Oh, man, it’s so easy to update now. Looky, multiple updates!
I just got an email from a fellow MacAddict member whose girlfriend has just accepted his proposal of marriage! Let’s all give a big congratulations to Danny Wright (known as “kyboyblue” on the forums) and his future bride!
In other news, I’m really focusing on my business plan, which is looking better and better as time goes by. If the Lord wills, I’ve got a bright six months ahead of me, with August being the “planting” season, and September bringing in the harvest.
I read a great quote from J.I. Packer’s Knowing God:
To be sure, there have always been some who have found the thought of grace so overwhelmingly wonderful that they could never get over it. But many church people are not like this. They may pay lip service to the idea of grace, but there they stop. Their conception of grace is not so much debased or non-existent. The thought means nothing to them; it does not touch their experience at all. Talk to them about the church’s heating, or last year’s accounts, and they are with you at once; but speak to them about the realities to which the word grace points, and their attitude is one of deferential blankness. They do not accuse you of talking nonsense; they do not doubt that your words have meaning; but they feel that, whatever it is you are talking about, it is beyond them, and the longer they have lived without it the surer they are that at their stage of life they do not really need it.
I sometimes feel that way, as if I’ve heard a great symphony that touched my soul deeply… then I try to share that feeling with someone who hasn’t heard it. It’s like these people are satisfied with their outward Christianity, and agree with my points about grace, but who don’t feel it. This is not owing to any credit on my part; God has indeed changed my affections to be absolutely in love with His grace, where it is becoming my passion and making serious changes in my every-day living.
Enough for now. Off to bed with me.
