Keeping on Grinding

Well here goes another weeks worth of unscripted stuff that will get blurted out on to the Internet.

This was a really hard week. Everyday we had over an hour and a half to drive to the block which leaves less time to work and the land got harder everyday. Really did a good job of grinding me right out emotionally. Still not sure how to explain this properly because when I try to explain it or talk about it is really seems so minor. I guess the volume on life gets turned up with I'm alone trying to motivate myself to work harder in harder conditions. This day off is really nice though, timely even, not sure I could have taken another day like yesterday.

I plan to spend the rest of the day working on a poem called "Prayer of the Exile." I'm playing on it being long and good which is a sharp shift from most of the poems I write. Hopefully I will have that up for you all next week.

Also I'm disappointed no one took up my Isaiah 58 challenge. Seriously people comments and discussion will keep my blogging.

My book on the Jewishness of Jesus, talked about how Jews in Jesus' day would continually thank God for EVERYTHING. like start the day with thanking God that their souls returned to their bodies, which was quickly followed by a prayer of thankfulness that God restored sight to the blind. All their prayers started with something like "Blessed are you, O LORD our God, King of the Universe." So I've been working on adapting this posture of thankfulness in my own life thank God for little things, like seeing a snowy mountain the distance, having a warm sleeping bag, even having a job even when I'm not thrilled with it. But being a 'theological imperialist' I've adapted the first like of these two line prayers to "Praise Jesus, Author, Redeemer and King...."