I found out last week that she’ll be leaving on Wednesday. I’ve had her for over a year, and I’ve really enjoyed having her. She’s been really good to work with, and cool to get to know!!! We’ll be celebrating my birthday on Wednesday. I’m ordering chinese that day, as my birthday is on Monday. I’m doing this so she can help with the delivery.
Reflections on 1 year ago today!
A year ago today, I was celebrating because Julian Assange landed in Australia. I couldn’t believe it! This was the time during which I was unreachable, because I was catching up on Karen Read trial 1. When the world finally did reach me early in the morning on June 26th, I learned that there had been a plea agreement, and Julian had been released. I celebrated for five days at least, until the mistrial in the Read case came, but it was longer than that, I just remember seeing the mistrial.
I got up early that day too, like I did this year! I think it was 2:30 in the morning or so, and this year, I got up around 3. I woke up to get water, and go to the bathroom. I ended up looking at my Youtube subscriptions feed to put something on so I could fall back asleep. I saw “Julian Assange is finally free,” twice in the feed. I remember looking down and seeing legalvices streaming, who’s no longer with us. It probably only took a couple of minutes or less, before I really needed to go look at what was happening with Julian’s case!!
Quick takes post for Saturday.
Yeah these are usually posted on Friday, but I didn’t get myself over here to do it! Needless to say, you get Seven quick takes on Saturday, and yeah I should’ve done this sooner!
- The defense started yesterday in the Read case! They called an expert in vehicle event data.
- My rent is going up by quite a bit as of tomorrow.
- As a result, I’m taking a break from church. I’m not able to find transportation, and I can’t afford to keep going via Uber.
- After Read is over, I need to get back to the Simpson archivals! I really should’ve gotten back to them after the end of my class!!
- I’m testing a couple different RSS reader services as of late, as I always am. Feedify,
and Feedgrab - I want to be on Facebook, but don’t really want to have my family find me on there. I would rather them not track down everything I’m posting, and yell at me about it. I want to make a fake account. I’ve tried this a couple times, but it has failed so far. Facebook thinks I’m impersonating someone when I try to use a different name, that isn’t my own. I’m not impersonating someone, I’m trying to keep the profile private.
- I downloaded the book, The Artist’s Way, from Audible. We’ll see where it goes. It’s something I’ve always wanted to read, and/or try.
I’m now an MTI graduate!
I graduated from my seven month long bible class today! I had to go back to my old church to do so. There were times that I really, really wanted to quit the class! In fact, I was just done with the whole thing last month, and thought I would drop out before the end. Thankfully I didn’t, and got to stand on the stage, and receive my certificate with the others.
The service was streamed, so I have a link with a time code. I thought what a local pastor said was really cool, so I started the time a bit before our portion. Apparently my former church has been helping them recover from some recent flooding we’ve had.
link to the service stream.
Recorded version of the sermon.
Here’s a recorded version of the sermon that I posted earlier. link to recording. If you didn’t like the long text, maybe you’ll like the just over seven minute recording!
Full sermon text.
32 years ago this summer at vacation Bible school, I gave my life to Jesus. I was just shy of 10 years old, and didn’t know what to expect. I grew up in a non-Christian home.
We went to church for around six months when I was little, and my Grandpa, and friends provided influence that my parents didn’t. As a result Jesus was brought up at Easter and Christmas, but not much else. I did have friends at school, who were believing at the time, thankfully! The question I most remember asking my formerly Catholic grandfather was, Grandpa, “what is Easter actually about?” It was then, when I was around 7 or 8, that he told me the story of God and Jesus.
I grew up with a mom who really didn’t know what to do with me, which is honestly not her fault, because youu don’t get a parenting manual when kids our born, you just have to rely on your own ingenuity and innovation. Oh, and a vision teacher who constantly decided to reprimand me, because that was just her way of doing things! She even interrupted other teachers to do so.
To her credit, she thought I could do more than my parents ever did. Not so much more, though. She did have me enrolled in ballet class, when I heard my dad say to me at the very beginning of my first year, “you can’t take ballet lessons.” However, my parents and her both thought I would never graduate high school, and they nearly made sure I didn’t, even though I was on full track to graduate, I was thrown into the remand and sentence system.
In other words, I was given a modified diploma, forced to take an incomplete in one of my classes, and sent to an institution for three years. Fortunately, the place no longer exists today!
During this time, I prayed daily, and relied on my faith. Even though I did not have biblical knowledge, I relied on what my school friends, and my Grandpa told me. That The Lord died for me, and that he rose again on Easter Sunday, and also, that he would be my savior for the rest of my life!
Romans 5:8 says, But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. John 3:16-17 state:
16 For God so loved the world that He gave His only begottenSon, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.
17 For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.
Now is the time for me to ask you, if you would like to know Jesus like I do, if you want him to come into your heart, and be your Lord and savior?
This is only the first step. The next step is to be baptized with the holy spirit, and receive the gifts that he wants to give us! Without the gifts, we make ineffective witnesses! In other words, we wouldn’t be able to “go and make disciples of all nations,” as Matthew 28:19 says.
The baptism of the holy spirit is extensively discussed in scripture, something I don’t have time to get to today, however I will get to these two things. acts 1:5says for John truly baptized with water,but you shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days from now.”
Acts 1:8 says But you shall receive powerwhen the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be witnesses to Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea andSamaria, and to the end of the earth.”
Now, would all of you like to be baptized with the holy spirit, and have all of the gifts?
The last and final step, is to ask anyone if they need healing. In addition to being our Lord and savior, and sending the holy spirit to guide us, Jesus is also our healer. What do I mean by this? he will heal anyone with any kind of issue physical, or emotional.
Isaia 53:5 states:
But he was pierced for our transgressions,
he was crushed for our iniquities;
the punishment that brought us peace was on him,
and by his wounds we are healed.
James 5:14-15 ssay:
14 Is anyone among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the church, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord. 15 And the prayer of faith will save the sick, and the Lord will raise him up. And if he has committed sins, he will be forgiven.
So, is anyone here sick, or injured? I would like to pray for healing for you!
Quick takes style post.
I haven’t done one of these in a really long while! Well, or ever on this blog lol. There used to be a meme called seven quick takes, where people would list seven random things every Friday. I participated a few times here and there, and I’ve been wanting to do a quick takes-style post here for a while, so I thought I’d do it today. no, no guarantees I’ll get to seven!
- Right now, case-wise, I’m following Karen Read! That’s a very strange case, with a whole lot of twists. Yesterday, there was a day-long hearing in the case, that included a motion hearing in another case, because the prosecutor filed the motion in the wrong case, or at least it appears that way. In other words, the motion was filed in the someone elses case, but it related to Karen read. Although it involved trying to get a reporter’s phones, so it was filed in his case, yeah the reporter has a case, don’t ask, it’s Massachusetts!!
- I’ve had so many doctor’s appointments lately, that I’ve had to reschedule them for double booking twice, and no, I didn’t do it on purpose!! Last month, I had my semiannual endochrinology appointment, and a neurology follow-up, on the same day! This month, I had a therapy appointment and the rescheduled neurology follow-up on the exact same day!
- I’m testing RSS readers again, looking at self-hosting more this time, but I’m open to trying most anything! I did get to try Miniflux, and unfortunately it’s changed to a timeline view.
- I’m not a fan of timeline view! I’m more a fan of what I like to call “feeds list” view, but you could call it Google reader view, where it shows you the list of feeds first, then it might show you a few things, but I just want to see a list of feeds.
- I’d like to be able to post more infrequent, status-like things here, but the thing is, CP wants me to add a Title, so my literal brain has a bit of a dilemma, do I add a generic one, or do I not add one at all? There is a post format feature, but oddly enough it doesn’t always show up.
- After my next two appointments, one at the end of this month, and one next month, I’m pretty sure my therapist is releasing me. There are just a couple more things that I’d like to work on, so I’m thinking I might get into faith-based therapy if I can, or maybe do some online therapy.
- Last year, I wanted to archive the Simpson trial for the 30th anniversary. I’ve started that project here, but lately I’ve been lax in the project. I haven’t given up though, and I’m going to keep going, although it will probably slow down even more when Karen Read goes to trial on April 1st.
- Bible class was canceled last weekend because of flooding, and this weekend is spring break. We have two weeks off. I’m sure hoping to get to church this weekend, I don’t have a ride as of yet, so I’ll be relying on Uber again.
Well, looks like we had seven and one more! I’m thinking of doing this every-so-often.
Stuff going on here lately.
I went to church yesterday! Because Uber has been a big problem here lately, and has been holding me at connecting to driver. My dad brought me to church. Oh, and also class was canceled last night, so I didn’t have to practice dealing with demons, thankfully. I’ll have to do it in a couple weeks.
I had an audiology appointment last week, and I have mild to moderate hearing loss in my right ear, but none in my left ear. Since they don’t know why there’s a difference, he suggested I go see an ENT first, which I’m sure I will do at some point. My mom is doing well, but not back to work or driving as of yet.
Mom is home.
Dad called me earlier today to tell me she was released yesterday. He called just before I was leaving for my second doctor’s appointment of the week. The doctor’s appointment went well, accept for the fact that I thought I was going to get stranded there, because the doctor was running behind!
Counseling, and mom takes a trip to the hospital.
I had counseling today. We mostly talked about church, and how to get my transportation covered, so that I don’t have to pay for an Uber back and forth.
On Sunday, I set up an Uber to go home, when the couple who took me home the weekend before, came and asked if I needed a ride. The driver was suppose to be at the church in two minutes, so I couldn’t cancel it. They ended up giving me $10 to cover my trip home!
Mom went to the hospital this morning. They didn’t know what was wrong at first, but the CT scan showed a small stroke. Last I checked with my sister, they were still in the emergency room, waiting to be admitted.
They’re consulting with doctor’s in Portland. Mom has a history of brain aneurisms, so putting her on blood thinners most likely wouldn’t be the best option. I told my sister that I had a doctor’s appointment today, I didn’t tell her what the appointment was. They told me that if more people come they would have to rotate, as they’re still in the ER.