New Years Resolution 2010

- Keep my room clean for the entire year
- Actually listen in lectures and do tut work
- Distinction Term WAM
- Save up for a car
- Eat out less ($10- for lunch, $20- for dinner)
- Keep a personal budget (no splurging)
- Reread the Bible cover to cover
- Get up 1 hour earlier every morning
- Sleep before 1am

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Acts 12 - The Miraculous Release

I love how sometimes we read a passage and go "HA! As if!"

So there's a bunch of people who gathered at a house for a special prayer meeting, specifically for Peter's release from prison, and he gets released with the help of an angel but they don't believe it when he's free. It makes all the prayer meetings we do seem like a joke. But I guess it's only when really personal things happen that's when we don't believe. For big things, like if we prayed for church expansion and something miraculous happened and we acquired a new building out of nowhere, that's more believable than if I prayed for my foot and tomorrow it's healed.

I wonder how many times Peter rolled his eyes that night.

2nd week of work life

Okay, sorry to all of those people who had to endure my constant ranting about how exciting work is. And how passionate and hardworking I've been. I've come back to work today, first day of the 2nd week, and the novelty has officially wore off. I just want to go home and sleep and bludge all day and be a couch potato.

Before this vaccie program started, everybody I knew told me about the temptations that I'd be getting. Even a friend of a friend who I've only met once, she told me to be careful not to let work takeover my life. I politely said I'd pay attention to be careful to every single one of them, but really, inside of me I was just thinking, "yeah right, as if I'll be ambitious and let work takeover. get real."

But it only took one week for me to fall. At the end of last week, after our Friday work drinks, we planned for drinks for the week after as well. That means it would clash with my youthgroup commitments. It took me only 1 second to decide, "Oh, I'll have to give youthgroup a miss."

Luckily, at church one of my mentors kept me accountable and asked, "Do you believe that God needs you to attend all the social functions in order for Him to give you the job? If it's any other commitments, then vaccies drinks should come first, but definitely not youthgroup. I guarantee that you won't get the job if you skip youthgroup to attend a work function. That's my Theology." Then it finally hit me that I already subconciously changed my priority and my faith is already different.

We've also been getting sermons on Ruth at the moment, and we saw how Elimelech didn't trust in God and used his own wisdom to take care of his family. By doing that, he had to go to Moab and his children died there with him. In the end they didn't really get what they needed, it was until God provided for Ruth BACK at where they were from, that's when they prospered. I need to keep that in mind. Lets see how this week goes!