August 21, 2018. 8:12pm. Today was a decent day. I wasn’t as lethargic as yesterday when I woke up, so that was a good thing! I did turn on my radio on my way to work (which is only about two minutes, by the way), and I listened to two songs. The first one was “Eye of the Storm” by Ryan Stevenson.
The second song was “Reckless Love” by Cory Asbury. I don’t know that I have ever heard this song on the radio; however, I recognized it because I have heard it before at church. When it played, I was reminded of an article that I recently saved in my email and have been meaning to look at. I get daily emails from a site called Daily Bible Living, and the emails contain articles from the Bible Study Tools site. I recently received an email with the subject, “Is God’s Love a Reckless Love?” This caught my attention, and as I mentioned earlier I saved it in my email with plans of reading it soon. After the song played this morning, I decided to go ahead and read the article. It is a very good, eye-opening article. First let me share the song and then I’ll talk more about the article.
The author of the article mentions that “In just about every context, the word ‘reckless’ either means not heeding danger or not knowing the outcome and acting anyway.” He gives the example of a parent who rushes into a burning house to rescue a child. This is “reckless” due to the fact that they are ignoring the danger and the risk of death. He then states, “God’s love, on the other hand, is incredibly intentional and fully omniscient, and that’s what makes it so beautiful. When it comes to saving and rescuing and redeeming and loving us, God knew EXACTLY what he was getting into.” WOW. An excellent point! There’s much more to the article but that is the main thing that I wanted to share here. If you are interested in reading the entire article it can be found at https://www.biblestudytools.com/blogs/stephen-altrogge/is-god-s-love-a-reckless-love.html
So, yesterday I mentioned the Natural Calm Magnesium gummies that I started taking. I am two days in and I still believe they are really helping me. It was another “calm” day for me, even when things got a little hectic / stressful. My morning classes have been going smoothly and stress-free. It is my 6th Period and 7th Period classes that are going to test my patience this year. Ha ha. We have a total of eight periods this year. My two off periods are both in the morning, so my afternoons are LONG. Four classes in a row with no break.
A really cool thing happened this afternoon. A boy in my 5th Period class finished his work early and borrowed a book from my personal library. Towards the end of class he came to my desk and told me that he found something about one of my relatives. What??!! He had gotten a book about the Wild West. On a page titled “Best Epitaphs” there is an epitaph for a Mac McDermott and it says:
Died February 1873; McDermott shot Casey’s friend; So Casey shot McDermott. Eye for an eye and tooth for a tooth. The frontier code.” WOW. Very interesting! I love historical stuff like that!
I was once again exhausted by the end of the day…..not near as bad as yesterday, but still exhausted. I needed to wrap up a few things and I left around 4:30. I have to say, this seems to be the smoothest start to a school year that I have had yet. In the past, I have typically stayed and worked late for the first week or two of school. It has not been like that so far this year, and I am grateful! I DO bring work home, though. Ha ha! Today I came straight home. I graded some papers this evening while watching TV, then I started typing! My new book (“Finding God in My Loneliness”) arrived today, but I STILL have to finish “It’s Ok That You’re Not Ok” (I didn’t finish it last night). I am going to try and read now.
Oh! Don’t laugh at me! I just took a drink of something super tasty and thought I would share what it is. Do you like tea? Do you like tea with lemon?? Do you like sweet tea, but with natural sweeteners instead of sugar?? WELL…..if you have not seen it before, you need to check out bai Antioxidant infused Tanzania Lemon Supertea. It is so good! I purchased it from Walmart. I have not checked at H-E-B to see if they carry it, but I do know they carry the bai brand. There’s your healthy recommendation for the day! Ha ha! Until next time…..
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