My Shabbat Seven - v2009.09.19

For For those of you who follow my wife's blog (http://alisondonoho.blogspot.com/), you know she has her "Favorite Fridays" postings. Well, I'm going to imitate her good idea and call mine 'My Shabbat Seven.' (For now, you can read more than you want to know about "shabbat" here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shabbat)

• Free, extended babysitting by grandmas! Thanks, Jan, for Monday! Thanks, Mom, for the last couple of days!
• My flexible job...so when my son gets sick and my wife has critical meetings, I can adjust my schedule temporarily without creating a lot of major issues for my employer.
• The first place St. Louis Cardinals and getting to go to games with the fam.
• The spiritual growth campaign we're doing with church, Outflow. Already seeing how people are responding to God's grace!
• That we paid off the student loan! We highly recommend Dave Ramsey's Financial Peace University to help motivate you to do with money what most of us know on some level we should do with money, but don't.
• Diet Mountain Dew Ultra Violet. Thank you Pepsi-cola for this diet drink that this pre-diabetic will actually drink.
• This weather is awesome! The only thing better would've been if I'd been able to work & play in it more.
  

Praise God from whom all blessings flow!