Job 15:5

Your sinfulness dictates your speech,

   Makes you adopt crafty language.

I had a goal at one point that my baseball card collecting stay within a physical bound. The problem with that is that I have to actually get rid of stuff for the new stuff to fit. When I am ‘busy’, I do not take time to get rid of older worthless cards, but I rarely don’t have time to look for stuff I don’t have. My latest response was to spill over into new space and buy some boxes to add to my capacity within my original boundaries.  As with the books I displaced, (that went under a bed) I need to make time to get ‘out with the old’.

‘Sinfulness’ was also ‘iniquity’, ‘sin’, ‘guilt’, and ‘crime’. I liked the non-specificness of sinfulness. ‘Dictates’ was also ‘teaches’, ‘prompts’, ‘schooled’, and ‘guides’. I liked the logic of dictates better. ‘Speech’ was ‘mouth’ all but the one time.

‘Adopt’ was ‘choose’ all but the one time. ‘Crafty’ was also ‘devious’ or ‘cunning’. ‘Language was also ‘speech’ (that I rejected that here to use in the first stitch) and ‘tongue’.

I can identify with the goal of choosing your words wisely to avoid unnecessary activity. In the work world, I admit my mistakes, but sometimes I do not want to highlight the path if the mistake was corrected before anyone knew. This past week I made a very simple one that we only caught because of an apparent singularity where none was evident. The correction was significant and met our overall expectation better than the incorrect results. I try to do the best I can, but my clients need to make sure they read my stuff since no one else does. On one project, I hired my own checker just to be sure.

Adhering to my old goal of keeping my cards within the boundary should give me lots of busy work over the next few weeks. It would be great to start the year will at least the visual illusion of organization. I also found I need to backcheck all my network backups as a file I needed was not where I thought it should be. I’ve spent not a few dollars and not a few hours trying to get this in place and it’s failed me the last two times I needed it. I probably should have been keeping up with technology more along the way.

My collecting/saving/hoarding tendencies are one of the many sets of problems that I have to address every single day. Many days I fail, many days I succeed, and many days I do a little of each. I spent a lot of time last year trying to develop a system in which I could thrive only to reject it for not wanting one. Now as I have jumped into making myself do it, I see where it will really help me with overcoming my own limitations. A new outcome this week is that I want more than ever to be like my friend Paul and get rid of things I might need later. Those will probably only be wants anyway and the thing I hoarded will never be the best solution anyway. If I can follow the plan, the need for crafty should go away. Right?

Written 11/23/24, Posted 12/14/24, Job 343