Fail to Smile

Writer’s block and too busy this week. It was a strain just to get Wednesday out. You probably noticed…

So here is an ancient poem. I am not sure what I was thinking at the end. Guess I thought it was cool?

Fail To Smile

2/16/00

She has straight teeth that fail to smile,
For life is too short,
Running straight and in file.
She has eyes that fail to blink,
For what she might miss.
Her ship comes in only to sink,
And she cries little more than once a week,
At all the things she’s done.
Going back for more each night,
She cries herself to sleep.
To wake she will fight,
Her eyes hidden away from light,
Struggling for them to keep
Shut.

No words could utter as mad as her eyes,
No thoughts her pain could realize.
She lives out at sea,
Blue as the sea,
Calm as the breakers against the skies.

LoveherdearsweeteyescompleteherlifeIpray.
Ifonlyshewascontentandnotjustsatisfied.
ButwhoamItosay?
Isithearingherlipsfortheyhavesighed.
HowamItopray?

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Daily Thoughts #62

Stir crazy kids lead to crazy me. The irony of yelling at the kids to stop yelling is not lost on me. So I stopped. It wasn’t working anyway. They eventually figured it out.

What’s the point of creating? It’s all going to end up on a burning heap one day anyway. I might have to explore this line of thought more…

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Daily Thoughts #61

Put students first, except the ones with your opinions…

I’m so glad we live in a tolerant nation. So tolerant they screwed my friend out of an important opportunity because the powers that be found something “derogatory” on his social media. Maybe it’s just me, but simple opposition to someone’s life choices or habits hardly qualifies as “derogatory.”

Glad I did my research and discovered that drinking my Kentucky Mules from unlined copper will NOT give me copper poisoning. Unless it has been sitting for a day or two, and I drink a liter, if either of those are true I have other problems.

It was a slow day today. Which is good. I needed one!

If anyone is in the Cloudcroft, NM area I have several more days of loneliness (yes, even with the five kids loneliness does occur), maybe you want to hit up the brewery? It would be fun to meet a reader. Any of the three out there….

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Persistence

“Jesus said, “In a certain city there was a judge who neither feared God nor respected man. And there was a widow in that city who kept coming to him and saying, ‘Give me justice against my adversary.’ For a while he refused, but afterward he said to himself, Though I neither fear God nor respect man, yet because this widow keeps bothering me, I will give her justice, so that she will not beat me down by her continual coming.’” And the Lord said, “Hear what the unrighteous judge says. And will not God give justice to his elect, who cry to him day and night? Will he delay long over them? I tell you, he will give justice to them speedily. Nevertheless, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on earth?” Luke 18:2-8

Persistence pays off.

Giving up is easier, waaaay easier. But when you give up you gain nothing. Persisting, though painful, usually pays off in dividends greater than the sacrifice you made.

Think about some of the things where persistence is vital. Diets, working out, blogging, painting, relationships, and on and on. You make sacrifices for these things and after a bit of time and sacrifice you end up with returns far greater than the sacrifice.

At least usually. Sometimes it doesn’t matter how much you put in, you don’t always get everything or even anything back. Persistence in this world sometimes means you are beating your head against a wall. Of course that’s no reason to quit.

But in prayer, we have a guarantee that our persistence will pay off. There is no such thing as “unanswered prayer”, Christ assures us that justice will always be done when we are persistent in prayer. Even if we don’t get exactly what we want, we will always get what is just.

It may be easy to give up on diets or exercise, because they frequently fail us, it should never be easy to give up on prayer.

Daily Thoughts #60

If it’s not one thing it’s another. I celebrate victory only to discover that it wasn’t victory at all. Off to order more car parts…

My mood is apparently tied to my wife’s. Even when she is four states away her hormones are affecting me. That must be it.

Had more fun with costumer service today. Or rather human resources. Gotta love when other people’s incompetence messes up your life. Come on people, answer your phone!

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Daily Thoughts #59

Another day. Another list of errands. Adulting sometimes involves entirely too many phone calls and email tag.

One day I would like my plans to actually go like I hoped. Today was not that day.

Headache… Blah… Hate to be negative today folks. But this is what you get sometimes.

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Music and Art Monday, August 27th, 2018: Recent Work

It’s been a slow week here. I’m kinda having a bit of writer’s block. I’ve also had painter’s block as well. The only way I have found to bust through that has been to insist on doing a little bit every day.

Here are some recent bust throughs:

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Daily Thoughts #58

Even though I am 1,500 miles away a shooting at the Landing hits close. I’m quite familiar with it and I know people who work there. In fact I’ll probably be there sometime in the next month or two picking up people or dropping off food. I know it’s statistics, but it’s still hard to accept the fact that mass shootings have taken place quite close to two places I have lived.

I love church people. Not only did I enjoy a free lunch, they refused to take the change and I was paid to eat. I’m going to miss this place.

Singleness is not for me…. Only 14 more days!

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Daily Thoughts #57

Not busy enough. Have to love it when you pay for shipping and your package is delayed a week and then delayed another several days by who knows what. So no brakes on the truck yet.

I hate inexplicable exhaustion. At least I could be tired for a reason!

Catfish is not as good as I remember it. I think my cooking might be a bit off.

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Daily Thoughts #56

I can’t remember the last time I pirated music. It used to be that one would pay $15 for a CD. Now I can pay $15 to stream and download unlimited songs on several devices. Not much incentive to pirate any more.

God is good. Life ain’t bad.

It’s going to be a busy weekend. I can feel it.

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