Tuesday, May 18, 2004

I have recently done many things since I last wrote. I am writing now, primarily, because my friend James wrote to me and asked me to look at his site; I did; I enjoyed.

I write one poem that I like every so often. They are more rare than they should be, because...well too many reasons.

My life consists mostly of being with my wife and figuring out what our friendship is. This, strangely enough, can be a lonely thing, when one is used to having many different friends that one can talk to about different parts of life. It is a shock when there is now only one person to which you talk about all aspects. It will not always be so, but it is now.

And so I find myself in a strange position; one of not knowing how to invest in new relationships, feeling strangely uninterested and unable to pursue knowledge of other individuals. I am lost amidst my own self, and I cannot make my way out to learn about others. I am not sure what Jesus is doing through all this.

I read something incredible the other day.

"O Lord, God of our fathers, are you not the God who is in heaven? You rule over all the kingdoms of the nations. Power and might are in your hand, and no one can withstand you. O our God, did you not drive out the inhabitants of this land before your people Israel and give it forever to the descendants of Abraham you friend? They have lived in it and have built in it a sacutary for your Name, saying, 'If calamity comes upon us, whether the sword of judgement, or plague or famine, we will stand in your presence before this temple that bears your Name and will cry out to you in our distress, and you will hear us and save us.'
But now here are men from Ammon, Moab and Mount Seir, whose territory you would not allow Israel to invade when they came from Egypt; so they turned away from them and did not destroy them. See how they are repaying us by coming to drive us out of the possession you gave us as an inheritance. O our God, will you not judge them? For we have no power to face this vast army that is attacking us. We do not know what to do, but our eyes are upon you."