Forgot to post about this earlier, but wife is in prep now for some surgery. She has a benign but large cyst in her lady parts that's been causing a lot of pain the last few months. They're taking care of it now, plus doing more lady part fix-ups while they're under the hood. Nothing risky, but a good opportunity to bring things before God. 

Thanks, folks!

Greetings, folks. We are participating in our weekly corporate 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.

A quick, summary note on some things that I've been thinking about lately.

Most humans don't have the mental structure or energy to form their own identity. Rather, we have frameworks for identity offered to us, and we "decide" (I don't think the choice is entirely willful) how we fit inside such an identity. Pre-mass communication, we had very few of these frameworks offered to us. Some had one option at all. Either way, we fit ourselves into a mold in this way, often more that one mold. One identity wins out over all the others, and at different times.

As members of God's covenant houshold, you have such an identity offered to you. The identity has aspects that everyone who plays an active part of the household has, but it also has parts of it that only you can fill. What are those parts? Chances are, only you can answer that question.

Ideally, in this fallen state of being, we could find ourselves in a decent earthly covenant household, that could form an earthly analogy to this spiritual identity-conforming pattern, but it's unlikely, unfortunately. Social structures in the west, esepcially, aren't friendly to that way of doing things, but it's foolish to rule anything out when God is involved.

We are participating in our weekly corporate 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.

Wednesday: a day like any other. Except for this. 

We are participating in our weekly corporate 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.

My short term memory is especially poor when it comes to routine activities like, taking medication. On Sunday evening, I took my BP medicine and shortly thereafter I took my BP medicine, having forgotten that I had just taken it already. I went outside to tinker on my motorcycle, I began to get light headed every time I went from a squat to standing but, it didn't dawn on me that I had double dosed my Prinivil. Anyway, I had went rooting around my junkyard looking for stuff to make a guard to cover my left boot, so as to make gear shifting possible with my bad foot.
  I had the hiccups and after they wouldn't stop, I decided to lean against the car and do the breath hold hiccup cure. I filled my lungs and started counting. The next thing I knew I was laying on the gravel with a busted head. I got up and tried to continue but felt nauseous and started puking so, I cleared my work area and went inside. There were other symptoms consistent with a concussion and I've had them before so, no Drs for me. Monday and Tuesday are my days off so, I have time to get over it. I will finish my bike piddling today if the good Lord wills it and the creek don't rise.
  I'm not sure what my request is, maybe
 
Me   "Lord, help me to quit being stupid" 
 
The LORD  "Sorry my child, they ain't no fixin' stupid"

We are participating in our weekly corporate 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 in the emergency room at CMH in Lenoir, NC. My wife has liver and kidney failure and will be going to Baptist Hospital in Winston Salem, NC soon. Y'all know what to do.

Happy Wednesday, everyone.

We are participating in our weekly corporate 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 corporate 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.