Job 10:4

Have you eyes of flesh?

   Do you perceive as does a mere mortal?

 

I have run across a consistency of message about how people often make more of themselves than maybe they should. For me the best visual is a one-man traffic jam. People so concerned with themselves that they either ignore the many people stuck behind them or the many miles of open road around the little jammed up cluster.

The differences in the first stitch from my sources was minimal.

The differences in the second stitch from my sources was minimal.

However, I did throw in perceive on my own as the sources mainly limited their options to seeing which seemed to miss the biggest difference. I also combined the mere mortal from the slight variations there.

I have been a little slow to get back into my full routine as I ordered a book for my vacation and just figured I would not finish the other three and left it here. I ended up having to borrow a book to read at the end of vacation and have been squeezing the reading of this final book into this week. And by squeezing, I mean putting other stuff off, which is why I cannot read books during normal periods. (I do need to order some more before my next vacation.)

I want a routine in order to get the things I feel are important done that might never be urgent. I want a routine so that I do not forget something as I work through the day trying to put out the urgent fires. I want a routine so that my life honors God. The world has billions of opportunities for me to do something, and I want to make sure I am choosing to do the things God wants me, specifically, to do.

I read a review of Instagram that they are losing to Tik Tok because only tens of millions of hours were wasted on watching stuff there instead of the hundreds of millions on Tik Tok. Either way, there are too many people with their nose stuck to their phone instead of listening to their friends. The biggest criticism was that people did not want the algorithm to show them popular stuff, but stuff from their friends. I always thought Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and all that social media was so you could keep up with your friends. Now I know businesses are only there to make money off you, and keeping up with your friends does not make them much money.

I pray that as the youth of today mature, they find the reality of life with people more appealing than the fake stuff they can see on their phone. We had a great time on our vacation, and it is good to share that with our friends, but it is also good to share our struggles and our hopes. But those messy details we should want to share in person or on the phone and not on social media.

 

(Written 12/1, Posted ?, Job 212)