Ride On - Gird Your Sword

to the only wise God our Saviour, is glory and greatness, power and authority, both now and to all the ages! Amen. (YLT Jude 1:25)

I guest you can feel it; the rift in the atmosphere. People are uncomfortable to see the world crashing down around them. Why the natural distasters. I know this is nothing, compared to what is to come.

'For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places;
(YLT 24:7)

Kingdoms are not just set by country borders. Also know that giant multinational corporations rule the world. These kingdoms will be continue to be shaken. Hopefully, not all governments will be stupid and try to bail them out. Don't nurse the dying horse. Feed the healthy ones. The world's not going to end, just a few kingdoms.

This is Psalm 45. I actually read the Psalm again after a long while about a week ago, and then this song by Ryan Kondo of IHOP took on new life. It's so funny, I sat down yesterday to write SEO articles, and I could not for the life of me get anything written except blog posts and poetry. It is something. But, I am not the type to give in when I know that this whole life is a battle to stay faithful to the true God.

Life In a Day - Realizations

Okay so a couple of hours ago something terrible happened. Well, I am not quite sure if it is terrible or just an occurance. After interviewing two very impressive characters this week on Skype and recording the interviews with Vodburner I went to create the videos only to discover that I was out of hard drive space. Thank you Vodburner for not warning that you average file size is larger than life. Yes, two 1 hour interviews took up more than half of my hard drive, that was 60 GB! I know, no onw should have less than 500 GB these days, but...

What surprized me was that I was more concerned with getting these interviews to the persons that I interviewed and my blog posts set for this month than completing my school work. I not being effective in any areas right now. I have not finished any blog posts. I'm behind in my class work, and I have not began to prepare for my trip in two days from now. Yes, everything is a mess, and strangely, I am okay with it. I've accepted that the class was designed for us to fail in week three. Vodburner is designed to take over hard drives and crash computers, and that I might possibly not care about completing my Master's degree as much as I did 12 months ago. I thought I could keep it together for the two months that I have left in the program but maybe not.

But, I am very proud to have taken part in the life in a day submissions. I felt that it was more important to get this submission in by the deadline than it was to get my reading discussion post in, which was uncharacteristically difficult.

A small observation

I just noticed that my clothing tag was particularly itchy. I looked at it closely and noticed that that half of that little plastic thing that the stores use to affix the price to the shirt was still there...chaffing my back; it had been there for years.

Are there little ideas, things left undone, or habits that you have that are chaffing you? Tackle a few today. I feel much better that I have removed the offending itch-inducing piece of plastic.

I actually did a little bit of this last week. I was having trouble sleeping so I thought of all the things that I had not made a decision on. After I gave myself an answer to all these 'little' questions that had been chaffing at me, I went to sleep.

You might not even realize how much something is affecting you. Every time I have a headache, my first thought is if the little things that I've been ignoring have piled up and begun to physically affect me.

[On a separate note: pay attention, you can learn so much by being aware of what you are doing or of what's going on around you. It took me twenty-three years to learn that everything is connected and that every thing informs every thing.] A silly example would be I learned about African culture by looking at my hair.