I'm not perfect

And this may be news to some people, but I KNOW I'm not perfect ... and I don't have delusions of amazingness by any means. Maybe it's not just me, but it seems like whenever I try to encourage people to walk more righteously or try to help them be accountable I get this sort of response of, "Well, you're not perfect." And I'm not going about it in a sort of "You're sinning!! Don't do (this)!" sort of way, either. I mean, correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't the Bible say that we should be helping our brothers and sisters to try and walk blamelessly. It's not the same as judging. Anyway, just thought I would let you all know that I do realize I'm not perfect and any time you want to let me know why this it true, feel free :)



In other news: It was my roommate's birthday yesterday, and as a number of other people had birthdays on or close to the same day, and bunch of us got together for a potluck and some games ... it was a great meal, and I played a few games of Dutch Blitz, which is always a great time! I may or may not have been scaring people with my level of competetiveness (sorry, Georgia) ;)

fighting the good fight

I did not get the Our Daily Bread for December - February until recently, so I have been sort of skimming through what I missed ... and yesterday as I was reading, one (January 28th - hey, the day Everest turned 4 months old) in particular connected with me. It was talking about how we continuously go out into the battlefield that is the world, and we are insufficiently armed. So often we venture out without any armour on and we wonder why we aren't protected from attacks. And it's not like we haven't been warned (Eph. 6:12). Anyway, I would just like to encourage anyone reading this to make sure that you are armed and ready, as no one likes to see casualties. Wow, I'm so cryptic :)

Anyway, aside from reading Our Daily Bread more than daily, things have been good. I've been able to get a leg up on my project work, and am looking foward to furthering the progress I've made. I'll probably put a bit on here about what I'm working on (evaluating a plan for education in Africa) when it gets closer to done - it promises to be interesting.

I was pretty worn out by the end of last week from all the physical duress I put myself under, but I'm feeling somewhat restored and nothing's going on today but reading, which will help facilitate the restoration. I don't usually have a problem with the time changes (probably because I have no set schedule :)), so that wasn't making anything worse ... Gareth Evans (not the politician or the philosopher) is an amazing speaker!!! It had to be proclaimed :D