July 7th (Day 54)

Today's verse is Proverbs 17:17, "A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity." Today was a pretty good day. It was my day off so I did a lot of thinking and hung out with Tyler. I did seem to stumble across something that makes some sense to me. Ever since I first started showing interest in going into the ministry and started learning the ins and outs of it, I have been given the constant warning about burnout and its effects. From these beginnings I have constantly tried to take measures that would help me avoid that, however have been unsuccessful on numerous occasions. I began to wonder today, that what if the things that I am doing to avoid burnout are the very things that are causing it. If in fact that is the case, my life is an example of a living paradox, haha. Anyway, today was a movie marathon day. I watched "Behind Enemy Lines" and then when Tyler came over and we watched "Eagle Eye" and "Nacho Libre". During one of the movies I found a sale on some more books, two of which were published in '08 and '09 and deal directly with burnout and stuff. Fitting huh? So I went ahead and ordered those. I'm hoping that I'll be able to continue on my reading kick and when I get to these books, learn something from them. I feel a lot more revitalized and ready to take on the week. I also went by Target to get a new Phase 10 game. Tyler and I then ran around to a few more places too and then grabbed dinner and headed back home and played Phase 10. Next week I'm going with the rest of the guys to a tech conference in Louisville at Southeast. I wasn't looking forward to it for the past couple of weeks, but I think it was pretty much because of all the stress and stuff going through my head for past few weeks. I got chance to look at the schedule for the conference and there are actually some workshops that I'm wanted to check out. Here in a little bit I'm taking Dave and Tyler to see Transformers 2, in their first DLP movie. Well I guess that's all I have for you today. Until tomorrow!

Pat