Just My Back?

Twelve years ago ...

Hosea 14:1-9                                                        August 26

Martha’s headache; me on a job search               10208.26

Asshur shall not save us:

we will not ride upon horses:

Neither will we say any more

     to the work of our hands,

     Ye are our gods:

For in thee the fatherless

     find mercy.

I will heal their backsliding,

I will love them freely:

For mine anger is turned

     away from him. 3-4

I really like this passage; it doesn’t take choice out of my hands, and it reaffirms Who actually does the changing in my life. I don’t want to seem weak any more; I want to model Jesus on earth as He is in heaven, and He’s definitely not weak! Today, I must make a difference. Amen.

[Side notes and prayer requests for this day include (my) Mom’s home safe from ER and flooding in China, drought in ND, FL, and all over.]

While the family’s out for a few minutes ...

I need to come off Wordscapes, one of many games I’ve downloaded onto the smartphone I got — or in my wife Martha’s joking words, that they (she and my sister Mary, whose cell phone plan we are on) allowed me to get — after the flip phone I’d had for years at last died. After church this morning this is something our daughter Sarah (by the way, she started 7th grade last week and our son started Jeffrey started 6th) and I connected on, and quite honestly, we haven’t connected on much. Our twelve and eleven-year-olds both going on twenty-five, go figure.

I have missed and not missed updating this blog you’re reading at the same time. Oh, I still write a journal — you could say I’m writing my primary journal (A) and at least since our wedding anniversary on July 12 I’ve done a page a day in “An Almanac of Ruby” (B). Rubies are the commemorative stones for a fifteenth anniversary. And I still read, and in some cases reread, the books I like to and my body has at last gotten adjusted to a new sleep schedule. Where at Fast Cash I worked 11 am to 7 pm, at Trinity Health’s Materials Management Warehouse I work 7 am to 4 pm weekdays. 

I’m moving A LOT more there. 

But it’s no lie I could use the endurance and energy, David