July 13, 2004

  • Currently Eating: nothing, and I'm starving...

    Sorry my blog has been irregular, it has been a little tighter in the morning time when I have normally been blogging...

    FIrst things first-I read most of the Beatitudes today (Matthew 5-7) and for some reason, out of all the amazing stuff you can get out of those verses, I walked away with "Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect" (Matt 5:48) And I'm not sure why-but I think it partly because of this whole "standard of excellence" thing that is built into my philosophy of life--that even though no person on this earth will EVER be perfect, no matter what we do, it is still the goal Christ gives to us--it is what we are to strive to do...AND IRONICALLY it has nothing to do with works! It is not about DOing anything. It's all about the condition of our heart..."be perfect" has nothing to do with how we act BUT Christ-like actions will be a result of a heart that is surrendered to Christ and that is following His will.
    So, let your heart be right with God...the never-ending struggle-it's a DAILY thing (most of the time even more often than that).

    OK- NERTZ!

    I don't think I want to post the scores...but I guess I will...it was a sad day for the Semsen household. I made a couple of poor decisions that cost me the game.
    Erica was back and was crazy good at the first 3 hands, but then she plummeted, and that's when I started to make my way to the front. When my score reached 101, I won! I was rejoicing and everyone said, "we can't stop now!" and coerced me to play, "Just 2 more rounds" in order to "defend my title" and in light of comments like "can't you handle it??" and things like that...ANYWHO after 2 more rounds i was not winning, so I turned the tables and we all convinced the now-winner to play for another 15 minutes (I was sure by then I could win). It was sad. Chris blazed ahead and knocked me out of the winning...the old addage is right--QUIT WHILE YOU'RE AHEAD!!!!! I cannot emphasize that one enough!
    I will have my revenge............

    We're off to Saddleback for a 4-day conference. I can't wait! I won't post for a little bit while we're there...

    Nertz scores:

    Crafty Chris: 156
    Dumbfounded Daniel:100
    Steady Suzie: 85
    Massaccred Mike: 73
    Cruddy-score Christy: 17
    Erring Erica: - 24
    Bummed Brad: - 37

    Yes, so sad....

Comments (2)

  • You suck. Next time we're playing a game with 4-5 people or less. Drive safe.

  • "It is not about DOing anything. It's all about the condition of our heart..."be perfect" has nothing to do with how we act BUT Christ-like actions will be a result of a heart that is surrendered to Christ and that is following His will."

    ^ Words of wisdom for the day. Good stuff yo.

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