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The starlings are playing their flocking games outside my apartment today. I stood on my porch and watched them feed on the grass island in the middle of our parking lot until the beautiful moment came. Something startled them and, vvvvvvooooo! They all took off, banked left, and flew right toward me and over my head. There must have been over six hunderd of them.

Since we are beings that operate in the contexts of space and time, we never undergo transformation all-at-once. This wouldn't really matter to us except that we are fallen beings, and for those of us who are longing in faith to sumbit to the process of un-falling (sanctification)--of conforming to the image of Christ--this process-aspect of transformation is almost unbearable. Because we're "in the middle of things" in regard to our salvation, we always bear with us the questions, doubts, fears and unsatisfied longings that make up the old self--dying though it is.

Certanly we should count ourselves in Christ, fully saved by Him and fully sure of our future hope because of His "already" resurrection. Yet before our own ressurection, this counting should be articulated in the very disciplines that make up the processes of sanctification. I know that I become too quickly overwhelmed by the enormity and ambiguity of the space/time in-between my present hope and my future promise if I try to constantly focus on the "big picture" (the all-at-onceness-in-Chirst) of what's going on in my life. The only way I can bear the load of process is through the footsteps of the disciplines: memorization of Scripture, prayer, confession of sin, service, compassion, etc.

If I am getting overwhelmed in life, let me return to the stepped articulations of "counting" myself in Christ in my daily disciplines. That's the basic thing I want to remember today.

The Golive Team has made my life much more difficult than it needs to be. Why didn't they warn me? They should have titled it "GoCrazy" or "GoStupidInTheHead."

My basic point is this: If your going to make a software that writes HTML through a user interface, your user interface should be easier to learn than HTML itself. So far, I've found that everything I've learned about HTML makes sense whereas most things I've created through Golive don't work.

Ok, so I'm blowing things a little out of perportion.

Today, I've been trying to create a remote rollover through GoLive. I've created seperate images in Illustrator and now I'm trying to connect the dots in GoLive. The online manual says all you have to do is work with the rollover dialogue box. You have to put the name of the remote image in the Name/ID box, then select the image--as usual--for the rollover state. Seems easy enough. But in practice, it is impossible to get the program to recognize the Name/ID you enter as an existing image. And try connecting the two with the whip! It won't let you make the connection!! Very frustrating.


Note: I have since diagnosed my problem: I had to name my remote images (normal state) in the inspector's name/id field. I still don't understand why the GoLive team didn't include such information in the Help section--actually, I'm sure that writing a Help section must be one of the more boring tasks avalible to mankind. I won't blame them if they didn't make it perfect.