{"id":610,"date":"2008-05-01T07:28:43","date_gmt":"2008-05-01T07:28:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/10.131.168.108\/wordpress\/?p=610"},"modified":"2008-05-01T07:28:43","modified_gmt":"2008-05-01T07:28:43","slug":"610","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/2008\/05\/01\/610\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It never ceases to amaze me how, having been a Christian for as long as I have, I am still inconsistent and easily distracted from the truth, the Word, the promises, the Spirit&#8230;from everything that really matters.&nbsp; I woke up in the middle of the night last night and immediately thought (I have no censors at that hour of the morning), &#8220;Well, no wonder you&#8217;ve been struggling so much&#8230;you&#8217;re hardly praying, you&#8217;re hit-or-miss with the Word, and you pretty much focus on yourself all the time these days.&nbsp; Yep&#8230;pretty much a recipe for trouble.&#8221;&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>Nice way to wake up in the pre-dawn.&nbsp; But still, my conscience was right.&nbsp; I can&#8217;t expect stellar growth and great mental\/emotional stability when I&#8217;m not consistently feeding myself on spiritual realities.&nbsp; I can&#8217;t even expect little steps forward when I&#8217;m not correctly focused.&nbsp; So, this morning, I went back to my Bible before Xanga time (it had been reversed for a while).&nbsp; And it is a beginning&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Other than such musings, I am leading an unexciting life these days.&nbsp; I did get that one last portfolio graded yesterday, so I have 22 left to go.&nbsp; That sounds like a lot to me.&nbsp; Especially since I want to get them done in two days (today and tomorrow), so I don&#8217;t have to go down next week at all.&nbsp; But I think I&#8217;ll just see how today goes before I stress about it too much.&nbsp; I may just have to bring some home with me tonight and grade in the evening, too.&nbsp; We shall see&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I talked to Karen on my way home last night.&nbsp; Then we had pizza for dinner (homemade).&nbsp;&nbsp; I would&#8217;ve rather gone out for dinner, but Eric really didn&#8217;t want to spend the money.&nbsp; So we looked at all the stuff we had and decided to make a pizza.&nbsp; We sat on the couch, ate pizza, and watched television.&nbsp; Then we went for a meander through the neighborhood (it turns out Eric wanted to see how his lawn compared to other people&#8217;s <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/s.xanga.com\/images\/whatevah.gif\">).&nbsp; Then we watched more television.&nbsp; Then we went to bed.&nbsp; See&#8230;not an exciting night, for sure!<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">EDIT (8:41): OH!&nbsp; Something exciting did happen recently.&nbsp; I forgot until just now (for some reason), but this month, we paid off my entire student loan from grad school.&nbsp; I now owe the government NO money!&nbsp; WOO HOO!!!<\/span><br style=\"font-weight: bold;\"><br \/>Anyway, today I MUST remember to take the garbage out before I head to CU.&nbsp; Not much of a plan, but there it is!&nbsp; Happy Thursday, all!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It never ceases to amaze me how, having been a Christian for as long as I have, I am still inconsistent and easily distracted from the truth, the Word, the promises, the Spirit&#8230;from everything that really matters.&nbsp; I woke up &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/2008\/05\/01\/610\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}