I was looking back at some of my previous entries here and I found a rather [1] amusing one from February. In it I state that I am shocked at how our gas prices have “jumped from $1.97 to $2.05.” I laughed when I read this because when I filled up my car last week it was $2.79 a gallon! Missy told me that gas is supposed to be going up a nickel a day for awhile. So now I’m eyeing my gas gauge as it hovers just under a quarter of a tank and hoping to really prolong the pending doom of filling up, Haha!

It’s been a good week so far here. Our friend Brad flew up on Monday for a job interview, and we had a great time visiting with him. Work has been exceptionally slow and quiet and I am enjoying the minimal schedule in the office even with time to read and blog. I was feeling rather down earlier in the week, but Bobby and I had a good conversation about losing heart. He was saying that whenever we lose heart, we are loosing sight of who God is. That is a hard reality to face because I want to believe that I know God and have a clear view of who He is. But I can see now how diverted my attention gets when things go wrong. Bobby said that we really start to lose hope when we forget God’s promises. He showed me an essay he was working on and I really liked this portion of it:

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In Ecclesiastes, Solomon said that there was nothing new under the sun and that all was vanity. He goes on for two chapters describing how he hated life and how all of man’s days are sorrowful. Then he says this in Ecclesiastes 2:24-26