vacation was a whirlwind. tried to spend as much time with family as possible (success!) and tried to see friends that i will not see for a long period of time. i didn’t see half the people i had hoped to while i was home but it was a lot of driving back and forth between santa cruz and san jose and semi-restful at best…

so ive more or less been graduated and off of any kind of regular schedule for the past 4 days. 3 of the days have been well spent, including a day of golf and watching bcs games with friends, doing some heavy sermon prep and exegesis, and tearing out one of the walls at alpha blueprint. the other day was video games and movies and i felt very unfulfilled at the end of the day.

i had an unemployed friend who talked about the importance of mini goals. while not having a job, it is important to make the most of the time and be paying bills, shopping for groceries, etc. i agree with this. having not been unemployed for about 5 years (and i still have a few more days at the blueprint shop) i have to say that i agree with this. we cannot spend our time off doing nothing. i think God invented goals so that we can feel good about them when we meet them or make progress in them. this is something i hope to do this month. the trick is to know that He still loves us when we don’t because i really believe God wants us to feel good about ourselves. thus, i will set goals daily, and i hope this will last well into the rest of my life…