The short of it?

So today I spent a bit of time reading. I finished a couple more chapters in A.A. Hodge's commentary on the Westminster Confession, read another chapter in Christ of the Covenants, and finished up Pilgrim's Progress in the 19th Century. The last one was fairly good for the most part, though the author certainly had an agenda. The first hundred and fifty pages encompassed some discussion about Thoughtful and how he started on his journey, some discussions between him and Feel-well and Love-Self and then they got to a town where they stayed and talked about revivals for 230 pages! The last 50 pages or so were devoted to their continuing, passing through the areas of Vanity Fair, where Demas was, Giant Despair (although now it was Giant Self-Confidence or something like that) and their going through the grounds of enchantment and finally reaching Beulah. So by far the bulk of the book, they stayed in one spot, talked with the same two people, and talked about one subject. It was good, just not really good in a literary way!

I sent out a few e-mails, finishing up some business that I'd been meaning to do. Then Jon came over with his futon in the back of Dan's truck, which he had borrowed, and I went over to his apartment and helped him move a small dresser over here as well. So now when my family comes to visit, they can use the futon :)

I listened to some music, played a little bit of the Zelda game, and barely started on day 2 of the Western Pilgrim's Progress. I've had two comments now, one from my mother. People must be busy! As I said before though, I really would like feedback, I've been kind of holding off on the subsequent parts because if I do have to re-do things, I don't want to have to re-do more than one and waste the time.

Some plans for this skit include (as suggested by JD and my mother)
* Western themed music, at least for the start-up, tentatively for mood music thoughout the play.
* Western costumes, bandannas and hats and boots and jeans would suffice generally.
* having kids from the audience "help out" each day. I plan for day 2 having one kind be "Mr Lazy" laying under the tree. All he or she would have to do is lie their with their eyes closed, snoring (and a big grin on his or her face no doubt). For day 2 I would also like to have a couple of kids acting like roaring lions that Christian has to cross through. That may take a little more planning (don't want them actually jumping on and eating poor Christian!).
* That is, if we /can/ get a person to play Christian!
* The daily lesson (which I'm also doing, to my knowledge) would be themed around the story, with questions asked like "why was Mr Lazy called Mr Lazy?" "Why did Christian want to get his burden off his back? Who could help him do that? Why did he have a burden?" etc., pulling off of names and themes I'm focusing on.
* Mr Worldly Wiseman (taking a literary license here) will appear, dapper as always, on a daily basis, always with a little more affected shine than before. There may be a final showdown between him and Sheriff Shepherd over the gospel and Christ.

So this evening I was puttering around the house, I'd washed dishes, etc. and just had to get out. Although it's not normally my custom to take a walk to spend time with myself. If I do go out by myself, it's usually to find a quiet spot to pray. I walked around in the park for a little while, singing Psalm 143 and 2 and then walked back, grabbed my frisbee and iPod and listened to the RP International conference (all the Psalm singing tracks since I listened to the sermons already) and practiced my long throws with the frisbee, for when we play Ultimate. Oddly, being by one's self during the school year is very different than being by one's self during the summer. In the former period, I guess I have more to think about, I certainly have plenty to do now as well, so I'm not sure what the difference is. But I did feel myself wishing that someone would show up, or send an e-mail or something! It's been rather quiet and isolated today...

But tomorrow is Sabbath and I'm very much looking forward to it and worshiping in the congregation once more. So good night all!