I apologize. I knew going into this from past experiences with trying to journal, that I am not a "journal-er." Ha. I hated it in the past. I am not consistent with it. It is hard with a flexing schedule to be consistent with it. As an ADD survivor, consistency is a must for me. So, not being able to have a consistent schedule is killing me when it comes to journaling on line. BUT, I know it is something that I am supposed to do (God told me so...really : ) so I am going to keep at it and slowly but surely get better at it.
Today was a tough start. It actually started at midnight (as I suppose all days do) but this day I was still at church. We had a great guest speaking, a good friend from the Chaco Salteno and I felt that I needed to hang out afterwards and capitalize on this rare time we had to talk, catch up, and dream of future ministry. It was awesome but I did not make it home until really late. The last time I saw the clock it was 2 AM. So, when I had to get up at 6:45 AM - after a few interruptions of sleep from our precious little ones - I was REALLY tired.
I managed, with Heather's help, to get the kids up and ready and off to school. Jonny stayed home with a fever. We didn't want him to give something to the other kids. Aliana and I had a great time on the way to school & after dropping her off at her class I walked the mile plus to the church.
I had a GREAT Staff Meeting... with God! He is an amazing boss. I mean that literally. As a follower of Jesus, He is my Lord, my Master, and so in essence, the Boss of my Life. We talked about things that are going on in our life and in the community and beyond. I appealed to Him for his wisdom and assistance. He shared with me what I should be working on. It was an awesome time. Staff Meeting took just over an hour. I was super tired so it got off to a slow start. : )
Afterwards I spent about an hour, reading the book of Ephesians in Castellano, start to finish. I marked several verses that jumped out at me, and thought of others I will most likely mark up next time I read it through. Then I spend quite a bit of time continuing my quest of memorizing the entire book...in Castellano. It is hard enough to do memory work like that in your original language. It is really daunting to do it in a 2nd language. But, I am making headway. My goal is 4 verses per day which will enable me to memorize the entire book in 1 month. The challenge is in not only memorizing the 4 verses each day, but to keep what you have previously learned; learned. Ha. I know I can do it. In the past, I memorized the 1st 5 chapters of the Gospel of Mathew. It is quite the challenge, but I know it is both something I need to do and something that will be incredibly beneficial both to me, and to those within my sphere of influence. I am just a few days into it, so I have a loooong way to go. BUT, I AM going to do it. : ) It is already paying good dividends.
I then studying a book on Personal Evangelism, in Castellano, again. It is going slow, but good. I am loving it and can't wait to get more fluent with it and be putting it into practice. Then I washed up, packed up and headed for the school to get the kids. I tried going to the ATM but it was out of service. The pharmacy was open and they had an antibiotic for AJ - she has a cough that is persisting and slowly worsening over a period of a few weeks. And, poor little thing, she is a mucus factory right now. It makes me think back to my days in language school in Costa Rica when I got pneumonia and had to hospitalized for a week and get my lung washed and sucked out all because I did not deal with it earlier on. We started her on the antibiotic today. We will keep praying and monitoring her progress. I am quite sure she is going to be ok. : )
I got AJ from school, came home and made lunch for everyone, and enjoyed it with Heather while the kids watched a video. Then I played a little bit of video games with the kids, took a long but good skype call from our Area Directors, and then prepped a Spanish lesson for the kids. After the Spanish lesson we had dinner, played a little more, went outside to ride bikes on our little street, and helped the neighbor lady with her yardwork. She was very relieved as she did not have some of the things she needed and it was a great blessing to her. It was also an answer to prayers for us. She has seemed cold and distant lately and I was praying for God to help strengthen our relationship with her. Yeah God!
We came in, did baths, helped the kids study, and put them to bed. I worked on line a bit, watched some TV with my precious wife, and now an trying to get back into the habit of doing an on line journal entry every night. Yeah. : )
It is now the next day, after midnight again, and I need to wrap this up and get to bed. Tomorrow will seem to come way to fast. Ha.
Good night and God bless you all -
"Que Dios, nuestro Padre, y el Senor, Jesucristo, les concedan gracia y paz - "
(May God, our Heavenly Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ, give to you all His grace and peace. - Ephesians 1:2)
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