Endings

As we monitor the final bits of 2009, it is as usual, a time for reflection and planning. This has been a difficult year, ending with many trials unresolved. I stopped posting to this blog midyear as many of the little anecdotes of Dogpatch seemed trivial and brought no joy as they erupted from my fumbling fingers on the keyboard. A laptop that inserts text into the space after a previously typed letter created a level of frustration just not worth the coping mechanism required. I found it much easier to mindlessly harvest crops and whack the mafioso on the social networking sites.

With the new year, I may decide to become responsible again. Always believing that I am responsible for my own destiny with a serious helping from above (Philippians4:13 I can do all things through Christ who strengtheneth me). That's the KJV, even though the NIV is much simpler, something about that "strengtheneth" verbage has always touched me. It is the only place I have ever seen that word and I seldom hear it used. My father once told me, and a cousin reminded me recently, that there are no contradictions in the King James Bible. I know that, yet reading that same scripture in simpler translations sometimes appeals to my lazy mind. Still I find myself referring to the tried and true for affirmation.

So let the new year begin, and with it I am committed to finding the daily joy so often missed as I fret about the trivia (or sometimes trauma) of life moving on.