The Past Week

Well, I'm a lot better today, which is a good thing. Service was terrific last night...an awesome presence of the Holy Ghost. My daughter prayed through and was talking in tongues for like forty minutes (TYJ), but my wife ended up going home sick. She must have caught what I had. Fortunately, she was better this morning.
Last Friday, I was so sick that my classes basically had a free day. I gave them some Easter vocabulary and let them do a seek and find puzzle, then I let them play Scrabble in Spanish for the rest of the hour. They're probably looking forward to the next time I get sick...hahaha.
Every week, I make commitments for the week with my accountability partner. I did a terrible job with my commitments this past week. Tonight's my night to talk to my accountability partner, and I've sort of been dreading it, because I figured he was going to hammer my butt. At any rate, when I got home from church last night, he had messaged me saying (very apologetically) that he'd had a lot of trouble with his own commitments for the week. So I guess we're in the same boat. At any rate, here's my week in review:
What was supposed to happen:

1. devotions six days (prayer and Bible study)
   
2. Sunday school lesson done early (not at last minute)
   
3. begin next week's Sunday school lesson on Sunday
   
4. be to work on time everyday
   
5. be to bed on time Sunday through Thursday
   
6. start keeping a journal in order to accurately report
   
7. do forty-five minutes of grading a day on five days
   
8. write an essay on the importance of commitments by Thur.
   

What happened:

1. I got started this blog spot...but didn't do it till Sunday (Sorry, Steven)
   
2. I did not get my Sunday school lesson ready ahead of time...but since I couldn't be to church Sunday anyway....ah, forget it...whether or not I got to church on Sunday, I didn't keep the commitment.
   
3. I missed getting to bed on time at least once
   
4. I was late for work on Friday...which wasn't really my fault in that my wife came home late (I have to be there early on Friday for faculty meeting)--but I really should have reminded her.
   
5. Don't EVEN ask about the grading (okay...he's going to ask)
   
6. I DID get my essay done and sent off...albeit late due to computer problems.
   
7. daily devotions...I missed one day, I know, and I don't remember missing again till Friday. So much for my commitment to keeping track of everything in a journal. (I promise I'll do better, Steve...)
   

TO MY DEFENSE: things really fell apart when I got sick on Friday...I'm not going to count Friday (I was sick in bed) and I at least have half an excuse for Saturday (I didn't feel too good then, either). But I was going to do extra devotions on Sunday to make up for a day I missed...and that didn't happen.

So as I was saying, I'm not going so good this week, and I'll probably get hammered tonight...but I guess that's my fault. Oh well, this is the last week before Spring break, so I guess there's something to look forward to (if I'm allowed to live that long, that is). :-)