Blessings; Day321

1Pe 3:9  Never return evil for evil or insult for insult (scolding, tongue-lashing, berating), but on the contrary blessing [praying for their welfare, happiness, and protection, and truly pitying and loving them]. For know that to this you have been called, that you may yourselves inherit a blessing [from God–that you may obtain a blessing as heirs, bringing welfare and happiness and protection].

Blessings – help believed to come from God or another deity; approval or good wishes; something to be glad or relieved about; to be favored by God

I love favors especially the ones that happen unexpectedly. I cannot count how many times I received a special favor from God.  You too, you received a lot of blessings, count it and you will be amazed how blessed you are.  Some of you here are not really experiencing the best of everything but I want to encourage you to do good things (keep doing it) and later great things.  The blessings will flow later.  For those that is just starting life and/or still at the very beginning phase, do good things every day, say good things, encourage people to do the same, spread peace and love, tell the good news, share your joy. Don’t do it because of the blessings. Do it as an act of obedience and you will see incredible things happen  in your life.

Let me just enumerate the big ones here: (not in order).
my beautiful and loving wife
my obedient daughter
my smart son
my wife’s job at St. David’s (13 years)
my job at Samsung (11 years)
my health
my finances
my time to swim, bike, run, read, write journal, study the Bible, encourage people, mentor friends, help a friend fix something
my ability to swim,bike and run even after the MI
my extended family in Merida and Mandaue
surviving my 1st bike accident (Pardo, near San Jose U)
surviving my 2nd accident (Mactan Bridge, almost died)
surviving a 15-feet fall (@GMC Lapu-Lapu, no broken bones)
surviving the Ormoc flood
surviving a car accident at I-35 at 70mph (no car damage)
surviving a heart attack (this is real favor, the best so far)
surviving a car accident at Palmer Ln (front bumper damage only)
my truck took a spin (raining) when i was turning left towards AW Grimes road, no car was beside me
lately, yellow light incident that me and Brent witnessed
unseen protection for myself and my family

MIT (Most Important Task)
1. Cycling/2.4Mile swim (depending on a partner)
2. Log Parser Testing
3. Backup Sharepoint./Hyper-V

0000, Sleep
0100, Sleep
0200, Sleep
0300, Sleep
0400, Sleep
0500, Sleep
0600, Sleep
0700, Breakfast; journal;
0800, Drop off the kids
0900, Cycling/2.4Mile Swim
1000, Cycling/2.4Mile Swim
1100,
1200,
1300, Nap
1400, Nap
1500, Pickup the kids
1600, Log Parser testing
1700, Log Parser testing
1800, Log Parser testing
1900, Log Parser testing
2000, Backup Hyper-V/Sharepoint
2100,
2200,
2300,
2400, Sleep

LOOKING BACK – YESTERDAY
What went well?
1. 32-Mile bike ride was great.  I changed my strategy on food. I brought 2 clif bars and started eating @mile 10 (half only), after the next 10 miles I ate the remaining half. It works.  I was climbing the last 7 miles of the ride with no difficulty at all.
2. Expanded my friendship to a high school friend (AC)
3. Me and Brent are doing Aikido basic technique training.  He seems to be so interested.  I started when I was 18, he is only 13.
4. Britta started her walking/running program (finally). I am her only cheerleader, Day0001 was yesterday.  She had done this before and was successful and lost 20 lbs,  She is currently at 165lbs. (-30)
5. Successfully setup remote desktop to a client in Austin.  I am now able to work on his Windows 2003 Media Server remotely and setup media streaming.  Imagine working around the world without being actually there at the server.  We are currently testing a future business that we can run remotely.  We build the server here in Round Rock and later send it to the client around the world.
6. Log Parser testing was successful, learned new query on IIS log files.  Loving it to be able to do “one click” to verify a web server activity.  Still more work to do.  The Sharepoint logs are not user friendly
7. Scheduled a cycling training with a partner for today, hopefully it will happen. Long distance cycling with a partner is great (shared suffering = less pain)

What didn’t go so well?
1. My daughter drove with an expired driver’s license and I missed it.
2. My daughter asking to go somewhere on a school day and I said YES, I thought it was for the weekend permission. (i was tricked or just not listening too well to the client)
What would you do differently next time?
1.
Conclusion:
1.