Vacation and All Sorts of News

Today is MLK Day, a holiday to observe a great man who believed for the equality of all people regardless of race, sex, or religion. He was truly a man of vision. Due to this official, State observance, I am off of work today and it couldn’t have come at a better time. I could sense my life once again bordering on busyness and that’s the last thing I wanted! Today allowed me to take a bit of time to myself, focus things, plan for the next few weeks, etc. It was great!

In other news, I’m now officially published. I have an ISBN and everything. I used a service called SafariU to build a textbook for a course I’m co-teaching over at NC State. The course focuses on Applied Web Development. Basically we’re teaching Computer Science majors how to program for a web environment and make cool things like WordPress, the blogging engine I use to power my site.

In some other news I have to say that the Lord has been gracious to me in really putting things in perspective. He has shown me the realization that I have to stop thinking and planning for 2, 5, or 10 years down the road. Instead, I need to focus on today and now. Focusing and meditating on the Lord and how the next step I take can be used to glorify Him.

Jason - January 16, 2006 - 7:36 pm

J,

May God continue to give you opportunities to slow down and honor Him in the present. Great to hear your thoughts…

Glad I found you blog…

Jason

Patti - January 18, 2006 - 5:19 pm

So good to hear that you finally made time for yourself ;) I am glad that you have also taken the time to focus on the work the Lord is doing and the blessings for todayinstead of tomorrow ;) it is nice to think about future things though…..I think that’s when it all catches up with us though…then He slaps us and puts us back on track..if ya know what I mean ;) He is so gracious :) :)

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