What's to fear?

A lot seemed to have happend over the past few days...

The bank has finally agreed to sell us the condo, but now the trouble seems that I have some weird record on my credit report that needs to be cleared up... hopefully that can be taken care of soon so that I can get a good interest rate for my loan...

We also managed to successfully reproduce the sizzling steak on the plate trick like Ruth Chris'..., our meat is still not as tender, but oh well, surely they're using more expensive meat! ;)

Wife and I also figured out an way to help cure my forgetfulness..., by reducing playstation time by an hour... (I have a maximum 5 hr quota/week!) So hopefully that works out good for everyone! ;)

Tonite we also celebrated my brother's 40th birthday at parents house. Probably ate too much, also brought alot of stuff home... we also learned a couple of new recipes... we'll see how those turn out!

Anyway, today Pastor Jim's sermon was kinda interesting... he talked about pits... he even used auto racing as example! Explaining that like race cars, pitstops are necessary for us to go further down the road! Some pits we may slip into, by sinning perhaps..., some pits in life we might be thrown into due to various circumstances not within our control... and the last was the kind of the pit where we should jump into! The example he used was Benaiah son of Jehoiada (2 Samuel 23:20), who chased lions into the pit and kill it! The kind of pit, pastor Jim explained, is a pit where our greatest fear and our greatest dream is in... in order to true realize our full potential, we sometime gotta just jump in this pit to face and fight our fear. Bottomline is that all these pits of life have a similar purpose... which is that what doesn't kill you, will make you stronger!

As children of God, since there's no way we can possibly be truly killed..., I suppose we all should jump into these pits so that we can become better! But may God be with us though! ;) Today's scripture reading was about Joshua taking over after Moses. Moses also encouraged him to be strong and courageous! Sure, we can all have fear, what's important is that we also have courage to face it and to conquor whatever it is we fear! If God is with us, what can be against us?

(Deut 31-34, 174.2 lbs(Friday weight), $4.599)