today we woke up at 7.30 and i drove us to belle isle and again, there was running. again, i ran and walked. feel better about it today though.
song of the day: your love is extravagant - the almost
scripture of the day: there were a few; one was habukkuk 3:16-18, luke 10:38-42, and the other was psalm 16:11
i got teaching minds, training hearts in the mail today. first package in the new place. i had my mother send it so i can still catechize over the summer. recently, my prayer life has gone through... a rough patch. not surprising because my bible-reading schedule has been... inadequate. i don't like to just flip to random places in the Word and read randomly because that feels too... spontaneous i guess; i like to have a goal of some sort like 'finish the new testament' (check!) or 'finish reading Acts' (i think i may need a guide to get through that book properly). this book (by starr meade) will be really good for me. it takes you through all of these doctrinal truths in bite-sized pieces with scriptural references and simple explanation. there's a question for each week and six days of information surrounding them. so this week's question is: for what purpose was man created? (more or less) and the answer is: to glorify God and enjoy Him forever. i read monday through wednesday's portions, and so those scriptures above were the mentioned ones.
the luke passage really pressed my heart. basically, these two sisters, martha and mary are at home with Jesus. and martha's cleaning the house taking care of things, and mary's just sitting with Jesus not helping at all, just listening to him. so martha complains (pretty kindly, if you ask me) and Jesus replies: "martha, martha, you are anxious and troubled about many things, but one thing is necessary." He tells her that what mary has chosen to do is better!
first of all, the fact that it's written that he says, 'martha, martha' just strikes me. He's so loving-- that just sounds so loving to me, haha. like a sigh and like He just wants her to understand and feels for her. then, the whole anxious and troubled thing– SO ME. "but one thing is necessary." HIM. maybe THAT should be my summer theme.
so after devo time, we prayed and got to work. got calls done, and tons of literature review research done, preparing to go to the library and print things out tomorrow. at lunch, we ate some cherries at the table. that second picture is one of the lovely place mats i love so much. then we went to subway for dinner, came back to the house and watched an episode of Say Yes to the Dress. fun to watch; but goodness, i have to guard my heart against that show sometimes! can't watch it all the time, and not because i want to be in a wedding dress (though i wouldn't mind) haha, but because of how much money these women spend! one of the dresses cost 8500 dollars. i can't imagine wearing 8500 worth of anything. i wouldn't. want. to move.
on a new note entirely, i used to play around with html when i was in middle school; i thought it would be the coolest thing in the entire world to create a website from scratch. it's actually one of the most confusing things in the world. needless to say, i didn't get very far. however, i have never lost my love and interest in html. this is all a preface for why i am proud of myself.
if you notice anything different about my blog since my last post you get a gold star. i changed something. something very small and very significant (to me). see the two pictures i've posted? they have no borders.
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yes, i went into the html (backing everything up first, of course) and i did a little searching for all the places it mentioned images and borders, and just sort of deleted things. then i had this problem. i previewed the page and it was working, but i got this crazy sounding error when i tried to save it:
blah blah... The processing instruction target matching "[xX][mM][lL]" is not allowed.
for a few moments, i was down in the dumps. then i googled the message and figured out that i just needed to delete the blank space before the html started and it let me save it! and that's the story of how the pictures on this blog lost their borders. -bows-
now i just wish i could control how big/small the image get beyond the given "small", "medium", "large", etc. ... sigh. satisfaction. just can't have it anywhere else but in the Lord.
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