tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9520508.post8243304554206304243..comments2024-02-03T01:51:20.266-07:00Comments on A Song Not Scored For Breathing: Naivete et alHopehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02045801745534184703noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9520508.post-18784699432924753442014-10-16T21:10:13.887-06:002014-10-16T21:10:13.887-06:00Thinking about you. Thinking about you. spookyrachhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11652180845736295060noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9520508.post-28842738637037755562014-10-16T11:34:22.384-06:002014-10-16T11:34:22.384-06:00You make me smile here in more ways than one. As f...You make me smile here in more ways than one. As far as your comment toward Psalms, I once penned some negative thoughts into my Bible concerning What I felt John to be saying in one of his latter epistles. Some time later I returned, read it again and apologized to John..... Jimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13302132941940784968noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9520508.post-79701059067557584062014-10-14T10:57:40.798-06:002014-10-14T10:57:40.798-06:00This should be a blog posting, but I'll put it...This should be a blog posting, but I'll put it here. I erupt something like you do, in growly negativity more often than I want to, even getting cynical that there is such a thing as "refreshing sleep". I'm always surprised at the guilt feelings involved, but at my best, I realize they're a symptom, a flag, letting me know as if I didn't already, that I am on a really crappy part of the journey. They don't define me.<br /><br />What is really important (and who knows, good friend, helpful?) is that shit happens Now and when that now passes, as you suggest in rereading Psalm 139, things look different. Maybe better. They are True at the Time, whatever.<br /><br />I almost always forget that in the crappy times, and invariably wind up having to forgive myself something, when tying a knot in the rope end, and throwing the old "this too shall pass" at it, might get me through the crap better.<br /><br />I affirm that there are times to pissed at scripture. And there are times to accept what it says. I affirm that all that really changes is one's readiness to hear it, and dammit, there is no guilt involved in not being up for a passage at a particular time. There is just getting back up and putting one foot in front if the other. Again.<br /><br />You are a work in progress. And remember another Psalm: what a piece of work is humanity (shameless paraphrase).<br /><br />Grace, kiddo.Peterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16052081819882002321noreply@blogger.com