Gah. How I hate sore throats. And I hate how they start too.

Your throat feels normal
→ you eat a sandwich for dinner
→ it feels like maybe a bread crumb got lodged in your throat
→ minor nuisance but not too big a deal
→ prayer meeting
→ irritant in throat spreads out
→ sore throat.

Bugs the heck out of me, not just because it’s a sore throat, but you think that maybe you wouldn’t have gotten it if you didn’t eat that sandwich.

Lame. It better not derail my long walk on the SF shoreline tomorrow night.

Thought consoles us for all, and heals all. If at times it does you ill, ask it for the remedy for that ill and it will give it to you.

— CHAMFORT, The Cynic’s Breviary

A person is limited only by the thoughts that he chooses.

— JAMES ALLEN, As a Man Thinketh

“Beside You, I have no one,
In heaven or on the earth.”

— “Take me Lord,” New Zealand Blue Songbook

“There is little willingness within me
To place all I am before Thy feet
So I lay my hands on Thy dear head, Lord
As the burnt off’ring, perfect, complete.

Lord, You are the only One who offered
Yourself without reluctance unto God
Full obedience to the Father given
Absolute, You sacrificed Your all.

As this One, You’re dwelling in my spirit
Moving, spreading outward day by day
There’s a whisper of Amen within me
In response to all that You would say.”

“But to Him who is able to do superabundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power which operates in us, to Him be the glory in the church and in Christ Jesus unto all the generations forever and ever. Amen.” — Ephesians 3:20-21

That makes so much sense.

In other news, dinner consisted of a slice of leftover quesadilla (the cheese in which I somehow managed to microwave extra crispy – not the good crispy, the hard to bite into crispy), a handful of brussel sprouts, and a cup of Greek yogurt.

Watched the presidential debates tonight. It was kind of hilarious at times, and I kept on imagining which parts SNL would incorporate into their sketch, b/c these debates are always pure comedic gold. I felt really bad for the moderator, since the candidates kept interrupting him to get in another word even though he was trying to keep the debate progressing to the other sections. In spite of seeming like such a mild mannered old man, near the end of the program, it was clear that he was visibly frustrated from being talked over again and again.