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God is Good!

Been a busy week.  Lots happened so here's the recap: I think I told the story of my washing machine.  If not, my roomie tells me he's gonna give me a washing machine.  I pray that nothing will happen to my washing machine until that happens.  30 minutes later washer dies.  I'm broke.  We're without a washing machine.  Miss June does mine by hand (explain to her they have these things called laundromats).  Ask God about replacing said washing machine and He tells me to wait.  Roomie tells me that the one he was going to give me wasn't given to him, so I get an idea that I ought to try and JB weld the pump impeller back on the shaft.  It works, but not as good so you can only do small loads.  I couldn't fix it until I found out the plan had changed, for some reason. Sunday before last, at church, roomie asks if I have a washer yet.  Can't lie.  Told him I was able to get the thing working, but again, not well and only f...

A question I could answer

Today's Bible study class was good.  We talked about Romans 14 and 15, where Paul talks about how mature believers should handle situations with those not as mature in their faith.  Paul also makes some comments about his future plans to visit Rome in the future.  Remember that Romans is one of the letters Paul wrote to the many churches. Afterward, as sometimes happens, I was asked a question that until Monday, I don't think I was fully equipped to answer. "What do you do when you want to quit?" First off, there's no going back for me, but lately, a lot of the things I used to want to do have been coming to mind.  And not for one minute am I going to pretend I like, let alone understand where God has me going.  I am on board, though. So, God being Good!, well, He prepared me with the answer from the story of the church at Ephesis found in Revelation 2, which I shared with the guy who asked me the question. At the end, Jesus says that if we endure, we ...

I got yelled at

I got yelled at today by a stranger.  Over the internet.  And the stranger had no idea I was one of the people God was having her yell at. I have to say straight up I don't see a way forward in where I think I'm supposed to be going.  So much so, I seriously started taking down the things in the house I'd left up in hope of a different outcome. It's been that kind of a day, but God, in His way, kind of let me know some things about me. One of them is this: I always want to re-write the story. To a certain extent, I suppose that's true.  I always want to have things be better than they are.  If I had my choice, maybe I wouldn't pick the path I'm on.  Because in a way, it's re-writing the ending of a story I was OK with the ending of in the first place. Here's what I mean though about re-writing the ending. I have Tami Jo's cat in my house.  She's a psycho cat and she needs a home where she would be the only pet in it.  She doesn...

So, these things really happened.

I'm just telling a story. But it really happened like this. I got fired again from Cindy.  That was Sunday night and the thought that went through my head was a quote from Albert Einstein that says something to the effect the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. I wonder today if that equally applies to yours truly, but yours truly decided to do something different this time. There are things I've accumulated along the way in regard to Cindy.  Heck, I have a houseful of accumulated things from my last 3 relationships.  I have (because of the Old Lady) stuff of Wendi's.  I have Tami Jo's cat.  Why?  Old Lady. And there are things I bought for Cindy here and there when I thought things would work out.  I decided to get rid of those things yesterday.  June was gonna take them someplace today.  Hey, I can take a hint. So, I went to work for a while.  And when I pulled into...

Curve ball

For Christmas in 2009, I received a coffee cup with a picture of Charlie Brown pitching and the words "Curve Ball" inscribed on the cup. It would be a forerunner to what my life would look like in six weeks; job gone for the worst job in aviation, wife gone for another, business gone.  The only thing I had left was the house.  I'd lost everything, but a few weeks later, I'd be found by Jesus.  I had to lose my life to find it. Interesting concept.  But the words "curve ball" kind of seemed to me to be a foreboding warning of things coming out of left field.  The cup cracked and I don't know if I still have it or not, but the warning kind of stuck with me and when I think of those words, it brings a little anxiety to life. I saw those words again on a license plate at the Smith's on Saturday afternoon.  Saturday evening, I ran into Wendi in my driveway.  I hate that just for this reason:  She'd picked June up for the first time in I don'...

Heavy Duty

I drive a 1997 Ford F250.  A heavy duty Ford F250; so says the placard on either side of the front fender.  Those words kind of gripped me this morning when I pulled into the driveway after Bible study. Sometimes the path I walk seems to be more than I can bear.  Today is one of those days.  Notice I didn't say was... it still is. But there's a reason for the season of life I'm in and it's making me stronger; physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually. A Ford F250 Heavy Duty is kind of an unusual pickup truck.  They were made at the end of the production run for that particular body style and were kind of engineered around a plethora of spare parts Ford found themselves with.  They put the trucks together with this and that from parts that normally went on other models and called them "heavy duty".  Mine has a camper package on it which means there's an extra leaf in the leaf springs on the rear and different shocks. It's made Ford toug...

I hate pop quizzes

I was invited to a party last night.  It's a birthday party for a good friend's wife.  It's also an 80's themed party. I want to go.  Not because I want to try to recoup some past high school glory; there isn't anything I left in high school I want back. Nothing. But still, someone thought enough of me to ask me to attend a celebration for a milestone in their lives and I want to go.  I really do.  And I asked the one person I wanted most to go with me to go, knowing full well what the answer would be. But it's always nice to ask.  She's also a child of the 80's; can rock the big hair (I actually gave her a can of Aqua Net in her Christmas stocking last Christmas); likes the classic rock, and we'd have a great time together.  The problem is that we're not together.  For all that we are, what we are mostly is this: Apart. And that hurts because I don't honestly think we're supposed to be. What started out as an invitation to ...

Whadda ya know?!

I haven't been posting much and here's why:  Computer issues. It's not that I don't have tons going on in my life; I do.  Lots of things changing at Lark Circle these days...and mostly me.  But we'll get to that.  Today's post is about computer issues and an answer to prayer. I bought a Macbook laptop in 2007. I'm wiring on it tonight, but for the last few months, I haven't been able to use my internet browser (Safari) to post blogs.  Something was awry.  I also couldn't use it to update a website I take care of. What I thought I needed was a new computer, so I started praying and asked the ministry guys to also pray that God would provide.  My prayer was a little different though; more along the lines of God, if you want me to continue to do this work, then will you provide a new computer, or at the very least, would you help me understand how I can make what I have work?  I tried several different ways of trying how to figure out how to ...