today is blah-day, january 18th, 2012

today was much like yesterday - only more like it...

when work is slow, i tend to think a lot about what i need to get done at home. then i get home and am unmotivated to get anything done. but my brain won't stop thinking of things to do. maybe it was a good thing that rachel called sarah to ask for help with the 2-3 year olds tonight at church. that left me home alone with isaac while the girls all went to the church building together. that meant i had to spend time with the little man... man-t0-man!

i started off by playing on the wii while isaac pretended to play on the wii. then he was on the couch. then it was this. then it was that. then he got bored, and i had to turn the wii off and be present... which is fine, because that's the fun part of being a dad.

i did have a meeting for church this morning. after sliding through the snow to the church building, it was good to review some of the material from the coaching book referenced in yesterday's blog with some of the other leaders.

sarah messaged me a picture (see below) of isaac midday. apparently, she heard noise in the living room and went to check on him. he had turned the tv AND the wii on and was swinging one of the wii remotes at the tv. what a smart, techie of a toddler!

i can't say i learned anything new today though. again - i hate days like this. but i was able to continue to reflect on the things God has been teaching me lately. if anything was new to my brain today, it was a simple, renewed admiration of joseph in the old testament. i can't imagine waking up one day in his shoes, the favorite of his father with everything going for him... then you're sold into slavery by your own brothers. yet God was with him... and he prospered. i don't know about you, but if my life turned like that, i only hope i could turn to the Lord in such a way as to be blessed as he was. i'd like to think that situation would draw me closer to Him, but it's also as likely that i'd get sucked into self-pity.

substituting for "favorite bible verse read today": oswald chambers - "beware of anything that competes with loyalty to Jesus Christ... the one aim of the call of God is the satisfaction of God, not a call to do something for Him."

favorite picture (as noted above - taken by sarah):

wish i had something more profound for anyone reading this today... but we all have days like that i suppose...