Accountability
I missed sharing an update Saturday. I needed to get some things ready in the morning to be to the baptism of my nephew about an hour drive away and had kids to get ready for it with a sick wife. I thought I'd make a post later in the day, but vehicle trouble left it so I wasn't home until bed time and still had things to do to try to be ready for church the next day.
The weekend was nice and we had a little home celebration of my middle child's Birthday (her party will be the next weekend). I was able to put some study into a plan I hope to be sharing soon for making progress in one's faith. This morning I made it through my three sets of 5 pull-ups with 30 seconds rest. A challenge to be sure, but I got it done. That marks the completion of a cycle of those which coincides with another cycle being complete in my scripture listening today.
Ponderings
Today I heard the end of the Jaredite people which is very close in textual space to the end of the Nephites, even though these events were separated by centuries in chronological terms. It is sad to see how pride and hatred get in the way of positive change. Coriantumr was promised if he would repent he could have the kingdom and live in peace, but he was so filled with a need to destroy his enemies that he wouldn't do it. One question this could lead me to ask myself is, what sins (great or small) am I holding on to because my judgment is clouded by them to make them seem more important to me than coming to Christ? At this very stage in my life, this will require some thought. Not because I'm perfect (I'm not), but because either due to clouded judgment or possibly a lack of this being an issue, I can't pinpoint anything right now. I can look back in my life and see things that were in the way in the past. I'm not as sure that I would have seen them either when they were in the present though.
Something to think on.
Be strong!
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Gratitude, Right that’s a lot of good for thought. It has occurred to me today but not for the first time that I need to spend more time in gratitude. So far today I have only done two hundred and fifty push-ups from the knees. I hope to get in some more today. Coriantumr and Shiz there’s a pair of angry guys. What seems terribly sad in addition to those two is all the people swept along who probably thought their side was justified. Propaganda was in full force even before television.