"In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world." –John 16:33

Day: September 29, 2009

Gravity

Several things have happened in the past couple of weeks that merit serious thought and gravity.  In a way, the fact that these things happened is good. It is difficult to stress how easy it is for me to fall into self-centeredness, self-pity, vanity.  The things that happened are very sad, but they help to snap me out of myself.

On Friday I learned of a friend of a friend who was terribly injured and burned in a freak car accident. She is just sixteen. I know we would have been good friends if we lived closer.  My thoughts have not left her or her family for the past four days.  We are praying for her swift recovery!  Also, two of my good friends have very recently lost a loved one. I don’t personally know the girl who was injured, or my friend’s loved ones, but their lives have impacted my life a little in a good way.  Life is much, much, much too short to worry about the outside, to be caught up in silly physical things, to be caught up in yourself.

A programming rush

We are trying very hard at work to make some significant improvements
to our product before mid-November.  My part of that includes the
development of a bunch of C++ and C# programs.  Christian and I want to
work on our programs at home while I have been feeling the need to get
Kelly started doing some kind of programming so she will be ready to
take the one or two programming classes required for her degree when
she gets to college.  I feel some programming burnout approaching, just
about the time we are ready to visit Grandpa Lauro and Grandma Conchita
in Mexico.  That is a good thing as I do not want to be distracted from
eating tamales while we are there.

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