Joshua, Judges, Ruth …

So following on my commitment from 1st September to read the bible in 90 days, I’ve fallen another day behind since last week, completing day 19 today (considering it’s the 29th September). This evening I finished reading the wonderful story of Ruth, ending an era in the history of “Gods People” and as I look forward to Samuel I eagerly await the time of “Kings” …

I’m utterly encouraged though, ’cause God has strengthened me to keep reading 12 pages a day (bar one) despite the “worldly” pressure of the major Hotel System (Opera) being upgraded on Wednesday morning, and it being an all ’round tough week at work – Add to that spending most of my weekend at Church for our Care Life Group leaders training, His Grace (and Angela’s endearing love and support) is just SO suffient!

I love Judges, as it’s still one of my favourite books – I identify so much with the ebb-and-flow that is the Christian walk in a fallen world; I was also again so blatantly reminded of God’s Sovereignty and Grace, and how all works for His Glory!

Praise the Lord for his Word to us!

Indescribable

During the course of the week I was forwarded a link to a Christian Contemporary Music Video called Indescribable – Basically just showing God’s wonderful creation, and how indescribable it all is, and ultimately, how indescribable He really is …

Was just SO wonderful to hear John Folmar’s sermon (from John 2:12-25) at church this morning echo the same message, yet so totally different, yet so very much the same!  In particular how John Folmar unpacked the Zeal described in John 2:17 was very enlightning; I really am enjoying the series on the Gospel of John!

Luke at Kay’s

Luke has been going to Kay’s for a month now (Since 1st September) and we can already see how’s he’s developing for it – Kay handed Angela this certificate for Luke’s good listening abilities during class and playgroup time, which makes us really proud ’cause he is the youngest in the group.

Here’s also the first “Take home Art” of Luke’s – Some hand-prints he made earlier in the week. It is really sweet asking him about it at home. When we hold the picture out in front of him, and he will pat down on it with his hands, as if showing us how he made it – Terribly cute! (Not too bad for our lil’ 14 month old we think)

The Bible in 90 days – Day 13

Well, considering I should be day 20 already, I’m officially badly behind, but I’m sure to catch up soon …

The excuse (and it’s a good one) is I’ve been part of the “prepare for an upgrade in 90 hours of continuous work”. We’ll upgrade our major hotel system (Micros-Fidelio Opera) next week Wednesday evening, and in preparation for that switched our “live” system to a temporary one on Tuesday morning at around 2pm – I was at work from around 1am (after Music Practice which ended at 11pm) ’till just past 4 in the afternoon because after the “switch” performance issues have be plaguing the system.

First I though the second processor on the temporary server (kindly on loan from IBM) wasn’t functioning too well as the Oracle process was eating up all the processor power, only to discover the “Loaner” was a single server puppy. IBM were amazing and within four hours (I called ‘em at 9 yesterday morning) had delivered a second processor.

Sadly, that didn’t resolve the performance problems through the night (yesterday) and this morning I realised I need to probably move the Oracle data location back onto the Storage Area Network as the single spindle Hard-drive configuration on the temporary server is just not cutting it. Tomorrow morning at 5am (whoa – That’s in 5 and a half hours) I’ll switch it over and pray it goes smoothly and I can leave work by 6:30 to make it to church on time. (Go to church on Fridays here in the Gulf, remember?)

So I hadn’t read my bible in 4 days as I’d missed reading on Monday ’cause I had to finish my Paul Trip reading for a meeting on Tuesday with John, Bode and Vineet, and Sunday evening I had only finished reading Numbers (first 4 pages of the Day 13 reading) and started falling asleep after a rather rough day at work (preparing for the chaos of this week that followed)

Anyway, before this becomes the “excuse in 90 paragraphs” I got back into things this evening, and although I only finished the remaining 8 pages I’m now deeply into Deuteronomy and can put a big tick mark next Day 13. So far these beginning chapters of Deuteronomy has been the hardest to complete due to “External” factors, but after this evening, and some catchup time in the next few days, I’ll be back on track soon as I loved the reading, with the introduction by Moses in Deut 1:2 (paraphrased as “… so we’ve now completed the 7 day journey in 40 years …”) – I’m one to talk though: 8 pages in 4 days :-)

Praise the Lord for the wonderful gift of His word!