Tim's blog

 I was absent Wednesday, March 27th.

 Today we presented our Powerpoint about the theme of the definitions of success in "A Devoted Son". The presentation went very well. We had lots of participation (compared to other groups, I think) while presenting the slide with our discussion questions. Today I am feeling great. I woke up a bit late but I still beat Mr. Rease to school, which I haven't done in a while. I enjoyed the Lord in the morning and I've been quite productive.  Praise the wonderful Triune God-man Jesus Christ.

 I was absent today. Praise the wonderful Triune Lord.

 Today we continued working on our presentations about "A Devoted Son" that we started on Wednesday.  I did some more revising during the class and just now in my third period class touched up the powerpoint to make it ready for presenting.  O Lord Jesus how I need You. I'm glad that Mr. Rease's son Bryce liked the meeting last week. I knew he would, but I liked seeing his enjoyment of it on his face at the end of the meeting and how urgently he wants to come again this week. Lord, bless our time tonight with Yourself! Release all of my friends, brothers and sisters from their Friday night occupations to come to the meeting and get infused with God! O Lord, keep me calling on Your name, I love You Lord Jesus.

 Today we started on a presentation about "A Devoted Son." We got a lot of work done in the long class. I had to battle my OCD because the fonts were all over the place from the theme that I set, and many other formatting things were inconsistent in the presentation while/after we worked on it. I have a problem with taking over too much in group projects because my OCD so strongly wants everything to be my orderly way. I think that I've somewhat overcome this. I kept the weird non-theme-fitting font, but I had to at least make every slide's font the same. I hope we get a good grade on this assignment! O Lord Jesus, how I need You today. Lord, don't let me forget about Your sweet name and Your life-giving Spirit that I can breathe in simply by calling out to You.

 Today we read through a story and then answered some questions about it. It was a quite interesting story that gave me a deeper insight into Indian peoples' culture, upbringing, and expectations.  One thing that was tedious to me today was that there were kind of a lot of questions about the text and they took some digging into the reading to answer, but I'm glad some of them showed what lines in the story they were referring to so that it would be easy to jump there and then analyze. I am feeling great today. I've been very productive and I don't plan on slowing down this pace of productivity. On the walk up to school I was talking with some guys about the garden of Eden and how the Bible shows that God just wanted man to take Him in as man's life and enjoyment by eating Him. I wish I had an opportunity to lead them to really touch the Lord, but I was kind of yapping a lot and before we knew it we were in the building and I lost my chance to lead them to pray.  Lo...

 Today on Canvas we answered some questions about our culture and the generational expectations that we feel are laid on us by our family. I never know what to respond with when we have questions asked about our culture. I always just end up talking about how I/my family loves the Lord and that we try to be headed up in Him in all things. Today I am feeling great. I've been pretty productive and I'm excited to start making a lot of money by doing lawn work.  This morning in the shower while I was praying to the Lord, I felt burdened for someone who showed interest in coming to a meeting a while ago but had never texted my number which I gave to them. I asked that the Lord would give me an opportunity today to get their number (I don't have a class with them) so that I'd be able to text them, and that through this they would end up at a meeting and they could touch the Lord again. (they have an interesting salvation story but probably haven't touched the Lord much si...

 Today we did an assignment on Newsela. I got two out of four quiz questions correct in the article, and I'm concerned that my grade will go down a noticeable amount because of this. I hope Mr. Rease is lenient with weighing the quiz grade for this assignment... but praise the Triune God regardless. I've been having a great morning so far. We recently had some brothers from the church in Boston come for a blending trip (A trip to see and blend with the Body of Christ in localities around the U.S.) and I said goodbye to the one that was awake this morning, Josh. Lord, strengthen Josh today through Your Spirit into his inner man (Eph. 3:16). My dad let me skip school yesterday to hang out with those saints and we had a great time; I showed them my Paul song too.  I had a great time with the Lord this morning. In my daily devotional I read about focusing on only enjoying the Lord rather than worrying about our situations; the more that we worry about things to the Lord, the less ...

Today we took an assessment on Illuminate about the poems we've been going over recently. Usually I go over my answers and double-check them, but there were so many questions (40) that I didn't check them this time. I think I got at least an 80 on the assessment, I never really know with these kind of question-analysis tests if I'm on the right track or way off track. I hope I did good, because I'd like to keep my 100% in the class.  If I do good, praise the Lord! If I don't, praise the Lord! Jesus is the Lord, He's always worthy of our praise no matter what. O Lord Jesus how I need You today. Supply me Lord Jesus I am mad tired. Whenever I type up a prayer like that^, I always make sure to actually pray it to the Lord. If I was just typing it for the blog's sake, it probably wouldn't mean nearly as much to the Lord or to me. I wonder, sometimes, when my brothers text me back "amen" or text a prayer, if they do so as well. I hope so!  Lord Jesu...

 Today we went over another William Blake poem about chimney sweepers. This poem was a bit more interesting because it had an aspect of religion in it. I don't consider myself religious because I just enjoy a living person and come to Him in a new way every day, but It was interesting how the poem kind of shows that religion is something impossible to fulfill. One of the themes we landed on was that it's hard to practice what is preached, but really, because of our inherited sinful nature, it is impossible to practice what is preached in religion.  All religion emphasizes striving to have a certain human behavior and conduct in order to please God. According to the Bible, however, what God really wants to do is to reveal His Son in us (Gal. 1:16-17). He wants us to kiss the Son and take refuge in Him. (Ps. 2:12) He wants to live in us (Gal. 2:20) and make His home in our hearts (Eph. 3:17). These things all go against our religious concept of pleasing God in our own works and ...

On Monday, we went over another poem by William Blake. I didn't really feel like I learned much through this poem, I just tried to interpret it.  I truly don't understand or enjoy poetry (unless it's Psalms or other poetry in the Bible lol) so I haven't been enjoying this unit as much as other ones we've gone through. On Monday I was very tired but I still got a lot done. I finished writing my song about Paul and I love how it turned out. Thank You Lord for flowing out!

 Today we looked at two poems about a baby being born. One was about the beautiful aspects and the other was about the painful aspects, but they weren't bound to this principle; they both had elements of the other in it. This class was interesting. It took me a while to get even half of the tedious analysis questions done, and I just now realized that I deleted the tab and lost all of my progress... I was trippin for a second but then I remembered to prraise the Lord! I love overcoming frustration by abiding in the comfort of the Lord Jesus. I can get that assignment done later. Romans 8:37 "But in all these things we more than conquer through Him who loved us." (and loves us currently.) O Lord Jesus, I love You back.

 

 Today I came in a bit late and we were going over two poems, and then answered questions about them on canvas for the rest of class. I wish I came in earlier, because the first poem was called "The Lamb" and it was pretty Biblical; it was about the Lord Jesus but it was very hard to follow. I don't think God made me with a poetry-keen brain, which I am completely fine with. I had some great fellowship with Mr. Rease about the poems and in general about God's predestination and such.  This is the last assignment of the day that I need to get done and it's 3:09; school is about to end. I love doing my schoolwork here because I can go home and enjoy the Lord without Him reminding me to take care of my human responsibilities, because I already have! The Lord has really been getting me through this day; I got 7-ish hours of sleep and I can't wait to take a power nap when I get home. Thank You Lord Jesus, for Your so easily-accessible presence, a simple two words a...

 Today I got to class in the last two minutes, but we worked on a poem with annotations and then answering questions on the back. I enjoyed catching up to speed on the poem with Mr. Rease; I said it's like the tree of the knowledge of good and evil from the garden of Eden and he said "pretty much." I'm just now about to start working on the questions, so maybe I'll see more what he means by "pretty much." I am feeling great today. I have been enjoying the Lord a lot. Oh Lord Jesus keep filling me with Your life-giving Spirit. (1 Cor. 15:45; Eph. 3:19)

 Today we had a time to work on our Jamboards. I saw on canvas last night that the due date was 11:59 PM so I made sure to get it done then. It's nice to have a free class period to work on other things and to get my blog post done early. I am enjoying this day a lot already. My brother (in Christ) Hayden and I had "morning revival" together, which is basically the same thing as morning devotional. We didn't read through anything from the ministry or even a verse from the Bible, but the point of morning revival is to establish a 'Christ' beginning to your day by coming to the Lord Jesus in prayer and simply absorbing Him, which doesn't have to include the ministry or even the word. You can just take in Christ Himself! (of course, we need the word, and the ministry can unveil the word, but Christ is nonetheless the living Word who we can come to.) Hayden and I did morning revival together on the way up to school- praying the entire time we were walking from...