Yes!!!

An answered prayer. Today my parents came over with a 20 foot enclosed trailer, and worked all day hauling out trash and helping clean our garage. I didn't get Greek exam #4 done, but boy was a lot done today. I really love my parents. You have no idea how wonderful they are. They have no idea how wonderful they are. The only sad part is even after all the cleaning, there still isn't any room in our garage. But, as my wife puts it, it's an "organized mess." I always found the concept of those two words being used together humorous, but that's for another blog.

I am exhausted, and hopefully by God's grace I can knock out Greek exam #4 tomorrow morning before church.

In other news, the knock-down paint job on our ceiling was done, so they should be coming in tomorrow to finish sanding, and then we can paint the basement, and work on the trim. It will be nice when that gets cleaned up and finished. My brother in law, Scott, who has also been a tremendous blessing and answer to prayer, has been tirelessly working on finishing a lot of the detail work down there, and so far hasn't asked for any money that we don't have. God has just been delivering things to us on a silver platter (it seems) sometimes. I am so very thankful for how he seems to be making this transition so smooth for us, but at the same time teaching us to trust Him.

Why I Love Perfect Participles...

ok, ok... I hope you get as excited about this as I am... but the Greek language is a wonderful thing. Now I'm not saying everyone needs to know Greek to understand the Bible, but I sure hope whatever preacher you are listening to is diligent in his study of it, or he may miss things like the perfect participle.

I discussed this at length in my other blog to keep this one more for updates and such, and keep the Bible exposition here to a minimum, but I would encourage you to read that post. God has been good, and I am so thankful for Him. I am finishing up Chapter 30 in Greek, and getting ready to take quiz 7. If things go well, I'll have my 4th Greek exam completed before dinner.

It's all Greek to me...

So I plan on finishing 4 Greek quizzes and 2 online exams in the next 48 hours to hopefully be caught up in Greek and focus on other important things before the move. Today I have been hunkered down at my kitchen table memorizing vocab and going over paradigms. Thankfully, Bill Mounce does an excellent job explaining things. The good news about cramming for Greek is a lot of the lessons build off of each other like building blocks. The bad news is, well, a lot of the lessons build off of each other. I have been able to cram all the pieces together in my mind, and thankfully I have a method for memorizing vocab words that works very well for me. The only scary thing is at some point, all of this information I've stored in my brain without proper time to saturate will fizzle away, unless the Lord Himself helps me, and He has... in miraculous ways (it's a good story, ask me some time)

So that's where I'm at so far, bulldozing through a few chapters of Greek as quickly as possible to get things wrapped up. As one person put it, it's time to eat this elephant one bite at a time.