Woohoo

The end of unscheduled Sunday activity has reached us.

Next week, soccer starts on Sunday evening and shortly after it ends, its time for fantasy football. Don't worry though, I kept up with the NFL draft most of the weekend so I could know how it might affect my fantasy football future.

Look for me next week at the soccer field.

Here's to hoping it doesn't rain.

172,900

That's the new TextTwist high score for Jenny and I. It took us a game that lasted 2 hours and 7 minutes to set that mark. We likely won't beat it soon.

We almost lost it on the words "addend" and "hafted" but barely pulled through those rounds. It was finally "tibias" that brought us to our demise.

If any of you would like to play TextTwist to try and beat our score, you can find it for free at "yahoo.com" under their games section.

I feel not so bad on two of those words since even the spellchecker for blogger thinks they aren't words.

Our New Office

Since Jenny and I began the kitchen project, our actual dining room table is full of other things. The dining room table was our office away from the office. Our computer rested there and whenever I used it, that is likely where you could find me.

Because we have both been too lazy to clean that table off since starting that project, our new office is portable. We use the computer on the couch (yay wireless) and rest in on a chair right behind the couch when we aren't using it.

We are on our third office in this house now. I don't know where else it can move to. I also don't know when it will start regressing through the same channels. Eventually, it will likely move back to the dining room table, though I doubt it will actually move back to the physical office. The books and computer just don't get along well.

What Quenches Worry?

I don't live my life worrying very much. I really never have. I've never been overly concerned that finances wouldn't work out (not because of me, but because of a great resource of people around me). I've never been concerned that I couldn't find a job. I've never been concerned that I wouldn't overcome a sickness, or that an injury would debilitate me. I've never had many of these worries, but my worry has usually been quenched for the wrong reasons.

People around me have helped me not too worry. Stewardship has helped me not to worry. Doctors, medicine, a physically fit body, a wife, parents, mentors have all helped me not to worry. Friends have helped me not to worry.

What I don't think, however, is that any of these things are supposed to be what would quench my worry.

Only faith should do that. Stewardship wasn't designed to prevent worry, faith was. Trust in God is far more important than placing my trust in any of the good things listed above.

I had this thought thinking of money the other day. Specifically, that money and my ability to create it should never be an issue to avoid worry. Faith is what sustains me, not money.

I'm still trying to figure out what that looks like in my life, but I'm trying. Trying to organize and live in a way that it is obvious faith runs me, not these other things.

Long Day

8 hours and approximately 1500 T-Shirts later, I'm done folding clothes for a while.

That included 6 sermons and a much needed lunch break to Chipotle as well.

I think I used all my brain capacity at 8:30 this morning when Jenny taught me the new way that I needed to fold these shirts to keep them in the best balance of flatness and presentableness. My mind has been mush since repeating that action so many times.

I'll have something thoughtful to post tomorrow.