Something Deep Inside
I arrived at work pretty early today due to Tiffany having to drop me off on her way to work, so I've decided to go ahead and write a little blog here. I have no idea how this will turn out, as I believe this is my first early-morning blog. It's quite possible it could be as unfocused as my late-night blogs, but we'll have to see. I'm extremely tired this morning for some reason, and my back hurt a little worse than normal as I got out of bed. I think I actually tried to lift myself up when I woke up instead of rolling out of bed (literally) like I normally do, so maybe it doesn't hurt worse than normal, but I just strained it differently or something. I really need to go to a chiropractor, I know.
Tiffany finished Jury Duty yesterday, and then we went to church. Marty had a good message about when it's better to receive than give (or to be served than serve). I've been reading the Word a lot lately and it's still great, of course. I'm still hungry for more, and it keeps me reading more. It also helps that I can get on Bible Gateway at work and read it in between calls or on breaks and lunches and stuff. I'm up to Romans 10 (after starting in Acts just after camp) and I'm really enjoying Romans. I've studied it before, but it was when I was younger so I'm picking up on more. Also, having read Acts, I know who Paul is. I guess I never really knew Paul's story, and always assumed that he was a disciple from the Gospels. Dumb. You know, I read through some of this stuff, and I'm starting to realize how young I am in the knowledge of my faith. It's kind of sad, but I'm fixing it by reading so much and actually retaining what I'm reading, I suppose. In fact, I've read so much and grown so much since camp that I feel like it's been weeks or months. It's weird, because it's not like the past two weeks have gone by incredibly slowly or anything, but I feel very separated (only time-wise) from camp.
Work isn't terrible lately, which is good. We've been taking calls this week, but the past two days (and today) I've been getting a lot of time off the phones still, so that probably has a lot to do with it. However, as I've mentioned before, reading the Bible between calls and listening to some good Christian music (Skillet, anyone?) is helping. It's the small things, I guess.
So, from looking at Facebook (I'll be comfirming this soon), it looks like Ross is participating in Shakespeare in the Park this year. That's pretty cool. I didn't realize that it had already started. Silly me. I need to stop reading the Bible so much and start reading the Gazette... right? No? Okay. Anyways, I'm pretty sure he doesn't read this, so if anyone wants to join, my wife and I will probably be going at some point, so let me know. Thanks for reading, COMMENT, and I'm sure I'll see you soon. **By the way, really quickly, gotta drop a shoutout (that's what these young 'uns call 'em these here days) to Alex's New Blog.** Speaking of Alex, you mentioned while we were at Mom's that you read about something in my blog, which means you read, but you're not commenting. Unacceptable. Comment, loser.
*My name is Ryan J. Schwimmer, and I approve this Blog Morning America.*
Tiffany finished Jury Duty yesterday, and then we went to church. Marty had a good message about when it's better to receive than give (or to be served than serve). I've been reading the Word a lot lately and it's still great, of course. I'm still hungry for more, and it keeps me reading more. It also helps that I can get on Bible Gateway at work and read it in between calls or on breaks and lunches and stuff. I'm up to Romans 10 (after starting in Acts just after camp) and I'm really enjoying Romans. I've studied it before, but it was when I was younger so I'm picking up on more. Also, having read Acts, I know who Paul is. I guess I never really knew Paul's story, and always assumed that he was a disciple from the Gospels. Dumb. You know, I read through some of this stuff, and I'm starting to realize how young I am in the knowledge of my faith. It's kind of sad, but I'm fixing it by reading so much and actually retaining what I'm reading, I suppose. In fact, I've read so much and grown so much since camp that I feel like it's been weeks or months. It's weird, because it's not like the past two weeks have gone by incredibly slowly or anything, but I feel very separated (only time-wise) from camp.
Work isn't terrible lately, which is good. We've been taking calls this week, but the past two days (and today) I've been getting a lot of time off the phones still, so that probably has a lot to do with it. However, as I've mentioned before, reading the Bible between calls and listening to some good Christian music (Skillet, anyone?) is helping. It's the small things, I guess.
So, from looking at Facebook (I'll be comfirming this soon), it looks like Ross is participating in Shakespeare in the Park this year. That's pretty cool. I didn't realize that it had already started. Silly me. I need to stop reading the Bible so much and start reading the Gazette... right? No? Okay. Anyways, I'm pretty sure he doesn't read this, so if anyone wants to join, my wife and I will probably be going at some point, so let me know. Thanks for reading, COMMENT, and I'm sure I'll see you soon. **By the way, really quickly, gotta drop a shoutout (that's what these young 'uns call 'em these here days) to Alex's New Blog.** Speaking of Alex, you mentioned while we were at Mom's that you read about something in my blog, which means you read, but you're not commenting. Unacceptable. Comment, loser.
*My name is Ryan J. Schwimmer, and I approve this Blog Morning America.*
Glad to hear everything with the Lord is going well. It has inspired me to try to get back into it more. I haven't been reading the bible much, but I'm learning about Jesus in other ways easier for me to understand. I'm reading a book called "Searching for God Knows What." It's pretty interested on this guys assumption on why Jesus did what he did and how an alien would view humans.
Such things as. If you notice, people are in constant competition to prove they are better than someone else. He said pay attention to conversations at work and everywhere else and you'll realize just how much everyone is trying to stay the most popular and cool person. He said that is why Jesus is really spectacular. He went from a place where God gives Him everything and all the love He needs then comes to earth only to find that we want that love from God but fill it with things we think are important and try to get love from other people as a result. Pretty interesting view I thought.
So Jesus treats all living things as important and loves them. SO...he rode the donkey into town for several reasons but I think I thought of another. He could have ridden a huge beautiful horse, but instead chose the donkey because the donkey is just as important and amazing of a creature to him as the horse was... Chew on that for a bit. Same reason as why he loves everyone and not just groups of people.
PACE
Colorado Sun-Thurs next week.
-D.A.