2020 goals,  Faith,  Priorities

2020: Week 3

January 22, 2020 /

I feel like time passes quicker when you’re tracking it and that tracking it makes you more productive. I’ve accomplished much more in 21 days than I would have if I weren’t intentionally recapping them. Hopefully, you’re making good progress, too.

Here are some of the past week’s highlights.

  1. God knows the world in ways we never will, and that’s a good thing. I finished up Job this week. Those last few chapters are powerful, and they leave me in awe of God as Creator. He knows intimately every process, function, and cycle of each being or thing on Earth, and that’s amazing. That’s a God worthy of praise and adoration.
  2. I want to trust God deeper, even when He doesn’t provide all the details. Jumping back to Genesis 12, God called Abram to go to a land where God would show him. That’s all the direction he got. Some people love adventures and would enthusiastically take off to who-knows-where, but that’s not me. I want the roadmap, please. Give me the step-by-step directions so that I don’t get lost along the way. Abram didn’t get any specifics instructions; however, he trusted God and followed Him.
  3. God is compassionate. The story of Jacob and Leah leaves my heart heavy. I want Leah to be loved, and she wasn’t. In the ESV translation, which I used for last year’s reading, the word is “hated.” It says God saw Leah was hated and gave her children as a result. I think that was a special gift. She had children to love and to love her back, to play with, and to nurture. God turned the mess into something beautiful. Leah probably had to mourn the life she thought she would have, but we see God be compassionate toward her in her circumstances.
  4. I’m a little too Southern for a course from a United Kingdom university. This week was especially challenging because I learned the American music note names when I started with music: whole, half, quarter, eighth, etc. The note names change across the pond: breve, semibreve, minim, crotchet, quaver, etc. I prefer the sixty-fourth note to the hemidemisemiquaver. I passed the quiz, but it took a little more effort than usual.
  5. I’m thankful Mom introduced me to music as a young child. I grew up with music. I think learning the ins and outs of music would be much more difficult if I were starting now. This six-week course is packing in a lot of information, and to truly learn it, I’ll need to review it frequently. Memorizing for a quiz isn’t good enough.

That’s all for now! I hope you have a great fourth week of 2020!