Abortion on the Decline

I was reading another blog and the article was worth repeating – so I mention it here. Synopsis is that Abortion as of 2005 was the lowest it has been since 1974! That is a great thing! I wish we had newer data, but this is a positive thing, and I’m glad the New York Times ran an article on it.

In the end, I hope that abortion rates continue to go down. There are alternatives, and it is a very scary thing for some women to have to go through. The author of the blog I mentioned talks about how she approaches talking about the issue. I think it’s a good read, for those interested.

My Church Family Rocks!

I just gotta say that my church family at Calvary Chapel on the Lakeshore is awesome!

My wife had her Gallbladder removed last Friday. We had done a sufficient job of keeping it under wraps until the Sunday prior. It was a laproscopic surgery, and everything went smoothly, and we aren’t the kind of people to create a fuss over ourselves. Nonetheless, our church STILL wanted to make sure we were ok. So they decided to feed us. For the last three nights, a different family has stopped by each night with dinner for our family. We would really have been ok without it, but man oh man, what a blessing! It means so much to have this family that cares about us, and goes out of their way to make sure there is one less thing we have to worry about while she recovers.

THANK YOU ALL!

By the way, if you are around Muskegon or the surrounding area on Sunday moning or evening, or Thursday evening stop by and worship with us! We study through the Bible verse-by-verse each week. The pastor is a little off, but we love God anyway.

Not liking Linux right now

OK , I know a lot of people like Linux. In fact, they adore it. And if you have even been on the internet, you’ve probably seen geeks blog and brag about how great it is. Well, I took on a small project recently that involved Linux. Shorty story – there’s good, bad, and ugly. Some of it is self-imposed, but I’m definitely going to write more on this one later…

Frustration!

I am feeling really frustrated right now. I don’t usually blog about my personal moods, but this one makes me mad!

I’ve had a problem lately. I spend too much time on the internet. I’ve pared down much of the time I spend at home on the internet, but I have a tendency to get on at work for way too long. So today I’ve been doing better. I limited my time in the morning, and started attacking real work. I spent at least an hour typing out and composing an informational email to be used internally. It was about a topic I know very well, and I really enjoyed it and was proud of it. However, I felt it important to run it by my boss for a second opinion. You never know what the higher-ups do and do not want to tell the lower-downs…

So I gave it to my boss and asked him to look it over for me and suggest any revisions. Well, he did. Basically he recommended taking out about 50% of the useful content. I really didn’t want to do that, so I talked with him about it for 5-10 minutes. He finally allowed me to at least keep the content in the email (even if he didn’t see my point), but he wanted me to basically take this informational email and make it a sales pitch. I wrote the article as an informative piece to people who are fairly intelligent. I think my boss basically wants me to dumb it down and advertise to the audience instead.

It FRUSTRATES ME SO MUCH!!!! Ahh. now that I got that out of my system.

The problem really comes in when I first seek the kingdom of heaven. The Bible tells us to submit to all authority, and as I write this, I have referenced the verses that really bring that home. Romans 13 and 1 Peter 2. It is kind of amazing how I get so worked up about this, and 3 minutes in the word can bring such peace over me. It’s not about my boss and me. It’s about God. My whole life has to be about God. There is too much at stake, to be wrong.

The part I really struggle with is that I doubt the competence of my boss. He is new to the company, and he hasn’t shown himself to be the most knowledgeable source on…well, many things. Nonetheless, I view him as an authority. And shouldn’t Christians be The Best workers, because we are working for Christ? Part of that would be listening to your boss.

Well, I certainly feel convicted about this, and I need to talk this over with my boss again. I usually find that when I calm down and communicate with people, things go more smoothly. Chances are, he just didn’t understand my motivation behind this, and my overall goal of better communication. And I’m sure that I overreacted because this project was my kid, and he called my kid ugly. Maybe I should detach a little, huh? In any case, I will update when I have a bit more to update.

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