The Lord regretted that He had made mankind on the earth, and He was [deeply] grieved in His heart.
I dedicate today’s blog post to a newly acquainted person in my life. Let’s call him Stewart. He is my muse for this page. Do YOU know what I mean when I use that word? If you click on the underlined stuff, it will take you to “further information” LOL… in this case clicking on muse will take you to my journaling entry. Hold down the control key while pressing ‘F’ and then type in ‘muse’ it’ll take you to that paragraph containing the word muse. The fact that I’m explaining that to Stewart is a little bit of fun, that perhaps will make him laugh, I like doing that.
From my own experience, everything is going fine until people, other people, interrupt my perfect world.
Part of why I’m even writing here today is that I realize that God and I have something common. I deeply regret certain other people, and at times that includes all other people, I regret that they exist. That they persist in existing. God reacted spectacularly in Genesis 6 there. The Flood! And we see how that pans out in chapters 7 and 8.
While I’m at it here… in my daily bible exercise of writing out the word, I noticed one day that God points out how the Israelites were to treat their enemies. I found myself stopped in my tracks. Enemies?!? What? Who? Me? This is where nervous laughter would be inserted… and looking from side to side, wondering who ratted me out! I don’t even admit that to myself. Aren’t we suppose to love everybody?
But I submit to God’s word. I looked deeper. There’s lots there… we’re not under the law? Are we? That is a question by the way, not a statement.
In the beginning God… is how the Bible begins; the story of all of us begins.
The garden scene, for me, is God with his creation. All that he created, and the one’s he made in his image, people. Genesis chapter 2 goes into more detail than chapter 1.
Take for example my day so far. I am on vacation for the next 2 weeks, starting today. I have very limited plans. I like being home. I’m doing already, right this minute, what I love to do, and its two things, at least… lets count and see?
- Just me> I live with 2 other people, so they are either asleep, or in their rooms have their own quiet time
- Listening to music> Every context I’m in, I like to have theme music playing. Right now its without lyrics, and its familiar hymns, so if I concentrate on the song, I can hear the lyrics in my head.
- Coffee> I look forward to my morning cups of coffee. Being on vacation means I don’t have to limit my coffee to fore-noon, cuz Coffee keeps me awake at night, not good when I arise at 5:30 am to begin my work day.
- Write> Well, here I am writing.
Running Down Vimy 