Daily 5 - Year 2, Day 17

Today's Daily 5:

1. doing some yoga today
2. sending off a transcript request that I'd been procrastinating on.  Another one of those "if I don't do it, then I can't be rejected, and I don't have to fail" things.  It feels good to have conquered another thing like that.
3. home-made chocolate chip cookies
4. laughing at a truly perfect line from Grey's Anatomy again tonight.  "Reality.  It's so much more interesting than happily ever after."  You kind of have to be privy to some inside jokes and conversations a friend and I have been having to truly appreciate this one, but let me assure you that it made me (and then her) laugh out loud.
5. doing a bunch of reading.

Tuesday

Today I am:

• sitting in the basement at my computer
• praying for a friend (and her family) who are losing a family member
• puttering
• looking forward to eating the pot of soup that I cooked last night for supper tonight
• wondering how it is that fall somehow just sets in overnight and there is suddenly a chill in the air again
• doing paperwork
• making beds and cleaning my mom and dad's basement in preparation for an influx of visitors from my mom's family over the next week or two
• going to make time to sit and read
• going to exercise
• taking care of some computer stuff
• going to make a cup of tea
• thinking about what projects for cleaning/purging that I'm going to work on in the next several days/weeks
• going to eat three meals.  three healthy meals.
• going to read through some recipe magazines and make notes on things I'd like to cook in the coming days/weeks/months
• praying for a number of marriages that are struggling
• praying for others who have lost loved ones
• thinking about what the future holds
• going to pause and consider what sort of jobs to start applying for in the coming days

Sex?

Okay, so it's a risky topic.  Especially for a Christian.  Maybe even more so for a single, unmarried, Christian female.

But I thought that Jonathan Acuff handled it masterfully here, and hit on some important topics.

Especially topic #1 - Sometimes we teach guilt and not abstinence.  I think it's absolutely true that the message that is communicated in the church to single people is that sex is evil.  I've been talking about this a lot lately, and I was really pleased to see this discussed on a prominent blog like "Stuff Christians Like".