good things

i've many reasons to praise God for all the joy He has brought me lately. i could make a list, maybe i will. it goes something like this:

--at work, yesterday and today both ended with a really tough project coming my way. not tough in terms of "do i know how to do it" but tough in terms of "i can't get it done that quickly". but i did. i went ahead and tried to get beyond all the drama and insanity and just finished the job. i made people happy in the process and it felt sort of good.

--i've got a great team of people to learn from and listen to each day

--i've got a great team to share Jesus with

--charlie hall played worship at my church tonight. thanks chuck for your vulnerability!

--i don't like that girl or this girl. i've got my heart set on one girl. the girl. the girl i've liked for several, several years. do i surprise her? do i just start pursuing her? do i try to win her heart? do i break all the rules? do i try to approach this as a logical conversation? what does that look like?

deli sandwiches

nothing profound to say today. i had lunch with some good friends from college today. i'm two years removed from the college scene, but two of the people who ate deli sandwiches with me, are ones i really care about.

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wrk

i'm @ a breaking point where if i want to learn, i either need a macbook or a new place to office while @ work. if i continue to not be able to have a reasonable amount of quiet time/privacy at work, i won't be learning anything. i'm getting no privacy right now @ work.

a wise man can form his own conclusions

i watched the history channel tonight, which was my reward for laboring over a clean bathroom. my interest was peaked when i found that the history channel could step in just ten days after such a tragedy and bring to light a very informative and unbiased analysis of what occurred in blackburg on monday, april 16, 2007.

tonight i learned much more of the killer and the students who are left to make sense out of such a devastating event. correct me if i'm wrong here chad (the only friend i have who carries a history degree), but i believe history to be rewarding because it's not to be dissected for its politics, but rather only for its facts. and that's what the history channel gave me tonight: facts. a breath of fresh air, they didn't try to make sense out of all of it, but only the situation at hand.

what we all should know is that everyone feels something for that campus right now, whether they know it or not. we can busy ourselves and desensitize ourselves and see it just as another headline, but when we slow down to think things through, we begin to feel for those involved. just because we are busy doesn't mean we shouldn't slow down to grieve for the loss of 31 lives and pray for those in blacksburg to be renewed with God's hope.