Thanks for checking in on me, dude. Things are going swimmingly, still. I've just been very very busy with school, work, normal life routines, SO and still trying to find the time to take care of myself. You know, it's no wonder we found ourselves in the pickles we were in before with our WAS's. We get so busy with life and everything that goes along with it that I think both the LBS and the WAS expect each other to take care of each other. Why this may be true to some degree, ultimately we need to care for ourselves first. I've been trying to figure out how I could work a new gym routine into my schedule. I'm guilty of getting a little soft over the winter, between typical winter inactivity and the not smoking thing (8 months and counting now, btw! ).
Amd, yes, you may email me at w-l-l-o-w-w-k at hotmail dot com.
BT, thank you for the prayers that you've posted. I appreciat them. I feel the need to point something out, however.
Remember the passage about removing the log from one's own eye before noticing the splinter in your neighbor's eye? That's kind of the way I feel about praying for the changing of someone else's heart. While I DO think it is important to pray for the safety and well-being of others, I think it is MORE important for us to pray for our own changes of heart and mind, so we may better understand where we failed and what mistakes we can learn from.
My .02, FWIW.
Update:
After such a horrible class last term, I'm getting straight A's in my current class, with the exception of a group paper. It's funny because I'm getting feedback from my prof telling me how good, clear, consice and well-cited my projects and commentaries have been. Don't think I wasn't tempted to send some of his comments to my former prof, but I didn't.
SO came off dad duty last night, but we both have very hectic schedules. He's back in class, has some upcoming professional organization workshops he's presenting at, and we both have Toastmasters regular meetings and an upcoming spring conference. Add to that my own class work and family and my responsibilities at church, and a healthy sprinkling of social gatherings, and it's a wonder I have any time to sleep!
Life is good right now. And I am extremely grateful. I was in worship yesterday morning and found myself, as I often do, overcome with gratitude. And the sense of gratitude, interestingly enough, did not focus on my new R with SO, but rather it was all-encompassing of all of the many, many blessings I have in my life. Often I find myself unable to sing all of the words to a given hymn, or at a loss for words to pray at the time of communion because the feeling of gratitude is just SO BIG, it feels as though it is literally spilling out through my eyes and ears and I think I will burst at the seams!
Life is good, and I am truly blessed. In hindsight, I know I was blessed during my times of recent tribulation, and I know I will be blessed in tribulations of the future.
SO and I still talk peripherally about wedding plans, but I'm holding him to a full-blown proposal before I start making specific plans with him. Our talks, however, are really leaning toward eloping. Recently I pointed out to him that he really doesn't need to have an engagement ring, since the ring I have picked out for a wedding band already has a stone in it. (And yes, he knows which one I want.)
That's about all for now. I have another group project that is due tomorrow night, and I'm not getting a lot of cooperation from my other two team mates. They were supposed to have their drafts and citations to me yesterday so I could start working on the intro, conclusion and APA format, but nothing so far.
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