At my work, I am lucky enough to get all the “normal” holidays and all the indigenous holidays :). *that means I was home on Monday so I could take advantage of having a day off.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
My wife is coming back on Friday the 10th and I wanted to have a surprise for her. Just my opinion but I think most men don’t do enough for their wives. Sure – we work hard (hopefully) and sacrifice but what about when we get home? Some men don’t even know how to use the dishwasher or do laundry – for me that just isn’t good enough.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So yesterday I took my father-in-law (Jake) to Sky-Hy for breakfast – went home and put my skinny butt to work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I was able to accomplish:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But the reality is that I wouldn’t have anything if it wasn’t for Jesus making the real moves in my life – my efforts by themselves would be futile.. there is nothing Jason can do if he doesn’t have the empowerment of Christ in his life. The reason I have anything at all, is because of God and that has to be mentioned first here – I want to make it clear that I give God all the credit – yes, I work hard but that means less than nothing, God is the real mover! When he rolls up his sleeves – anything amazing and glorious is possible in our lives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I make it my business to do more than what is expected, way more.. why? I want to be the best person I can be at everything I do – now I don’t mean a perfectionist. I’ve been lackadaisical when I grew up and I learned to hate that part of myself. When I’ve seen it in others, I found that to be a very ugly trait, and knowing that its in me too – I decided to say “screw that” – I have zero desire to quantify myself as being [fair\/average\/status quo] – to quote Nada in one of my favorite movies<\/a>… “I came here to kick ass and chew bubble gum and I’m all out of gum<\/em>“. For me – living a great life means having my shit together and moving moves. I don’t care what other people think in regards to my potential – I’m too busy taking care of business and that also helps me stay out of trouble.<\/p>\n\n\n\n What also helps me stay out of trouble is reading the bible, although I am far from perfect – I promised myself that I would read the bible straight through from cover to cover – I listen a lot to biblical teachings but I’ve never read the whole bible book by book – so that is a goal for me – not just to read all of it but to understand and apply it. I just finished the book of Numbers and am starting Deuteronomy<\/a> next.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n Jason<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" At my work, I am lucky enough to get all the “normal” holidays and all the indigenous holidays :). *that means I was home on Monday so I could take advantage of having a day off. My wife is coming back on Friday the 10th and I wanted to have a surprise for her. Just […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1073,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[940,949,928,140,935,947,931,932,950,938,934,933,937,927,484,930,946,945,936,941,944,948,939,943,929,942],"class_list":["post-1071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-personal","tag-being-a-better-man","tag-christ-centered-life","tag-christian-husband","tag-christian-testimony","tag-cleaning-house","tag-dad-life","tag-doing-dishes","tag-doing-laundry","tag-empowerment-of-christ","tag-faith-in-action","tag-family-man","tag-fatherhood","tag-god-gets-the-glory","tag-godly-marriage","tag-hard-work","tag-helping-at-home","tag-house-chores","tag-intentional-living","tag-jesus-first","tag-kicking-ass-in-life","tag-loving-your-wife","tag-marriage-goals","tag-overcoming-laziness","tag-serving-your-family","tag-surprise-for-wife","tag-taking-care-of-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenort.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenort.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenort.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenort.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenort.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1071"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/blumenort.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1092,"href":"https:\/\/blumenort.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1071\/revisions\/1092"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenort.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenort.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenort.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenort.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}