Peeperz Discovers the Light Switch

While we were putting Abby down for bed, Peeperz was standing on my shoulder. I leaned in over Abby's head while she was lying on the changing table, and Peeperz found the light switch. A picture is worth a thousand words. What does that make a video?

Resolved, 66 Days Later

Some success. Some failure. I wonder if in modeling my resolutions after Jonathan Edwards, I missed a subtle aspect of the nature of a resolution. I do not do something right, so I resolve to do it better. Is it more accurate to say that I am repenting? But then there is a wording problem. It sounds best to say that I have repented from, whereas I am resolved to. A statement on repentance usually focuses on what was repented of. A statement of resolution focuses on what will be done in stead. Such that, I will repent from doing things for my glory, and am resolved to do things for the glory of Christ.

I think, perhaps, that it is most helpful to state both the new behavior and the old--what I will quit doing and what I will start doing. It might look something like this:

1. Repented, from seeking my own glory.
Resolved, to do all things to the glory of God.

Here is my point. I am not just trying to do better. I am repenting from not living up to God's standards, from neglecting the good works prepared for me. This changes that tone of a resolution. When I fail at one, I am not simply making a lower grade on the test. No, I have failed. I have sinned against God.

A new "Resolution."

11. Repented, from being silent about the gospel of Christ.
Resolved, to share the gospel of Christ whenever possible.

"Faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ." Romans 10:17