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Monday, October 24, 2005
Today was one of those days when the only thing I wanted to do was...nothing. I came home from work, and I just sat. Vegetated. Watched paint dry. Observed fungi growth. Twas' fulfilling in the sense that I had nothing to fill my mind with, yet unfulfilling cause I felt like a fat man with a cheetohs stuck between his crack but his arms are too short to reach the cheetohs. I digress.
I was also daydreaming at work today. Well...sporatically throughout the day. I kept wishing it was the summer so I could play softball. I was picturing the crazy sickening plays I would make at 3rd. Dive, cartwheel and backflip to the ball and then gun the runner out at first with my left hand while eating a taco with my right. Or I'd imagine playing right-field, but I'd do a somersault off a light pole and catch the ball...then proceed to gun the runner at home from the homerun fence with my left hand while I sauteed a steak with my right.
Then there was the fair maiden.
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[Isaiah 30: 17-26]
A thousand will flee at the threat of one; at the threat of five you will all flee away, till you are left like a flagstaff on a mountaintop, like a banner on a hill." Yet the LORD longs to be gracious to you; he rises to show you compassion. For the LORD is a God of justice. Blessed are all who wait for him! O people of Zion, who live in Jerusalem, you will weep no more. How gracious he will be when you cry for help! As soon as he hears, he will answer you. Although the Lord gives you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, your teachers will be hidden no more; with your own eyes you will see them. Whether you turn to the right or to the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you, saying, "This is the way; walk in it." Then you will defile your idols overlaid with silver and your images covered with gold; you will throw them away like a menstrual cloth and say to them, "Away with you!" He will also send you rain for the seed you sow in the ground, and the food that comes from the land will be rich and plentiful. In that day your cattle will graze in broad meadows. The oxen and donkeys that work the soil will eat fodder and mash, spread out with fork and shovel. In the day of great slaughter, when the towers fall, streams of water will flow on every high mountain and every lofty hill. The moon will shine like the sun, and the sunlight will be seven times brighter, like the light of seven full days, when the LORD binds up the bruises of his people and heals the wounds he inflicted. See, the Name of the LORD comes from afar, with burning anger and dense clouds of smoke; his lips are full of wrath, and his tongue is a consuming fire. His breath is like a rushing torrent, rising up to the neck. He shakes the nations in the sieve of destruction; he places in the jaws of the peoples
a bit that leads them astray. And you will sing as on the night you celebrate a holy festival; your hearts will rejoice as when people go up with flutes to the mountain of the LORD, to the Rock of Israel. The LORD will cause men to hear his majestic voice and will make them see his arm coming down with raging anger and consuming fire, with cloudburst, thunderstorm and hail.
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I had a huge commentary for the passage. But then I forgot it.