I gave the message in church yesterday. HERE it is for the archive.
After church, I drove down to school to get some planning done. Teaching at a new school and teaching new classes requires a fair amount of plan work. I’m excited about it, but also a bit trepidatious. It’s like I’m at the beginning of an enormous marathon. But I have to say that more than anything, I’m having a TON of fun.
As I was working yesterday, I started to feel sleepy. Around 2 or 3 in the afternoon is always the worst for me. I decided to skip all the preliminaries and break out the big guns: I put my CD by Electric Light Orchestra in the CD player. The album is called “Time”. It’s a science fiction themed album. I know all the words to every song. It was what I used to play on long car trips when I was trying to stay awake while driving. My body is now programmed to wake up whenever I hear these songs – especially because I sing all of them at the top of my lungs. I’m glad no one else was at school.
REO Speedwagon, Greatest Hits. That’s mine.
Does everyone have an emergency CD, or is it genetic?
Boston – Third Stage!
“ItseitherrealoritsadreamtheresnothingthatisinbetweenTWILIGHT…I only meant to stay a while…”
I think I need to listen to that today. 🙂
Ha! Let’s hear it for music revving up the soul! I hope it was a productive day. Now, off to read your message!
Ok, message read. You wrote very well, and thank you for the thoughts to chew on. I was telling Lloyd that the last part of that passage always struck me as the passive-aggressive person’s dream: be nice so that burning coals will be heaped on your enemy’s head. “I’m going to be sooooo nice to you, you’ll pay!” I understand that I am missing the ‘no vengeance’ point of the passage. 😉
The Bible notes I read said that that was a quote from Psalms, and originally it did have a little bit more of a “stick it to ’em” meaning, but Paul was using the quote to say that a Christian would not seek personal vengeance, because that’s not what a Christian does.
When does your school start? Ours Started on the 11th….Blessings & Love From Aunt Bev 🙂
We had two and a half days last week. We’ll have four days this week, then five days next week.