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the new router arrived!!! my dsl is back up!!!! posting from home again!!!!!

Okay, being and doing… on the journey we need to make sure we are going the right way… regularly…

the spiritual disciplines help with this…

Think of making a cup of tea with a tea bag… you pour the boiling water OVER the bag and then let the bag sit in the cup…

I need to be the boiling water sitting in the cup… allowing the tea bag to change my taste, appearance and scent…

meditation is one of the ways to do this…

click on mediation to read some notes on this misunderstood subject…

meditation

earlier there were introductory thoughts on the disciplines

Intro – General

note… the posts to which the links take you are out of true time sequence so as not to interrupt current posts

my wireless router is sending out signal and my laptop receives the signal well… I get an EXCELLENT reading…

but there is nothing in the signal…

how often do we get excellent signals from the culture? loud and clear! that are really about NOTHING?

I haven’t had internet at home since saturday last 😦

I’ve spent about five hours on the phone with my internet provider, all nice, patient, folks who had different levels of understanding and approaches to solving my problem…

The latest solution is a new modem, the heart of my dsl system, is needed…

it seems the company is sending the signal clearly… and as far as they are concerned, I sould be surfing… getting and using the information to make life easier and better… but… no such luck…

the latest theory is that I have a bad modem… so a new modem is in the mail…

its like humans… if the heart isn’t right the message can’t get through…

God, please give me a good heart to hear so I can be used by you!

[the next question is: doing or being???]

today’s the first day of my fifty-first year travelin this sod…

yesterday mornin i wrote some thoughts (in this cool #A6 notebook that I bought at Heathrow on the way to Hungary) about being thankful at 50… here is the first thought on thankfulness…

“for a relationship with a loving, forgiving, heavenly Father…”

today I was chatting with my friend Mark… DSL is down at home so I was (and am) at Greenberrys and the laptop was (and is…) struggling, so I just restarted it… when I was back on, Mark asked if I was having trouble with my internet connection…

“I was,” I wrote, “and I finally just restarted the computer… the connection is so much better…”

“humans are like my laptop” I wrote…

“how so?” Mark pondered

“because like my laptop, they need to be periodically restarted to clear up the connection…”

hmmmm…

We need to restart… here’s how:

Adoration and worship of God,
Confession of our wrongs to him and others,
Thanksgiving for all we have…
Supplication for the needs I have… but more for the needs of others

connection with God is awesome!

IF we are willing to restart when necessary…

that’s whats cool about first days…

…every day can be a first day!

NEXT… being? doing?

Jet Lag has kept me from creating… posts

What do you do to overcome jet lag????