It's Wednesday!

We are participating in our weekly prayer time at 5pm EST. Check out the prayer request forum for some prayer topics, but feel free to lift up your own.

You may also fast. There's no obligation or guidelines to how you should do it, or if you should do it at all. Just fast as the Lord leads and speaks to your convictions.

We are participating in our weekly prayer time at 5pm EST. Check out the prayer request forum for some prayer topics, but feel free to lift up your own.

You may also fast. There's no obligation or guidelines to how you should do it, or if you should do it at all. Just fast as the Lord leads and speaks to your convictions.

Michelle is back in the hospital, this time with an infection in her feet. Started off as cracks in her feet. Diabetes is a mean critter, like a Honey Badger.

As I write this, two guys are in my bathroom chipping out a section of the concrete floor with a small jackhammer. Two weeks ago I reported that our bathtub drain was slowing down. After several false starts thinking the problem had been solved, they had to call a professional plumbing company. They found that the drain had collapsed.

Strange thing: Our building is divided by a breezeway. On each side are blocks of four apartments, two up and two down. All four bathtubs on our side are linked together before they hit the common sewer pipe. The two ground floor bathtubs have been backing up from the drainage of the two upstairs because the line was blocked. So for two weeks we have not been able to use our shower without having to bail it out. While the other drains are working, I've been toting it outside in a bucket and pouring it into the street gutter (it's just "gray water"). But I've been having to do it for everyone else's bathtub, too. The guy next door to me is physically unable to do that kind of work, and when I bail mine, it drains his, too.

I tried to convince the folks upstairs that I wasn't hostile, but I would wish they could take it easy on me bailing out their bath water. It has reduced the amount, but not completely stopped the backups I have to deal with. But now that the plumbers are destroying my bathroom to get to the pipe, everyone else has been told they must not run anything down their drains, lest it interfere with their work. Also, those guys had me move stuff in my computer office so they could cut out a section of the wall adjoining the bathroom, so I'm pretty much limited to my laptop until they are through.

I find this all somewhat entertaining, so far.

Another Wednesday is upon us!

We are participating in our weekly prayer time at 5pm EST. Check out the prayer request forum for some prayer topics, but feel free to lift up your own.

You may also fast. There's no obligation or guidelines to how you should do it, or if you should do it at all. Just fast as the Lord leads and speaks to your convictions.

Just some lyrics that have spoken to me the last week. They are a little on the "God good, me bad" side, but I can look past that.

Quote:"Coward" by Haste the Day


I am looking into darkness
To hide my face
Don't show me who You are
Because I am a coward

I wanted You in the wind storm
I wanted You when the fire burned
I wanted You to ride in on a white horse
The storm can rage
The fire blazes on
And all this time
You were there in the whisper

I've sung a coward song
When I found it hard to bend my knees
But I've heard Your quiet call
I heard You whispering to me

All this time I've been running
From what You've spoken over me
But my legs are weary
And my will is tired
So it's where You'll find me
Find me on my knees

(Praised be Your name in all the Earth)
So I'll sing my coward song
(Praised be Your name)
In the place I heard You whisper
(Reign over)
But I'm not strong enough
(Reign over)
No I'm not good enough
(Praised be Your name)
But You still call my name
So I will never look away

We are participating in our weekly prayer time at 5pm EST. Check out the prayer request forum for some prayer topics, but feel free to lift up your own.

You may also fast. There's no obligation or guidelines to how you should do it, or if you should do it at all. Just fast as the Lord leads and speaks to your convictions.

Our fellowship has been quiet here on the forum and in other forms of communication. There's nothing wrong with that; it's not necessarily a bad sign. Oddly, I'm not feeling lonely, either. What I'm feeling is that this is the calm before a big storm.

Another year on the (Gregorian) calendar has passed, and I wanted to thank each of you--the three of you, it seems--for making this forum what it is today. Let's have another great year!

Happy New Year, folks!

We are participating in our weekly prayer time at 5pm EST. Check out the prayer request forum for some prayer topics, but feel free to lift up your own.

You may also fast. There's no obligation or guidelines to how you should do it, or if you should do it at all. Just fast as the Lord leads and speaks to your convictions.