A Moment of Clarity!

Well, there’s something to pray for! The discipline to spend a little time writing nightly is a whole new arena of commitment. The addition of a little nightly ancestry snooping has been delightfully enticing, even though I find dead ends and confusing information about the ancestors. We all have them so might as well find out who they are and when they lived, about their military records and wedding days and about an uncle who died at 2 years of age. It is almost addictive, digging in and searching with the information you have, allowing the data stored by Ancestry.com to fill in the blanks and add to the clarity!

Clarity is an amazing thing. We don’t often get to experience clarity, nor do we rejoice as we probably should when we discover a moment or two of it! Some things seem so clear, so crystal clear, that you can stand firmly upon them, like a skater on a frozen lake. Some efforts to express clear thoughts are like oil and vinegar, as though one were the giver of the clear information and one the receiver, but there is never a true blending. The observation: Delight in the sacrosanct clarity of your own thought and the blessing of shared revelation when it comes, however rarely. . . like on those days I tell Becky we are twins separated at birth!

This has been a full week! Tuesday night it was fun to celebrate Robby’s birthday a second time, though it was STILL or rather REALLY his first birthday! I will have to see about loading a picture or two on the BLOG -o-sphere – well, there appears to be no correct spelling for that word! Apparently BLOG is ok, but nothing about it being spherical.

Today I discovered someone is a Christian at my workplace. Always good to identify fellow believers! Connection! I am very happy about that! Not sure she rests like I do. She was in tears over something today and told me she had been over something else a few weeks ago. Sometimes I think I am almost too deep into the resting, totally trusting in the Lord. No hysteria for me – almost a numbness. Of course, I am much older and perhaps wiser than this young woman. God was good enough to reveal this to me years ago, and it was welcome news! I have grown in my ability to rest in His peace. Maybe she is someone I can mentor into that resting faith.

Speaking for faith, it is time to load this into the BLOG – o-sphere and turn my attention elsewhere!

Thank you, Lord, for Your peace; the Peace that passes understanding.

Please give Heather peace too!

I love you, Robby, I am so very thankful that God has brought you into our lives. You are a perfect gift to us all!

There is a plan!

The long-term plan for my life is to go to heaven! The short term plan is go to sleep for 7 or 8 hours, starting shortly! There are many interim plans, the list of which I can't begin to enumerate in this brief start to a public sharing of experience, wisdom, hopes and dreams, and daily life.

To say writing a blog will be difficult is both the truth and a lie. I have much life-experience to write about and a great deal to say! Agonizing thoughts of blowing a calorie righteous day of dieting with a couple of slices of Jersey Boyz sub must be dispelled as tomorrow is another day to count calories (while keeping them reasonably numbered)! The good news is I didn't eat a brownie. The observation: some people eat a brownie rather than a sandwich; some people eat a sandwich rather than a brownie.

God has made us all different in many ways, not the least of which is our substantially different tastes and appetites! Delightful consumption: nothing more sugary than the fruit; a touch of spicy mustard and very strong radish; the salt of pretzels! Oh, and the deliciousness of the sub, not a greasy, half rotten lunch meat sub, but about the best sub ever - very fresh EVERYTHING!

Well, it is time to call this day's blog, the starting blog, a done deal, bookmark it so I can find it easily tomorrow, and pray for a while, then sleep!

Apart from the immediate need for rest, there is an immediate need for prayer. It is easy enough to find distractions and I will not allow this blog to be one of them. At times I might share may prayerful thoughts here, at other times I might share them only with God, both in Jesus name.

Thank you for today, Lord, and for my family and for my job and for the Hope I have in You!

Please comfort those who are sad or lonely or afraid tonight and give them Your peace!

I love you, Lord!