For those who don't know what the sabbath is, basically God asks that we spend one day in the week focused on Him. To rest from our daily labors, to care for others, spend time with our family, and ponder on how we can do better in our life.
It's a day that has lots to be done, some take it as a day to be idle, a day to "not do anything" but even that is much more wonderful than it being yet another daily grind. When we use the day to focus on God and doing good, it's an incredible recharge, a huge boost of motivation that lasts all week to be better, to tackle bigger problems, and to be inspired with solutions.
I'm very grateful for God's commandments. They really help keep us safe and in turn help us be free.
Sunday, June 9, 2019
Thursday, May 23, 2019
They say...
So here goes another little practice article. Not about anything yet, but I'm sure something will come to me. I'm surprisingly un-destracted by my chronic pain this morning so my wife thought it would be a good time to write since I can think a little. I figure, why not.
I kinda think I should have a point though, shouldn't I? Talk about something, explain something, tell a story... but I've not really figured out much of the point to these posts for now. Call it a work in progress... you got to start somewhere, right? I mean... you've got to figure out where level zero is to work towards level one.
You see, I've heard lots of times that if I want to be a "successful" blogger I've got to have a point, and a topic, so people can find the blog and follow their topic of interest, but so far I don't really feel like I'll aim for that. I guess if anything the topic would be a story of coping with my health problems, raising awareness of such health problems, things like that. I do have a handful of topics I'd like to write a post about to explain in detail and share with whoever would read them, but they for sure won't be on a related topic...
I kinda think I should have a point though, shouldn't I? Talk about something, explain something, tell a story... but I've not really figured out much of the point to these posts for now. Call it a work in progress... you got to start somewhere, right? I mean... you've got to figure out where level zero is to work towards level one.
You see, I've heard lots of times that if I want to be a "successful" blogger I've got to have a point, and a topic, so people can find the blog and follow their topic of interest, but so far I don't really feel like I'll aim for that. I guess if anything the topic would be a story of coping with my health problems, raising awareness of such health problems, things like that. I do have a handful of topics I'd like to write a post about to explain in detail and share with whoever would read them, but they for sure won't be on a related topic...
Sunday, May 12, 2019
A blog-a-day?? Probably not.
Wow it's been ages since I've used this... especially since blogs have really fallen in popularity and I mostly ended up using it to post instructions on how to do tricky things that I couldn't find information on elsewhere.
So, now I've had this idea to try to post a blog a day. Not for the attention, not to try to resurrect this or make money, but as an exercise for myself.
In these last few years I've had a lot of health changes. I've basically gone from somebody that chose to work 70+ hours a week for the fun of it to barely pushing through 15 or so hours a week of minimal effort tasks. Some of the health problems are diagnosed. The doctors have vague ideas on other problems, and I'm basically left disabled with a family to care for.
The amazing thing is my extended family has let me keep my job with them, even though I can't do much at all. So now, I get to do a lot of re-thinking my life... all the time... every day.
One thing that has become specifically difficult is thinking through new, hard problems. Learning how to do something new, playing a new board game, reading a new book, etc. It's made it difficult to try to transition to a career that I could actually provide for myself.
So in my last visit with a councilor, she suggested I try something smaller, something that is reachable and after a few days of thinking on it, I thought maybe I should try to dust off my old writing talents and try to make them more valuable, at least try to keep them around.
If you're an actual person who's actually reading this... first I'll say I'm shocked, but second I'll also say I can't promise an actual post every day. I'll try to keep posting more often though. I'd thought of a weekly schedule, but then I'd just procrastinate to the end of the week and probably not get it done, so for now, I'll write whenever, hopefully I'll do much better than never though.
I'm sure most of these posts will have bad grammar, be very scattered, and will include oxford commas. I like my oxford commas...
So, now I've had this idea to try to post a blog a day. Not for the attention, not to try to resurrect this or make money, but as an exercise for myself.
In these last few years I've had a lot of health changes. I've basically gone from somebody that chose to work 70+ hours a week for the fun of it to barely pushing through 15 or so hours a week of minimal effort tasks. Some of the health problems are diagnosed. The doctors have vague ideas on other problems, and I'm basically left disabled with a family to care for.
The amazing thing is my extended family has let me keep my job with them, even though I can't do much at all. So now, I get to do a lot of re-thinking my life... all the time... every day.
One thing that has become specifically difficult is thinking through new, hard problems. Learning how to do something new, playing a new board game, reading a new book, etc. It's made it difficult to try to transition to a career that I could actually provide for myself.
So in my last visit with a councilor, she suggested I try something smaller, something that is reachable and after a few days of thinking on it, I thought maybe I should try to dust off my old writing talents and try to make them more valuable, at least try to keep them around.
If you're an actual person who's actually reading this... first I'll say I'm shocked, but second I'll also say I can't promise an actual post every day. I'll try to keep posting more often though. I'd thought of a weekly schedule, but then I'd just procrastinate to the end of the week and probably not get it done, so for now, I'll write whenever, hopefully I'll do much better than never though.
I'm sure most of these posts will have bad grammar, be very scattered, and will include oxford commas. I like my oxford commas...
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