I worked on blogs and such yesterday and today gave my work in progress, the final book of The Florida Springs Trilogy, Clear Spring some attention. I don’t know why it takes years to get into good routines, but that’s one of the reasons I’m much in favor of routines, they help me streamline my life. It looks as if it will work to spend a two hour block one day doing marketing, answering emails, writing blogs, etc. and the next day concentrate on the novel. That would be a very loose plan for me. If a blog was insisting on being written right that minute, of course I would write it then.
How about you? Do you favor routine or are you a free spirit?
Category: Potato Couch
A visit with DiVoran is a joyful experince. I highly recommend it.
Letters
I have re-read the letters Bill wrote me while he was stationed aboard ship in the Navy in 1958. They are 
pretty much the same as the ones Dad sent Mother in 1945 during World War II. I suppose a service person’s life can be full of monotony even in wartime.
Receiving messages from home or from loved ones far away is by far the most wonderful, the most exciting, and the most fulfilling thing that can happen for most people in a day or a week. Nowadays it is easier and takes less time than it ever has. I love paper letters, but even more, I love modern technology that makes communicating so quick and easy. Besides being where you can hold hands, what’s your favorite style of communication these days?
Worries-A Poem
This poem is called “Worries” I read my Streams in the Desert Journal every day for the uplifting of my spirit it brings. It’s fun to find things I’d forgotten about. On Jun 3, of this year, I found a poem I wrote on May 25, 2011. At one time I was writing in it just a night when I couldn’t sleep so the dates are mixed. I don’t care. Do you?
Worry is such a sin that right away when I begin, I shut down all my mind and strength and go to such an awful length to deny my worries, oh, and not to ask that they will go, but to bury them where they’ll most do harm and cause my soul a high alarm. Lately though, I start to think, if I’ll admit, I will not sink. So now I say, I’m worried Lord, please throw my worries overboard. He comes, He does, as I have asked, and soon my worries all have passed.
Admit it daughter and come to me . I’ll deal with pain and set you free.
“Let us pass away over unto the other side.”
Mark 4:35
How do you deal with worry?
I love My New Message Bible
It’s before breakfast on a Tuesday morning. I’m going to have scrambled eggs and tea in a minute, so this will be quick, but I wanted to tell you something. I love The Message Bible. Bill has a large print copy, I have a large print copy, and I have it on Kindle and I have the Message Promise Book on Kindle and the Message Proverbs too. The desire of my heart was to have it on my IPod so I could listen to it when I take a walk, wait in waiting rooms, or drive my car. I’ve been waiting a long time for this item, to get it just right, so I could relax and soak in God’s word in mobile situations. I tried some other audio Bibles, but
had to return them because I didn’t care for the readers—they were too noisy, too busy. I like my Bible to just speak calmly and tell me what’s what. At last yesterday it all came together and I bought 76+ hours of Bible, called, The Daily Message from Navpress for a very reasonable amount of money.
The reader is a man, Kelly Ryan Dolan.I feel abundantly favored. Eugene Peterson, the translator of that version says that all through history people have been translating so that ordinary people could read and understand the Bible. Tyndale, one of the first translators said he wanted to make it so plain a plough-boy could read and understand it. (Of course. there are things we might not fully understand, but the Bible is for everybody, not just the literati. I listen to good novels and non-fiction in mobile situations too, so don’t think I’m going all pious on you. I’m like most people today, an input junkie. But it will be nice not to have to scramble for something uplifting to listen to. I’ve thought for a long time that my understanding of Psalm 37:4 is being expanded to: Trust the Lord and He will give you ideas of what he wants you to desire so he can fulfill those desires for you. Thank you, Lord.
Do you have a favorite translation? I would so enjoy “chatting” about our favorites.