will of God that by doing right you may silence the ignorance of foolish men.16 Act as free men, and do not use your freedom as a covering for evil, but use it as bondslaves of God.17 Honor all people, love the brotherhood, fear God, honor the king.
-- Eli
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