I finally finished my application for TM!
Thank you Jennifer and Marie for helping my papers be understandable to people other than me.
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Tuesday, November 30, 2004
Monday, November 29, 2004
Psalm 51
A Contrite Sinner's Prayer for Pardon.
For the choir director. A Psalm of David, when Nathan the prophet came to him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba.
1 Be gracious to me, O God, according to Your lovingkindness;
According to the greatness of Your compassion blot out my transgressions.
2 Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity
And cleanse me from my sin.
3 For I know my transgressions,
And my sin is ever before me.
4 Against You, You only, I have sinned
And done what is evil in Your sight,
So that You are justified when You speak
And blameless when You judge.
5 Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity,
And in sin my mother conceived me.
6 Behold, You desire truth in the innermost being,
And in the hidden part You will make me know wisdom.
7 Purify me with hyssop, and I shall be clean;
Wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.
8 Make me to hear joy and gladness,
Let the bones which You have broken rejoice.
9 Hide Your face from my sins
And blot out all my iniquities.
10 Create in me a clean heart, O God,
And renew a steadfast spirit within me.
11 Do not cast me away from Your presence
And do not take Your Holy Spirit from me.
12 Restore to me the joy of Your salvation
And sustain me with a willing spirit.
13 Then I will teach transgressors Your ways,
And sinners will be converted to You.
14 Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, the God of my salvation;
Then my tongue will joyfully sing of Your righteousness.
15 O Lord, open my lips,
That my mouth may declare Your praise.
16 For You do not delight in sacrifice, otherwise I would give it;
You are not pleased with burnt offering.
17 The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit;
A broken and a contrite heart, O God, You will not despise.
18 By Your favor do good to Zion;
Build the walls of Jerusalem.
19 Then You will delight in righteous sacrifices,
In burnt offering and whole burnt offering;
Then young bulls will be offered on Your altar.
For the choir director. A Psalm of David, when Nathan the prophet came to him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba.
1 Be gracious to me, O God, according to Your lovingkindness;
According to the greatness of Your compassion blot out my transgressions.
2 Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity
And cleanse me from my sin.
3 For I know my transgressions,
And my sin is ever before me.
4 Against You, You only, I have sinned
And done what is evil in Your sight,
So that You are justified when You speak
And blameless when You judge.
5 Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity,
And in sin my mother conceived me.
6 Behold, You desire truth in the innermost being,
And in the hidden part You will make me know wisdom.
7 Purify me with hyssop, and I shall be clean;
Wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.
8 Make me to hear joy and gladness,
Let the bones which You have broken rejoice.
9 Hide Your face from my sins
And blot out all my iniquities.
10 Create in me a clean heart, O God,
And renew a steadfast spirit within me.
11 Do not cast me away from Your presence
And do not take Your Holy Spirit from me.
12 Restore to me the joy of Your salvation
And sustain me with a willing spirit.
13 Then I will teach transgressors Your ways,
And sinners will be converted to You.
14 Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, the God of my salvation;
Then my tongue will joyfully sing of Your righteousness.
15 O Lord, open my lips,
That my mouth may declare Your praise.
16 For You do not delight in sacrifice, otherwise I would give it;
You are not pleased with burnt offering.
17 The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit;
A broken and a contrite heart, O God, You will not despise.
18 By Your favor do good to Zion;
Build the walls of Jerusalem.
19 Then You will delight in righteous sacrifices,
In burnt offering and whole burnt offering;
Then young bulls will be offered on Your altar.
The bubbles won’t freeze
We went from a half an inch in the shade, to over a foot of snow! It is now higher than our step in the back yard. Sadly it is not cold enough for bubbles to freeze, so I will have to try that again later. Sarah was still happy to chase the bubbles despite them not freezing. She has been coming in a white dog instead of brown, and not all of the snow on her fell from the sky. Julie likes to go out with Sarah when she can. Yesterday Julie stayed out tell she was so cold that she was in tiers. However, that has not discouraged her from wanting to go out again.
Julie and I later went out again to try getting the bubbles to freeze. We thought being about 8 degrees out that they should freeze and they did. It is cool when they are frozen because they shatter when they pop. Then their little shattered pieces either float away or fall to the ground. However, neither Julie nor I had a coat on, so we could not stay out long to watch them do this.
Julie and I later went out again to try getting the bubbles to freeze. We thought being about 8 degrees out that they should freeze and they did. It is cool when they are frozen because they shatter when they pop. Then their little shattered pieces either float away or fall to the ground. However, neither Julie nor I had a coat on, so we could not stay out long to watch them do this.
Tuesday, November 23, 2004
My computer
My computer is sick. It just freak out insanely, and we might have to reset it tonight. Hopefully it will look right than because right now it hurts my head to look at it.
Sunday, November 21, 2004
Piano freeing
Playing the piano is so freeing. You almost go into another world as you play. Everything around you just melts away, and a part of you goes with it. The world around you can be screaming for you, but you just become the music, and leave it behind.
Friday, November 19, 2004
Back!
My week has so rocked! First I decided to read Elisabeth Elliot’s book Let me be a Woman, which I had been wanting to read again some time soon. I used my time that I would have been on the net (and some other time) to read it. It was much needed, and very good.
I remember the first time I read it, about a year and a half ago, and I hated her half way through it. She was challenging my femanistic ways of thinking, and I felt she was just saying the whole be submission because women are weaker junk. Yet she makes being a woman sound like a very high calling (and yes she called it a calling). Once I got through the book (only because I was very much longing to know more about what God wanted women to be) I loved it, and immediately had to read it again to get what I missed by hating it the first time.
In this book, which is a collection of letters she wrote to her daughter before she was to get married, she shows a lot of how women need to be what God made us, and not try to be men. Even if the feminists are saying they are what we need to be equal with, we cannot and should not have to.
God also used my reading the book of Joel to really speak to me. It gave me an excitement and a greater purpose (something I was needing very badly).
My room is not so neat right now because it is being rearranged. I am trying to make a quiet place in it, like my closet in a way. It still needs a lot of work, and I cannot do it all right now because my mum does not want me moving things that are heavy on my own. I am still trying to figure out how I want it anyway, so that is okay.
Anyway, now that I have written this huge thing, I better end this post.
I remember the first time I read it, about a year and a half ago, and I hated her half way through it. She was challenging my femanistic ways of thinking, and I felt she was just saying the whole be submission because women are weaker junk. Yet she makes being a woman sound like a very high calling (and yes she called it a calling). Once I got through the book (only because I was very much longing to know more about what God wanted women to be) I loved it, and immediately had to read it again to get what I missed by hating it the first time.
To subject femininity to the criteria of masculinity is as foolish as it would be to judge meat by the standards of potatoes. Meat would fail every test. For women to assume an ersatz masculinity means that they will always lose.
You are, Valerie, by the grace of God, a woman. This means you have responsibilities. You are fully a woman, and this means you have privileges. You are only a woman, which means you have limitations. Walt is a man, he is fully a man, and he is only a man. Thank God for this, and live it to the hilt!
In this book, which is a collection of letters she wrote to her daughter before she was to get married, she shows a lot of how women need to be what God made us, and not try to be men. Even if the feminists are saying they are what we need to be equal with, we cannot and should not have to.
God also used my reading the book of Joel to really speak to me. It gave me an excitement and a greater purpose (something I was needing very badly).
My room is not so neat right now because it is being rearranged. I am trying to make a quiet place in it, like my closet in a way. It still needs a lot of work, and I cannot do it all right now because my mum does not want me moving things that are heavy on my own. I am still trying to figure out how I want it anyway, so that is okay.
Anyway, now that I have written this huge thing, I better end this post.
Friday, November 12, 2004
Slave to the net
A lot of people seem to have things they are slaves to: the phone, video games, the net, tv, listening to music . . . What do I mean by being a slave to something? It helps shape how you think, plan your day, you spend a lot of time doing it, you don’t want to live without it or will not.
Well I think the internet is becoming too much of that to me. I get on almost every day, and quite often will be on for a while. When the thought first came to me to not get on for a week, I was not so sure. I talk to a lot of people on the net, whether it is through e-mail, im, whatever, and I was not so sure I wanted to give it up. However, I think I need to for a while. So I will not be on im, bloging, checking my email, reading the d: foroum, not even working on my application to TM. I will not be on the net at all until the nineteenth or twentieth. If you find that I am, I give you permission to tell me to get off, and do so until I do (if this is hard, I may have to do it again).
So this is my goodbye for the week, goodbye (but don’t worry, I’ll be back on).
Well I think the internet is becoming too much of that to me. I get on almost every day, and quite often will be on for a while. When the thought first came to me to not get on for a week, I was not so sure. I talk to a lot of people on the net, whether it is through e-mail, im, whatever, and I was not so sure I wanted to give it up. However, I think I need to for a while. So I will not be on im, bloging, checking my email, reading the d: foroum, not even working on my application to TM. I will not be on the net at all until the nineteenth or twentieth. If you find that I am, I give you permission to tell me to get off, and do so until I do (if this is hard, I may have to do it again).
So this is my goodbye for the week, goodbye (but don’t worry, I’ll be back on).
Wednesday, November 10, 2004
His temple
This morning I was reading in the Old Testament, and I was reading about the temple. At times, I must admit, I don’t really pay much attention to how they were told to build the temple. I would think it was interesting how much detail God would give them, but my thoughts on the subject would go no further.
As I was reading this morning, something hit me, we are the temple of God! If God cared so much about how the temple was built back in the day, why would He not care just as much about us now? He gave them so much detail, and made sure nothing was left undone. Is He now doing the same in our lives? That is what I got out of it. He will make sure we are built how He wants us, a beautiful place of worship.
As I was reading this morning, something hit me, we are the temple of God! If God cared so much about how the temple was built back in the day, why would He not care just as much about us now? He gave them so much detail, and made sure nothing was left undone. Is He now doing the same in our lives? That is what I got out of it. He will make sure we are built how He wants us, a beautiful place of worship.
Tuesday, November 9, 2004
Ezekiel 37:1-10
The hand of the LORD was upon me, and He brought me out by the Spirit of the LORD and set me down in the middle of the valley; and it was full of bones.
He caused me to pass among them round about, and behold, there were very many on the surface of the valley; and lo, they were very dry.
He said to me, "Son of man, can these bones live?" And I answered, "O Lord GOD, You know."
Again He said to me, "Prophesy over these bones and say to them, 'O dry bones, hear the word of the LORD.'
"Thus says the Lord GOD to these bones, 'Behold, I will cause breath to enter you that you may come to life.
'I will put sinews on you, make flesh grow back on you, cover you with skin and put breath in you that you may come alive; and you will know that I am the LORD.'"
So I prophesied as I was commanded; and as I prophesied, there was a noise, and behold, a rattling; and the bones came together, bone to its bone.
And I looked, and behold, sinews were on them, and flesh grew and skin covered them; but there was no breath in them.
Then He said to me, "Prophesy to the breath, prophesy, son of man, and say to the breath, 'Thus says the Lord GOD, "Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe on these slain, that they come to life."'"
So I prophesied as He commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they came to life and stood on their feet, an exceedingly great army.
He caused me to pass among them round about, and behold, there were very many on the surface of the valley; and lo, they were very dry.
He said to me, "Son of man, can these bones live?" And I answered, "O Lord GOD, You know."
Again He said to me, "Prophesy over these bones and say to them, 'O dry bones, hear the word of the LORD.'
"Thus says the Lord GOD to these bones, 'Behold, I will cause breath to enter you that you may come to life.
'I will put sinews on you, make flesh grow back on you, cover you with skin and put breath in you that you may come alive; and you will know that I am the LORD.'"
So I prophesied as I was commanded; and as I prophesied, there was a noise, and behold, a rattling; and the bones came together, bone to its bone.
And I looked, and behold, sinews were on them, and flesh grew and skin covered them; but there was no breath in them.
Then He said to me, "Prophesy to the breath, prophesy, son of man, and say to the breath, 'Thus says the Lord GOD, "Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe on these slain, that they come to life."'"
So I prophesied as He commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they came to life and stood on their feet, an exceedingly great army.
Monday, November 8, 2004
At last
My glasses finally came this morning. They are more of a blue and teal like colour, and they are working fine as far as I can tell so far. They are light enough that I might be able to use them for night driving, but I will have to see about that one when someone else is driving.
Saturday, November 6, 2004
People bloging
All of the sudden almost everyone in the school I went to last year now have a blog. It is fun to help them when I can. It makes me feel are learned, but really most of the time I am just passing info along that I was given. So, yeah, now people know I don’t really know that much about it and htlm, but it is still fun.
Eighteen?
It seems like a lot of people are turning eighteen lately. I went to another friend’s party just tonight, Greg’s. He said he was going to get a tattoo, and that his dad was taking him. However, I am not believing that one.
He turned eighteen to late to vote in this election, but Marie was able to (I think she voted for Nader or Kerry :P).
He turned eighteen to late to vote in this election, but Marie was able to (I think she voted for Nader or Kerry :P).
Friday, November 5, 2004
My rantings
My glasses were two be around Monday of this week, and they are still not here. What is up?! Just because it is election week does not mean people have to mess up sending my glasses to me!
Okay, so it is not because of it being election week. It is because a little over two weeks ago, the two doctors offices messed up on faxing stuff to each other. So now I have no clue when my glasses will be coming (if only Jenn could have just picked them up for me. Maybe then I would have them by now. Alas, she is believed to be a stalker, and could not do so for me ;) ).
Okay, so it is not because of it being election week. It is because a little over two weeks ago, the two doctors offices messed up on faxing stuff to each other. So now I have no clue when my glasses will be coming (if only Jenn could have just picked them up for me. Maybe then I would have them by now. Alas, she is believed to be a stalker, and could not do so for me ;) ).
Tuesday, November 2, 2004
11th grade
I am now done with the eleventh grade, and graduating by June or July is looking more hopeful. :D
Monday, November 1, 2004
Marie is eighteen!
Marie’s eighteenth Birthday was yesterday (everyone wish her a happy birthday). She invited Joanie and I over for dinner and to just hang out. It was really good to see her and everyone else I was able to. I had not seen Marie in almost a month (since David’s going away party), and I had not seen Boby, Brianna, and little Malachi for an even longer time. We also got to see Jeremy, Emily, and Namen again.
Last night made the fact that David has moved more real to me. Before it almost seemed like he had not, in a way, because I had not even been over to see anyone. It made me miss him a lot more than I already did.
Last night made the fact that David has moved more real to me. Before it almost seemed like he had not, in a way, because I had not even been over to see anyone. It made me miss him a lot more than I already did.
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