First Published: 2019 February 15
Today was the second and final day of the Conference Championship diving meet. I placed fourth. I threw my 203a for the first time, and it went pretty well. All in all, it was a fun season.
First Published: 2019 February 15
Today was the second and final day of the Conference Championship diving meet. I placed fourth. I threw my 203a for the first time, and it went pretty well. All in all, it was a fun season.
First Published: 2019 February 14
Today was my last practice before Conference. My coach decided it would be a really short practice. Hopefully I do well tomorrow.
First Published: 2019 February 14
Today I learned that if I give my toenail the choice of sticking to me or staying on a diving board, it will choose the diving board.
First Published: 2019 February 14
So far I’ve written a ballad every day except two, and each has had at least three stanzas. Yay!
First Published: 2019 February 11
Sometimes I realize that I am forgetful.1 Today, it was realizing that I had purchased some Celtic music while abroad that I still hadn’t converted to MP3. So yay! I now have four new hours of music to listen to. Today is a good day.
yes, I do often forget that↩
First Published: 2019 February 10
Isaiah 6:8: “Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, ‘Whom shall I send? Who will go for us?’ ‘Here I am,’ I said; ‘send me!’”
Today’s readings speak about the nature of God’s relationship with us. As Isaiah was, we are to be awed and fearing.1 As Simon was, we are to be unquestioning,2 and again, fearful.3
But this is not all that the relationship is. For just after Isaiah speaks about his unworthiness, he is made pure.4 And when Simon and his partners too followed God, they are exhorted, “Do not be afraid; from now on you will be catching men.”5 All in all, that’s nice to think about. We can trust wholly in the Lord our God, and he will make us pure and worthy.
Isaiah 6:5 “Then I said, ‘Woe is me, I am doomed! For I am a man of unclean lips, living among a people of unclean lips, and my eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts!’”↩︎
Luke 5:5 “Simon said in reply, ‘Master, we have worked hard all night and have caught nothing, but at your command I will lower the nets.’”↩︎
When Simon Peter saw this, he fell at the knees of Jesus and said, ‘Depart from me, Lord, for I am a sinful man.’↩︎
Isaiah 6:7 “Then one of the seraphim flew to me, holding an ember which he had taken with tongs from the altar. He touched my mouth with it. ‘See,’ he said, ‘now that this has touched your lips, your wickedness is removed, your sin purged.’”↩︎
Luke 5:10B↩︎
First Published: 2019 February 09
As many of you know, I dive. I also dive poorly very often. Most of the time this is me making a mistake in the air1 and hitting the water hard.
Once, it was hitting the board. Today, it was my foot slipping on an inward dive. As a result, my chest and leg are now scratched up. On the plus side, it did spark a moral dilemma among some friends.2
First Published: 2019 February 09
I realized I haven’t written recently about how much I love my family. They’re all amazing for so many uncountable reasons, and I’m so glad that they claim me as one of them.
First Published: 2019 February 09
Sometimes I procrastinate. Sometimes I do that too much. That’s a poor choice.