Ash Wednesday

Withdrawals have been pretty bad. I was trying to open a program that I needed today which has a green icon. Without even thinking I double clicked a green icon. It wasn’t the one I needed but my instant messaging program. It was so automatic. I had to take Firefox and Safari out of my dock so I wouldn’t be tempted to click on them. Lord, help me, a sinner!

Well, at least there is iTunes! My sister gave me a $15 iTunes card and I’ve struggled to come up with that many songs that I want. I looked at a collection for “cardio” and since I need to flavor my running mix with some new tunes I took their advice and purchased a song with this line in it:

Look, if you had one shot, or one opportunity
To seize everything you ever wanted-One moment
Would you capture it or just let it slip?

That’s been eating at me all evening. It says a lot about my hesitancy to do what I need to do in this life for the kingdom. And they were rapped by none other than Eminem. Interesting

I’ve read a couple of chapters today with more hopefully tomorrow. Today was terribly long. Fortunately I have a retreat this weekend with about a four hour break in the middle of Saturday so I figure I can get a lot of Bible reading in.

So far today I’ve noticed a couple of things: God is orderly. Far more orderly than I am. Makes me wonder if I got left out in the whole “image of God”. I also reconnected with the idea that God’s image is expressed in male and female. Distinct and different but complementary and awesomely divine. Lastly, I’m not sure if I ever noticed this before, but God warned Adam of the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil before the woman came along. Adam was more aware of what not to eat than the woman. And he blames her. Century after century, generation after generation.

More soon.

Cross posted here.

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