After making some good progress on my list the first two weeks, the progress has slowed considerably. Life is quite busy right now with school and work and other commitments, so it leaves little time to accomplish some fun stuff unfortunately. I've realized that the time to try to tackle the things on my list is going to have to be the weekends. I always really look forward to the weekends because it means a break from school and hopefully a chance to something new or exciting. This weekend though, I am gonna take a break from the list. My favorite sister and favorite brother-in-law are coming into town tomorrow for the weekend so I am just going to enjoy spending some time with them!
Although I am not completely crossing things off, I am working a few items.....
I am in the middle of my third book (still way ahead of schedule by the way :) ) and enjoying it. I know I said that the book by Bear Grylls would be next, but it hasn't come in yet so I am reading Born to Run about a super athlete group of people in the Mexican wilderness called the Tarahumara that can run incredible distances.
Yesterday I read the book of Philemon for the first time I think. If I had read it before, it was without the background information I learned yesterday. Nicole got me an ESV Study Bible for Christmas, which I love, that has an introduction for each book that tells the themes, purpose, occasion etc. for that book. Anyway, yesterday I read that the book of Philemon was written by Paul to Philemon pursuading him to reconcile with one of his former slaves. Philemon was a wealthy Christian slave owner in the town of Colassea and Onesimus was one of his slaves. Onesimus stole from Philemon and fled to Rome. There he met Paul and became a Christian. Paul knew that the relationship between Philemon and Onesimus needed to be restored so Paul wrote the book of Philemon to convince him to receive Onesimus lovingly as a brother in Christ and not as a slave upon his return. Paul even says, "Accordingly, though I am bold enough in Christ to command you to do what is required, yet for love's sake I prefer to appeal to you..." (vv. 8-9). Paul......what a cool dude.
Also in the works: I have watched three movies taking care of P, S and U (Post Grad, Surrogates and Up). Surrogates and Up were both pretty good, but I'm still holding off on the "great" critique, hopefully I'll see a great one soon!
My loose change bucket is seeing some growth, I got 4 pennies today! haha. It does make me laugh to myself that now i caught myself scanning the ground for coins, but hey! Why not?!
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