Jonathan Edwards Resolutions 1,2

I thought to post all of Jonathan Edward's Resolutions, but have decided to post just one or two at the time in the hopes that I'll  meditate on them further and make them my own.  I hope you enjoy as well.  To see them all, visit A Puritan's Mind.

Being sensible that I am unable to do anything without God’s help, I do humbly entreat him by his grace to enable me to keep these Resolutions, so far as they are agreeable to his will, for Christ’s sake.
Remember to read over these Resolutions once a week.

1. Resolved, that I will do whatsoever I think to be most to God’s glory, and my own good, profit and pleasure, in the whole of my duration, without any consideration of the time, whether now, or never so many myriad’s of ages hence. Resolved to do whatever I think to be my duty and most for the good and advantage of mankind in general. Resolved to do this, whatever difficulties I meet with, how many and how great soever.

2. Resolved, to be continually endeavoring to find out some new invention and contrivance to promote the aforementioned things.

Wishing you a *fruitful* new year...

Wishing you a *fruitful* new year...
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Figuring Life Out - One Thousand Gifts

Happy Hamsterdays!

Happy Hamsterdays!
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Veith's Blog has a great Christmas post.  Beautiful.

Wishing you a warm, fuzzy end to the year....

Wishing you a warm, fuzzy end to the year....
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Even So, Come Lord Jesus

Maker of the sun, He is made under the sun.
In the Father He remains, from His mother He goes forth.
Creator of heaven and earth, He was born on earth under heaven.
Unspeakable wise, He is wisely speechless.
Filling the world, He lies in a manger.
  Ruler of the stars, He nurses at His mother’s bosom.
He is both great in the nature of God, and small in the form of a servant.
Augustine

Hit this link to find out Why I'm just too cool for Facebook.  Actually, I knew I would be drawn in hook, line and sinker - just the smell of it gives me a contact high. Thankfully, I've avoided it. But barely. Thanks to the above article, I can now bask in my spiritual superiority over all of you that DO have Facebook and relish in the fact that I'll never bore you with personal facts about myself.

I Get No Respect

I really am boring. In fact, I regularly get forgotten. I’ve made plans before to go to lunch with people and get left behind. It wouldn’t be so bad, except its happened more than once. I think my voice must be annoyingly pitched like a gnat. Hear that, “zzzz zz bzz?” No? it’s all right. Most people don’t. I regularly get talked over. Walked by. Ignored. Really. I get not respect. It’s nothing new either. My sister and best friend couldn’t figure out what to do with me for a bachelorettes party. It was a choice between bingo and nothing. They chose nothing. I guess being boring is not necessarily a bad thing. I am stable, loyal, quiet, and what’s the word I hear a lot? Calm. That’s it. Calm. I think that’s a synonym for boring. Even so, I’ll take it. Calm is good. I did come up with some more(mildly) interesting things about me: 14. While in Vegas, on my way to an interview, I took the bus headed in the wrong direction and what should have been a 15 minute bus ride turned into over two hours while the bus drove its whole route. Then, as I walked to the office I was to be interviewed at in my best dress and heels, I was chased by a tumbleweed. 13. I used to have a Prince poster hanging in my bedroom. 12. I worked at a major international engineering firm as the Executive Assistant for the Vice President over the whole Eastern Region. 11. My first vehicle was a big, green truck with huge wheels, a CB antenna, bush guards, and a roll bar. I worked and saved up the $1025 on my own. 10. As a teenager, I only baby sat twice – and one of those times I brought my best friend to help me out. 9. My first job was at a Tastee Freeze when I was in the 9th grade. I quit it when the owner yelled at me about an empty Redi-Whip can. 8. My Indian name is “Little Feather.” 7. I’ve read the book, A Wrinkle In Time, probably over 30 times. The Hobbit would be a close second in how many times I’ve read it, and then Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy would be next. 6. I’ve swam in hot springs surrounded by snow. 5. As a prize for an essay, I won $500. The essay described in agonizing detail how “male” religions borrowed from and overthrew the ancient, harmonious “female” religions. 4. I played the flute for four years. 3. Lee used to call me a beatnik. (See #5 above). 2. Once I became a Christian, I had to kick my Cosmopolitan magazine addiction. 1. Finally, I’ve moved over twenty times (from trailers, to studio apartments, to Alaska, Las Vegas, Washington D.C.)

ho ho hum...

So, the other day, someone from the front office came to me and said, “We need to know something interesting about you that most people don’t know.” The plan was for these interesting tid-bits to be announced in front of the whole assembly to see if anyone could guess who was being talked about. “Really?” I said, “I am the most boring person I know, except, I guess, that’s not a little known fact.” In fact, my co-workers had already been polled and no one could come up with anything beyond, “Susan really is funny.” I can hear the announcer with THAT one: “This teacher is funny, it’s just that no one knows it.” So I was left to come up with something interesting about myself, and even *I* had to think about it and get back with her. Sigh. I really am boring. Now with that groundwork laid, I’ve decided to challenge myself and come up with a few things that might be interesting about me. Just in case it ever comes up again.
Without further ado, here are the Top Twenty Interesting Things About Susan:

20. When I was 19, I got a job at a bagel shop. Up until then, I had never had a bagel.
19. I’ve backed into cars, ditches, and/or mailboxes over five times.
18. In 9th grade, I was nicknamed “Hot Lips.”
17. For a while, I was certain that I’d grow up to be an archaeologist.
16. I volunteered at a nursing home and once ran down a visitor thinking that they were a run-away resident.
15. I was saved in “Sin City,” Las Vegas. Once I was called, I read the whole Bible in a week and then had to go to a library to find out what denomination I was.

More to come later....