Stories and other stuff

I have a bug.  Not bugs as in the wee beasties that almost destroyed my house and caused a major downsizing a few months ago.  I think this is either viral or it's an old man bacteria thingie.  I'm certain that a visit to the clinic this evening is in order.  It's 80 degrees in here and I'm sweating like a piggy. Be that as it may, it's forcing me to do something I haven't done much of lately:  It's forcing me to rest. Rest is good.  I need to rest my poor little mind.  So I'm in this season of reset.  I think it started a week or two ago.  Maybe it's why there were so many delays in getting my furniture.  I'm thinking it was all supposed to come together last week, but I still don't know why. I do know I'm experiencing something during this period and it's a transformation of the way I think and see the circumstance of my life.  It's one circumstance and I don't have the power to fix or change it.  I can't defeat ...

I got a new laptop.  It's a Chromebook.  It was dirt cheap.  That's why I have it. I'm going to be doing a lot of writing these days.  Sometimes God puts a call on us to serve in ways we'd normally like to not serve.  I decided that fighting that call was a bad idea, cashed a check that was involved with not accepting the new things He is asking me to do, and now I'm just going with it. I get to is the thing.  It's not a have to thing, it's a get to thing, but one of the things I had to get over before I got to the "get to" part of this was myself. Some of the worst things that happen to me are self-imposed or direct consequences of bad decisions I've made.  In God's Justice and wisdom, He's not letting me escape those consequences.  Sometimes I try to fight them.  Sometimes I try to go my own way.  None of that ever works.  It's been pretty bad lately, and I've been flirting with the dangers of falling into an old trap: ...