I was tagged by Angela-
Four Things...
Four jobs I've had:
1. Currently a Client Service Assistant in Retirement Services- Don't ask, its not that interesting
2. Substitute teacher (definitely the most stressful)
3. An Elementary and History Tutor (definitely the most fun!)
4. A Janitor, believe it or not!?
Four movies I've seen more than once:
*I really have to like a movie to watch it more than once*
1. The Lord of the Rings Trilogy
2. It's a Wonderful Life
3. What about Bob?
4. Pride and Prejudice (the new version)
Four TV shows I watch:
* I don't currently watch four TV shows, but these are some that I really enjoyed watching at various times in the past and present*
1. The Amazing Race
2. Gilmore Girls
3. The Cosby Show
4. And I have to agree with Angela- I love HGTV, but we don't have it either
Four places I've been:
1. Turkey (Including Ephesus)
2. Jamaica
3. Mexico
4. New York City
Four people who email me regularly:
1. Patti
2. People at work- how lame is that (but in my defense not all of it is business)!
3. Kim
4. Family
Four of my favorite foods:
1. Cheeze-its (definitely love these- I can eat a whole box by myself in a day!)
2. Feta Cheese on almost anything
3. Guacamole
4. Dark Chocolate
Four things I'm looking forward to in the next year:
1. Next summer (I really dislike winter and its already getting a little chilly for me)
2. Getting back into serving at my church
3. Getting into road biking more and hopefully even entering a race
4. Cooking, I've found I really enjoy it! I love to try new things! I don't really repeat recipes. And I would love to take a cooking class just for fun!
Now I'm tagging Emily!
Friday, August 29, 2008
Thursday, August 28, 2008
I have to admit...sometimes I'm a Pharisees
A. W. Tozer writes in his book The Root of Righteousness-
"The test by which all conduct must finally be judged is motive.
As water cannot rise higher than its source, so the moral quality in an act can never be higher than the motive that inspires it. For this reason, no act that arises from an evil motive can be good, even though some good may appear to come out of it. For this reason no act that arises from an evil motive can be good, even though some good may appear to come out of it. Every deed done out of anger or spite, for instance, will be found at last to have been done for the enemy and against the Kingdom of God!
Unfortunately, the nature of religious activity is such that much of it can be carried on for reasons that are not goo, such as anger, jealousy, ambition, vanity and avarice. All such activity is essentially evil, and will be counted as such at the judgement.
In this matter of motive, as in so many other things, the Pharisees afford us clear examples.
They remain the world's most dismal religious failures, not because of doctrinal error nor because they were careless or lukewarm, nor because they were outwardly persons of dissolute life.
Their whole trouble lay in the quality of their religious motives. They prayed, but they prayed to be heard of men, and thus their motives ruined their prayers and rendered them not only useless, but actually evil. They gave generously to the service of the temple, but they sometimes did it to escape their duty toward their parents, and this was an evil. They judged sin and stood against it when found in others, but this they did from self-righteousness and hardness of heart.
So with almost everything they did. Their activities had about them an outward appearance of holiness, and those same activities, if carried on out of pure motives, would have been good and praiseworthy. The whole weakness of the pharisees lay in the quality of their motives.
That this is not a small matter may be gathered from the fact that those orthodox and proper religionists went on in their blindness, until at last they crucified the Lord of glory, with no inkling of the gravity of their crime!"
Sometimes the blackness of my own heart propels me far from any pure motive and into only self-glorification and pride. Thus, my nature as a Pharisee comes to life again. Of course God know what we are made of and how the flesh desperately fights against the spiritual. But today if you read this post, please examine your motives. God knows your heart do you?
"The test by which all conduct must finally be judged is motive.
As water cannot rise higher than its source, so the moral quality in an act can never be higher than the motive that inspires it. For this reason, no act that arises from an evil motive can be good, even though some good may appear to come out of it. For this reason no act that arises from an evil motive can be good, even though some good may appear to come out of it. Every deed done out of anger or spite, for instance, will be found at last to have been done for the enemy and against the Kingdom of God!
Unfortunately, the nature of religious activity is such that much of it can be carried on for reasons that are not goo, such as anger, jealousy, ambition, vanity and avarice. All such activity is essentially evil, and will be counted as such at the judgement.
In this matter of motive, as in so many other things, the Pharisees afford us clear examples.
They remain the world's most dismal religious failures, not because of doctrinal error nor because they were careless or lukewarm, nor because they were outwardly persons of dissolute life.
Their whole trouble lay in the quality of their religious motives. They prayed, but they prayed to be heard of men, and thus their motives ruined their prayers and rendered them not only useless, but actually evil. They gave generously to the service of the temple, but they sometimes did it to escape their duty toward their parents, and this was an evil. They judged sin and stood against it when found in others, but this they did from self-righteousness and hardness of heart.
So with almost everything they did. Their activities had about them an outward appearance of holiness, and those same activities, if carried on out of pure motives, would have been good and praiseworthy. The whole weakness of the pharisees lay in the quality of their motives.
That this is not a small matter may be gathered from the fact that those orthodox and proper religionists went on in their blindness, until at last they crucified the Lord of glory, with no inkling of the gravity of their crime!"
Sometimes the blackness of my own heart propels me far from any pure motive and into only self-glorification and pride. Thus, my nature as a Pharisee comes to life again. Of course God know what we are made of and how the flesh desperately fights against the spiritual. But today if you read this post, please examine your motives. God knows your heart do you?
Friday, August 8, 2008
Is it possible??
I know this is going to sound a little ridiculous and crazy, but I think that I pulled a muscle in my big toe. I'm not sure how in the world it happened. All I know is the top of my big toe hurts every time I move my foot to walk. Weird.
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