late entry for Sun, 4-19-09 (Chatting with Janie)

Mom spent most of the day at the Buddhist temple. Janie went with me and Ruth to get the essentials for Amy (snow cone and Arby's roast beef sandwich). I am hoping Amy doesn't get too bored sitting at home in bed, but it's the best thing for the twins who are 28wks and 1 day into the gestation. We are praying for at least 34 weeks but the more, the better. The drive with Janie was nice because I learned some Spanish, and we had a good chat about various other things. It is hard to believe she has been working with our family since 1985. It has been nice having her visit with Mom this weekend. Ruth was very polite as usual saying please and thank you for bites of shaved ice. Amy taught her to say "no thank you," and she seemed to catch on. Before I went to work, I said good-bye to Janie. I wonder when/if I will seen her again.
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Galatians 1:10 "Am I now trying to win the approval of men, or of God? Or am I trying to please men? If I were still trying to please men, I would not be a servant of Christ."
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This is something I always realize too late. My trying to win the approval of others often supercedes considering what Jesus wants. Trying to please others can become a major problem, and I feel it has more often than not lead to bad decisions in my life. No matter the life stage from childhood, adolescence, young adult, to now, I still worry too much about what people think. My prayer is that I do what Jesus wants from me and not what I think other people will think of me.
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Reading from my original "blog" seven years ago (http://www.geocities.com/andykahn/trophic_number_15.html), it is interesting to see a reference to one of the earlier Passion CDs. I believe the Revelation 5 passage I quoted that day is in relation to "We Fall Down" by Chris Tomlin. As I drove home from work tonight, I was listening to a commercial on KLTY for a festival on May 2nd that had Chris Tomlin and Kirk Cameron (interesting that the 4/21/02 entry reference LaHaye and Jenkins since Cameron played the lead role in the movie version of their Left Behind book... I liked his performance in Fireproof better btw). Tomlin continues to put out a large number of worship songs played by most churches I have been to since that time. Interesting to see the continuity of leaders in the Christian world.