a short, long week

i am not allowed to complain this week.

i worked a half day at the computer today, with occasional entertainment breaks. tomorrow, staff meeting in which i am only allowed to be a part of it as Pastor Matt is taking me out since the new youth pastor is coming to meet with the staff. needless to say the day will go by pretty fast since i won't be in the office that much. i will not be going in on wednesday, since the entirety of the youth service will be run by the new youth pastor and then i am off to DE.

so it is short in the amount of work hours completed, but long in the mental hours of anguish i will put myself through.

i know the pain of David as he wrote in Psalm 39. i'm sure my pain and anguish is not as great as what David went through, but i can relate to the words he spoke.

more importantly is not what he wrote down as he told God, "Look away from me, that I may rejoice again before I depart and am no more," but is what follows it:

"I waited patiently for the LORD; He turned to me and heard my cry. He lifted me out of the slimy pit, out of the mud and mire;
He set my feet on a rock and gave me a firm place to stand . . . You are my help and my Deliverer; O my God, do not delay."

well done David. i agree, amen.

we all must keep hold of the promises of הוה, YHWH, God of All, whether in good times or in bad, He still presides over all.

i leave with a promise mentioned in Isaiah 42. He writes:

"I [the LORD] will lead the blind by ways they have not known,
along unfamiliar paths I will guide them;
I will turn the darkness into light before them
and make the rough places smooth.
These are the things I will do;
I will not forsake them."


may i be blind Lord.