It speaks for itself

"Each tree is recognized by its own fruit. People do not pick figs from thornbushes, or grapes from briers. The good man brings good things out of the good stored up in his heart, and the evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in his heart. For out of the overflow of his heart his mouth speaks.
'Why do you call me, 'Lord, Lord,' and do not do what I say?'" - Luke 6: 44-46

a friend in need is a friend indeed

And I am that friend. Thanks for hanging out with me and talking even though you are incredibly busy and exhausted from your labour. You know who you are.

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I wonder if being this busy and tired is the way things are supposed to be. I wonder if I should continue to push myself to do things and keep myself busy even if I don't want to. Is this what life is actually like? I keep thinking that one day I will slow down. I'll stop being involved in so many thing and then I will be less busy and have more time to relax. I'm not sure that I want more time to relax. I'm not even sure I know how to relax.

"Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy. Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God. On it you shall not do any work, neither you, nor your son or daughter, nor your manservant or maidservant, nor your animals, nor the alien within your gates. For in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, but he rested on the seventh day. Therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy."

a pencil and nail gun

This post has been a long time in coming. The last post I made was on April 24...it's now May 15th. There a variety of different reasons for this lack of activity which I won't get into because that would be terribly boring.

The last couple of weeks I have been working for Tim Kieft. We put the trim around windows and porches. It's pretty fun. The work is decent, but the guys I work with are really great. We have a really good time laughing and joking around and throwing stuff at each other. It's really cool having a job where you can work from 7:00 in the morning until 6:30 at night and not be mad about doing the same thing again the next day. That kind of summer job is tough to come by.

One thing I find frustrating about working such long hours is that it is really tough to find time to be alone and to be quiet with the Lord. It's so easy to just get into the routine of work and sleep and just go with it, without putting any really effort into prayer or Bible study. I'm really glad that God is more faithful than I am.