Job 15:27

For they have enshroud their faces with fat,

   Layered their loins with blubber.

 

I changed my routine a little this morning. The book I am reading is trying to get me to latch on to the why of a habit and not when only. I did not read it fast enough to finish on vacation, and I vowed to read the whole thing before I tried to implement it, so I am lingering in my old habits.

‘Enshroud’ was not among my sources which had ‘covered’ seven times and ‘buried’ once. The buried is netter, but I went another way. Fat has a few adjectives, but even my favorite ‘their own’ was not enough to include.

‘Layered’ was ‘gathered’, ‘bulged’, ‘made’, and the like.

I think it is funny that these wicked people are supposed to have purposely gotten fat everywhere. Not one ever seems to have really wanted to become fat. They all want to eat until they are full and never exercise, which of course leads to them being fat. It does so for the wicked, as well as the righteous for that matter.

I read a summary of Instagram in my new book, and I realized it was true in a manner I never expected. I had a plan to ‘use’ Instagram but eventually became dissatisfied with the outcome well before I finished. I may or may not have acquired a card I might not otherwise have due to using it, but as with twitter, it seems to have fallen short of my ideal. So now I have basically quit facebook, twitter, and Instagram for outreach use and I am left with no social media outlet. Apparently, this is not a bad place to be. (Update: Someone actually reached out on Instagram and I ma using it for baseball card purposes again, for now.)

I recently had an epiphany about people who lead at churches. They are happy to help as long as it does not lead to more work for themselves. They want to lead. They do not want to be bogged down by the details. They want others to run with the idea and do the work. They do not want great ideas to fall in their lap with no one else to do them. I am not saying everyone is like this, but it does make me realize that they have a role, and it is not what I thought.

I know that God has placed this book in my hands using His own mysterious methods. I know that its timing is divine and that I need to make finishing it and using it a priority. But I also know that I am on a journey, and any given moment is not the only one. I also know that while the fat on my face and the blubber on my loins is not as much as it once ones does not mean I have gotten over my lack of exercise and overeating.

 

Written, 2/8/25, Posted 5/7/25, Job 367