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Pain
I’ve discovered new muscles in my legs. (And no… I’ve never taken anatomy & physiology.) I’ve discovered them after jogging about 1.5 miles Sunday evening. I know they’re there now b/c they protest when I sit down and when I walk up & down the stairs. I was feeling really blah this weekend, so I decided that the best way to get out of the slump was to kill myself. Inflict some sort of bodily injury. I feel most alive immediately after I’ve stubbed my toe or squished my fingers or accidentally cut myself in some manner… don’t you think so? It seems to me that pain is just God’s way of telling you you’re not quite dead yet. (in this life anyway…) So if you see me doing what seems to be a homie-G limp, I’m not trying to be cool, it actually hurts, alright?

Rebellion
OBEY, OBey, obey… I know what I should do is memorize all these cards, illustrations, verses, lead-ins, etc… for my evangelism class, but I honestly hate it. Nothing against the course, material, or teacher… and I can even see how this stuff would help to clarify the gospel message into a simple 5-minute conversation. The book sits in my bag, day after day… it’s really sad that I paid money for that and it’s doing no good sitting in my bag collecting wrinkles & crumples. BLAH ! Witness, Disciple, Testify…

Fear
I went to visit Grace House which is one of the places that GCC hopes to renovate and use for church activities and stuff. I was chilling out and then P.Y. actually came over and started talking to me. Asked me about where I went to school, work, friends, etc. It’s kinda funny when I look back on it now, but when I was talking to him, I actually just freaked out. Twitched out. I have no clue. maybe it was all that thinking got my imagination thinking things that weren’t really there… fear of the unknown? He was like… “We are just chatting…” Gotta give the man props for being perceptive. Kinda like an angel of God, “Fear not!” Anyways, I think I’ve calmed down from that and it’s amusing to think about, maybe we’ll actually chat again and hopefully this time I won’t twitch out. Fear God, not man…

Battle Plan.
I’ve been losing more battles with immorality than I’d like to admit. Heck, when you come right down to it, losing even one battle is more than I’d like. But I know there’s gotta be a reason for this, so I went back and looked over my defenses for key areas of weakness. So to shore up my defenses, this is the list of things that I need to do every single day to be prepared.

1. Sleep 8-9 hours everyday.
2. Morning prayer (15 mins of chill time w/ the Lord)
3. Daily reading / meditating on the Word

Here’s my reasoning behind it. #1 is simple. If I am tired, it’s alot harder for me to fight off urges & impulses. Fatigue saps my energy and also I’m not alert enough to avoid those ambushes I’ll run into in the course of the day. #2 keeps me in tune with what God is up to in my life. It gives me time to rant, rave, assess, re-center myself within the eternal perspective. #3 allows God to smack me upside the head with correction and shine some light into my life so I can recognize trash as trash and gold as gold. If I fail on #1, I cannot do #2 nor #3… I’ll fall asleep. So I’m gonna go to sleep now.
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Setting a good example (Saving money)
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