Finally Some Volleyball
Today at work was review day. Generally, we haven't been completing many projects on time, and two of the projects have been dragging on for about 2 months now. Every time we think we can finish, there's a random server error or one of our applications stops working (without us touching any of the code). This takes hours to troubleshoot, and every time it's resolved without us changing anything. So, you might be able to guess how annoying and stressful our review days have been for the past month. There was a big error this morning when I got into the office, but we were able to fix it pretty quickly. I think we got really lucky. Anywho, we also committed to a lot more projects than we normally do. And all the shareholders pretended to be concerned that we might not finish. Normally we commit to like 3-4, and we fail 2 of them. This time we committed to 6. So like I said, they pretended to be concerned that we committed to too much, even though they wouldn't let us drop a couple of them if we asked. So anyways, review went great, we finished 5 out of 6 including both projects that had been causing us a lot of trouble.After work, I finally got to play volleyball. It was pretty great. With all the holiday closings, and my injuries, and the snow... well, I hadn't even touched a ball in more than a month. So I normally don't warm up at all (not a good idea I know) but it's usually fine. But this time, I tried to jump to spike the ball and my hand only went 3-4 inches over the net. I can normally get my whole elbow above the net, and on good days half my bicep. So, I was pretty worried that I would have workout for another couple months just to get my vertical back. After that game, I ran a couple hitting lines, and my vertical was back! But my timing was horrible, and so was my hitting form. I'll need to work on that again. At least, now I'll be able to get back to playing volleyball regularly again. Hopefully.Today's devotion was on Romans 8:9-17. The writer on ODB said that it was comforting for him to know that she is, and always will be, God's child, regardless of her situation. And that reading this passage reminds her of this fact. However, for a long time, I've been struggling to feel that. When I read this passage, it's hard for me stop focusing on the "ifs". Especially because of verse 13. I'm paraphrasing here, but it says: by the spirit, stop sinning. And, I'm doing a pretty poor job of that. And then I'm like, I'm sinning I can't possibly be saved. And then I'm like, but I'm saved through grace (Ephesians). But then I'm like but do I even see proof that I'm saved? Where are my works? (James). So... yea. Great chain of logic there James. (Totally didn't just look up those books.)Anyways... that's it today ._.