The days is hot!

Dana and I are moving up in the world, we got ourselves a window air conditioner... It actually works really well, and it will be especially nice in the next week and a half when the temp's are going to reach as high as +41C with the humidity.

Prayers for the journey....

God is light. There is no darkness in him at all, not even a little bit... so says 1 John 1. Therefore, if I am walking in darkness, even a little bit... I'm not being fully immersed in the light. Darkness is the absence of light, and light needs not darkness to sustain itself.

God, I come to you, my source of light, my source of life. You are my Lord and my King. I desire to walk in the light as you are in the light. As I stand in the light of your glorious presence, expose anything that offends you. May that which I claim to be, and that which I am, both be in line with you Jesus Christ.

Observation #2

The "self-storage" sections at stores like Canadian Tire and Superstore keep getting bigger and bigger... go figure.

"It is sadly all to possible to know the truth without doing it, to profess faith without expressing it in a consistent life..." -John R.W. Stott

"If we claim to have fellowship with him and yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not live out the truth. But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, purifies us from all sin..." -1 John 1:6-7

Challenging and hopeful words I have read today.

Observation #1

People who are driving often get mad at those who drive slower than them, and they speed, all in a tizzy, passed the slower person only to find another stop light...

good stuff

Good things of the day:
-going to church
-having barbeque for lunch with the church family
-dana's pasta salad
-playing baseball "church picnic" style
-watching force almost cause tectonic plates to move near first base
-having barbeque for supper
-more of dana's pasta salad

that is all.

Sleepless in Saint B.

You ever have one of those nights where you're so tired and all you want to do is sleep but it's the one thing you can't seem to accomplish? I'm having one of those nights...

Freedom in simplicity...

It has been great to focus on one thing. Going down to working just one job was the right decision for me. I feel a freedom I have not felt in a long time... Perhaps the last time I felt this was when my evenings consisted of playing kick the can or dodge ball on s'up da bruce's trampoline...

O.k. maybe not that free, but still a vast difference from where I was. I think there is something good and right about freeing yourself up to do the things you know you're best at, and really sinking your teeth into those things.

I thank God for his generosity to me, and in return I pray that the sacrifice of a more simplified life pleases Him.

"There is no greater need today than the freedom to lay down the heavy burden of getting ahead..." -Richard Foster

My thoughts... "It's way too tiring to try and be a 'somebody'..."

Little red fighting fish

A couple of weeks ago Dana and I went to some friends of ours' new house and enjoyed their house warming party. While there, I noticed they had some fish in a nicely displayed aquarium. I don't know about you, but there is nothing more relaxing than watching fish swim, and seeing an aesthetically pleasing aquarium.

I was inspired... And thus, a week later I went out and bought "Taz," my little red fighting fish. It was one of those fish that are only allowed in the tank alone as they will tear to shreds any other fish with them.

It cost me a grand total of $18.37, Canadian. They tried to get me to buy this special formula for when you clean the tank, but I politely declined, partly because it was like seven bucks, and partly because my fish's home was to be in a five gallon antique milk jar. The lady at Petland asked what kind of a set up I had for the fish, and I sheepishly said, "a bowl," as I thought the animal rights activist would be after me if they found out I shoved it in an old milk jug.

Taz was a great addition to our little place, it added some ambiance and gave me something to do after work... that is stare at it while it floated and did nothing.

A couple days ago Dana was getting after me to clean the "tank" (i.e. milk jug) and so, after some procrastination, I finally cleaned the tank.

That day we decided to go for a one day trip out to Lake Nutimik to just relax around a campfire. We got back today, and Dana reminded me to go and feed Taz. Taz likes to hang out on the bottom of the milk jug for some reason, and so it was business as usual as I walked toward it to feed the little red devil... The only difference was that he was upside down and his mouth was wide open.

"Taz": May 24, 2008 - June 1 or 2, 2008

Poor little buddy.

I guess I should have bought the $7 cleaning solution... But really, what kind of a fighter fish is that! It couldn't even handle a day of fasting and its water au natural from the tap.

And thus, I said a quick goodbye to ole' Taz as he had a proper burial down American Standard...

Perhaps I wasn't meant to be a pet owner.