An addendum to the previous post.
Try out the common definition of joy as non-emotional action on your wife:
“Honey, I rejoice in you by taking out the trash and mowing the lawn, despite what you are actually like! My joy in our marriage exists independent of any qualities inherent in you; I give my joy freely as a gift to one who is not worthy of it! And my joy is not an emotion, so you can count on its constancy! Honey…? Honey!? Where are you going!!”
I won’t be graduating this May. That’s the short of it. The long of it is that I will probably graduate in August and that I may even be a “doctor” before May—but not in enough time to walk in the ceremony. I do not know when my defense will be, though the committee...
These are my official due dates for the dissertation. All are Fridays: Defense Draft—March 11 (five copies, spiral bound) by 5 p.m. Dissertation Defense—March 25, two weeks later. Records Office Draft—April 1. Registrar's Draft—April 15. I will need God’s grace to get...
I ran across this in my Theological Journal Library in Logos a few weeks ago, and I literally laughed with delight. Maybe you'd have to be living in the country I live in right now (Dissertationastan) to find this as perfectly glorious as I did, but perhaps people in...
I have reached the end of the dissertation, but I'm 3,395 words over my absolute top word limit and I have some editing to do anyway. I hope to accomplish that today. I praise the Lord for in-laws who let me work in their basement for two weeks (they got time with...
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