Plan "B"

Def: "Blank House".

Among the million other things, the house has also been on my mind. I'm looking forward to whatever happens there. If I get this house, I'm looking forward to the many (MANY!) projects I'll have in making it my own. If I don't get the house, I'm looking forward to what greater things I have in store.

Either way, if it's God's will, I'd really like a dog. And a fireplace. And

I was looking at my feet pictures at work last week, and I saw one of my fins on the side of a boat in Copperopolis, CA (95327). I've also been thinking that the weather here has been pretty icky (although it's been beautiful lately). It got me thinking about vacation. It got me thinking that I miss being face down in the Caribbean. I went online and booked a short cruise to Cozumel and Belize. I feel better already. :-)

Lesson to be learned: Every once in a while, it's healthy to look at your life and decide what you're going to worry about, and what you're not. What's important and what isn't. What you can fix, and what you can't. You'll be surprised at what you don't have to worry about, and what isn't important, and what you can't fix.

"God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; the courage to change the things I can; and the wisdom to know the difference."

     --Reinhold Niebuhr
       The Serenity Prayer

Labels: caribbean, travel, vacation

Something's been bugging me for years. I've been praying about it, and giving it all to God - daily. I've put it on the alter more times than I can count. I've asked God to handle it, and I've done everything in my ant-like powers to follow the Word of God in this matter. And yet, every morning, there it is. Like a cat that you've put out for the night that returns each morning to be fed. I've sought comfort in the Bible, and have found some in what it doesn't say. In the writings of Paul, he never mentions specific regret for the Christians he had killed. His writing never spirals into a guilty discourse of penance that he had to pay to the widows and orphans he helped create. He was a runner of the race, and runners don't spend a lot of time looking back at where they've been or who's chasing them. They concentrate on the race. That is not to say that we shouldn't make every attempt to right what we've wronged, and certainly not that "Do over" means that we can ignore this responsibility. But after we've made every attempt at remedy, we need to get onto the task at hand. Paul's was a life to be emulated. As for me, I've had my say and given my forgiveness and offered my apologies. It's time to tell the cat at my doorstep that he's no longer welcome. It's time to move.

Anything I do at work today will be a waste compared to this:



I wish I had this much free time. :-)