Moving my blog

Faithful readers may recall that I recently talked about moving my blog to Wordpress, another blogging service. At the time I wasn't able to migrate all of my posts, but recently that option became available. So this is the last post I will make at this URL.

Fear not; every single post, comment, and label have been copied to the new address. I'll continue with your regularly scheduled insanity there. The blog will just have a new look and several extra tools. Blogger got me started, but I'm too much of a tech geek to stay here when I can go over to Wordpress and fool around with blog options that put me in geek heaven. I mean, I went over to my new blog to import all the posts from this blog, and Wordpress had titled their import button "The Magic Button." What's not to like? It's all so...shiny!!

I'll leave the posts up on this blog for a while, but eventually I'll probably delete them all. These aren't the droids you're looking for. Move along, move along...

...um, wait, I think I forgot something. Right, the actual URL. I'm going to miss "themightyduck.blogspot.com." It was fun and fit my personality. But my new URL has even more meaning for me as I've grown a bit more serious about blogging: "http://standingonthewall.wordpress.com/". So change your bookmarks and get on over there. See you at the wall.

Happy Celibacy Day!

I have a date tonight with a nice Jewish boy. "So tell me about him," you might say. "What is your beloved more than another beloved?" (Song 5:9).

Well, for starters, He has eyes like fire and hair like a raven. He's never seemed attractive to the world, but to me His beauty is matchless. This Man loved me and washed me from my sins in His own blood. He did this when I hated Him and did not know Him—plucked me out of the mud, purified me and dressed me in the finest clothes, made me a king and a priest. "Yes, he is altogether lovely. This is my beloved, and this is my friend" (Song 5:16).

It would be easy to spend the day feeling left out of all the Valentine's Day ridiculousness. But why waste the time? I would prefer to meditate on unsurpassed love today. So I'll be spending the evening of Valentine's Day in the prayer room thinking about this:

For when we were still without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly. For scarcely for a righteous man will one die; yet perhaps for a good man someone would even dare to die. But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. (Romans 5:6–8)

[Jesus speaking to the Church] O my love, you are as beautiful as Tirzah, lovely as Jerusalem, awesome as an army with banners! Turn your eyes away from me, for they have overcome me. (Song 6:4–5)

P.S. Major, major props to my family for the care package. What an awesome surprise. I just want to declare to the world right now that I have the BEST. FAMILY. EVER.

EDIT NOTE: I just received a breathtakingly beautiful vase of flowers from my dad. As usual around IHOP, there were some delivery problems. The front desk person didn't know who I was or where the FMG office is...she started asking the people in the lobby if they knew my name. Thankfully, one of my coworkers walked through the lobby at that exact moment, said, "I know her!!", and took the flowers straight to me. They're absolutely gorgeous; I will have to post a picture later. After I stop crying. *watery-eyed grin* Again: BEST. FAMILY. EVER.

Forecast

The forecast for Monday and Tuesday is an increased stuffy nose and coughing with decreased temperatures. Wednesday should clear up a little, allowing oxygen intake once again and a complete return to the workplace and prayer room. Yes, I am working from home again. Figured my officemates wouldn't appreciate my constant nose-blowing and general germiness. Is germiness a word? I think I just made it one.

I did manage to get to the prayer room on Sunday and have some Jesus time for a few hours before my nose clogged up (oh, sweet oxygen, how I miss thee). I study the New Testament on Sundays. During my internship, my core group went through the Sermon on the Mount every Sunday. I guess I always got stuck on the Beatitudes because they are awesome. I don't think I've ever gone verse-by-verse through the whole thing. I've decided to go through the Sermon on the Mount again, this time with the goal of getting all the way through.

I really need to understand Matthew 5, 6, and 7. They are so foundational to the faith. Every time I complain, "I don't know how to do this" ("this" meaning life, intercession, fasting, or just the next few hours in the prayer room), I conveniently overlook the fact that we've got a clear roadmap of Christianity laid out in three accessible chapters. So I'm going to be reading the Sermon with the purpose of practical application. I've had plenty of study hours that basically consist of me scribbling in my journal, "I <3 Jesus!! I'm not exactly sure what poverty of spirit is, but I want it! W00tage!" Now I want to read these verses and say, "Okay, L-rd, show me how to be poor in spirit in the workplace and in serving in the prophecy rooms. How can I minister to others out of this understanding? And how can I better pray to be filled with the riches of my inheritance in You?" I am considering beginning a series of posts on what I'm learning in the Sermon. I'd study for an hour and a half in the PR, and then spend the last half hour typing up what I've learned. Having to articulate my thoughts to a wider audience might help get the Word inside me. So look for that in the future.