Thursday, July 7, 2022
Departed after the July 1 Holiday weekend there’s garbage everywhere.
So much for taking out what you bring in. New fire pits, dead spots now in the soil, are everywhere.
The worst was an air mattress box hidden in the bushes … filled with used diapers and other garbage. As if hidden it would not be found or someone would not have to carry it out, since the owners decided to carefully tuck it behind a bush.
God hand me that thingamajig
to knock some sense
into these senseless
creatures of yours.
1 Chronicles 29:12
Riches and honour come from you, and you rule over all. In your hand are power and might; and it is in your hand to make great and to give strength to all.
Mark 10:16
And he took them up in his arms, laid his hands on them, and blessed them.
Words of Grace For Today
The truck I’m renting broke down. Fuel Rail Pressure Sensor is toast or maybe a loose wire or ????
So, hundreds of dollars spent to get a replacement part later, a 60km bike ride in the rain with knees, heart and soul that should not attempt that anymore, three days of mechanic work for which I am not knowledgeable nor really able to reach over the engine to under the windshield to get at the FRPS and the bolts that have to come out on the air manifold. There was no one to ‘hand me thatthingamafig’, so it was hours of finding stuff and hours of looking for pieces dropped into the engine (not into the cylinders – at least I know enough to cover that ‘inside’ well enough) just to eventually lose them completely and then with one last ditch look having found them in the grass. And a whole week trying to do things without the power of a vehicle to assist. All that and 1) the truck runs without an error code, though it may have just been a loose wire on the air intake, and 2) I am fixed-und-fertig (to mix a few languages and idioms). From biking I can barely walk, from damage now over a week old my right foot still does not like to bear weight, and from tip to toe I am drained of energy, reserve, and I’m way past Bingo. Not sure where I will land, if indeed I do land or crash or ?
Now if riches come from God, I guess God has spared me that challenge. Thankfully there is no shortage of honour having God’s blessings I may be just about done and way past my best by date, but life is filled with wonders and miracles.
Like God caring for Children when others ignore and despise them or disregard them or abandon them to abuse unimagined.
So we start a new day: waiting for the next miracle, perhaps that enemies hearts will be converted from hard and cruel to kind and merciful, respectful of truth. If not God has plenty of other miracles waiting for the days ahead.
With them God will demonstrate that God has, continues, and always will bless me. It may be so for you as well, if you are so fortunate to have God’s favour and grace adorning your life.
Of course if life is easy for you, or you have so many possessions and opportunities and choices, then it may be impossible for you to recognize all God is doing. You may think it’s just your own doing.
No such abundance of possessions, wealth, opportunities, and choices here, so anything that goes well is a wonder, a miracle, the hand of God demonstrating God’s presence with me, again
and again
and again
without end.