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Thankful for Thanksgiving
What a great long weekend. Mom and I went for a date on Friday night and finished our weekend cleaning up after a wonderful Thanksgiving dinner.
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I don't trust God
Mom gave me a book yesterday by Kevin Adams titled "The Extravagant Fool" which I just finished reading (it is 8:55 PM) and felt prompted to write this entry.
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Bug Brown turns 10
What a weekend. Cole turned 10 this weekend and had a sleepover with Declan, Kaleb, Carter, Peton and Cade - it was quite a party.
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Oktober
October 1st. Again. The fall is always an interesting time for me. I am not sure if I panic more because the end of the year is coming or because my birthday is coming and I am another year older.
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For better or worse
Today I pushed the magical button and the new mlenow. ca website went live. There is a tonne of work still to do but I can transition all of the changes over time.
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Do
"... apart from me you can do nothing." John 15:5 I find myself thinking a lot about this concept these days.
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It's 2:08 AM
Well I just finished uploading the new mlenow website to our server and it is 2:08 AM in the morning, Sunday September 21, 2014.
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Day fore
I am so close to the end of the mlenow build but have some minor problems that are taking a long time to fix. I have been trying to balance the relaunch with everyday activities and am feeling tapped out.
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Day too
This too shall pass - a famous line that I think is in the bible. Well it was worth getting up early today as I was able to complete a tonne of coding before the day turned over at 9 am.
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Day won
Today I was at my desk before 6 AM as I have decided to get into work early each day to make sure that the upgrade of mlenow is completed for Friday.
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Sunday night and all is quiet
It's 8:22 pm and Cole and Cade just finished saying good night to me while I was ironing my shirts for the week and listening to a podcast by Timothy Keller about the Holy Spirit.
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Desires of my heart
God plants the desires in our hearts and then allows our circumstances to chip away anything (i. e. pride) that is preventing the desires from becoming realities.
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Function versus Purpose
This past week I feel that I have come to understand the very thing that I have been wrestling with. For the past decade I have been an entrepreneur whose function has been getting people and businesses financing for various reasons.
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Sudden disaster
Proverbs 3:25-26 - "Have no fear of sudden disaster or of the ruin that overtakes the wicked, for the Lord will be your confidence and will keep your foot from being snared."
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Goals are still tricky
Phillipans 3:12 to 14 tells me about Paul and the Christian race. My footnotes tell me that Paul's goal is Christ's goal for him and Christ supplies the resources for him to "press on toward the goal".
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Accept my words
Proverbs 2 - "My son, if you accept my words and store up my commands within you...
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Every moment of every day
Some interesting thoughts to capture from this week. I woke up this morning and all of the dots seemed to be connecting on an idea that has not crossed my mind before.
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