The Week in Review

It's Sunday....time to review the past week and evaluate how I did on my progress in achieving my 2012 goals.

Goal 1 -- Finances
You may remember that in the first week of 2012, I was not successful in curbing the spending of discretionary income and keeping within our weekly budget. This was NOT an issue this past week. I was under our weekly budget by $110! Our successful week is now posted on our study wall for the whole world to see. Well, actually, it's probably only going to be seen by a few people -- mostly my husband and me -- but I've proudly displayed it for us to celebrate our success!

Goal 2 -- Spiritual
Once again, studying the Word has been uplifting for me! Galatians 2 was thought-provoking, caused introspection, and was confusing! All of this reading, mediating, and studying has immersed me in more truth. That's a good thing! Bring on Galatians 3!

Next week, my husband is only officiating three times which means that he will be home much more and which means that there is the potential for interruptions/distractions during my personal devotions. (He was gone every night this past week.) We'll see how I do in disciplining myself to separate myself from him and find a quiet spot to read, study, and mediate.

Our church is memorizing Scripture together. Our passage for January is Philippians 3:12-14. I'm adding the Scripture memorization to my goals of 2012. I'll let you know in February if I learned this passage.

Goal 3 -- Personal
Four blogs were written this past week. Did you enjoy them? And, my college course began on Friday. (And, yes, God has a sense of humor -- I was greeted with several inches of snow on Friday morning -- and traffic patterns in Bellevue are different at 7:50 a.m. than they are at 8:20 a.m. So, I was a couple of minutes late to class. Rats!!!)

The professor said that to be successful in this class, you have to be curious. Hmm...I wouldn't list curiosity as one of my strengths! She also said that you need to be able to walk up to a total stranger and start a conversation. Yeah...that is also not one of my strengths. So, challenges for this semester -- get to class on time, be curious, and talk to strangers! Wish me luck!!! And, yes, I am once again, by far, the oldest student in the class. The age difference is always a little awkward.

I do like the course textbook -- it was written in a magazine-type design. Lots of short articles, pictures, etc. And, we're only doing 5 chapters -- a whole 114 pages! I don't expect to fall asleep reading this textbook -- not at all like my Chemistry textbook. I think I napped EVERY time I read that book. Each chapter was 20-30 pages long and was (sorry, Shane) very boring!!!

A successful week in all three of 2012 goal areas! Hoping to be successful again next week!

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