Daily 5 - Day 43

My headache remains persistent, and my muscles are still protesting my very existence, but I am finding several things to list as part of today's daily 5:

1. Newly painted finger and toe nails. The toes are bright red this week. Last week I painted them emerald green, which I eventually got used to and loved, but for the first 24 hours, I couldn't decide if it was pretty, or if it just looked like I had a really awful fungus!
2. A quiet evening spent relaxing on the couch.
3. Time spent digging into scriptures that have been playing over and over in my head, in preparation for some plans on the weekend
4. A great frittata that my roommate made for dinner. That is how eggs should always be cooked - in such a way that you mostly can't taste (or more importantly, feel the texture of) the eggs. Plus, I got a night off from cooking!
5. Spending an hour or so sitting in a sunbeam on the "wrong" (the visitor) side of my desk at work this afternoon, perusing promotional catalogs in search of some gift ideas for our volunteers.
   

Pray the Devil Back to Hell

I found this article quite interesting. It talks about this movie, which I would like to see, I think.

A Mish-Mash Again...

Jesus, Living Water, help me trust the surprising and unexpected ways that I encounter you. My thirst brings me to desert places where you are the stranger at the well.

— from "What Jesus Said and Why it Matters Now"

Jesus, help me move beyond my guilt and shame. Teach me to love myself with an unconditional love that heals, transforms and reconciles.

— from "What Jesus Said and Why it Matters Now"

Today's Daily Text Reading from the Moravians:

Do not fear, for I am with you; do not be afraid, for I am your God.
Isaiah 41:10

We will devote ourselves to prayer and to serving the word. Acts 6:4

Dear God, if we pray, why do we fear? If we fear, why bother to pray? Help us to
remember to pray first and then to serve without fear. Help us to trust you to
take care of the rest of our troubles. Amen.

And today's "Saint of the Day" was Padre Pio... whom I've done some reading on, and find to be quite fascinating.

Mid-Afternoon Lull

I guess I can't really blame the lull on the fact that it's mid-afternoon.

Thanks to the headache I woke up with, I've been feeling listless and unmotivated all day.

Only about an hour or so of work left, and then I'm heading home.

I've got a fairly quiet evening planned.

L is cooking tonight, and I believe we're eating frittata, so I don't have to worry about that. I can just go home and get going on some other stuff. I'd like to accomplish at least a few items from my "to do" list for the week tonight.

I also need to do a bit of research and studying in preparation for some upcoming stuff.

But mostly I'm aiming for rest and a peaceful evening.

It'll be good to do that after a listless sort of day. Reorient, refocus, and refresh. And hopefully sleep tonight so that tomorrow is smoother.

Oww.

I forgot something, when I talked about "weird intercessor days" yesterday.

I forgot that they can become "weird intercessor nights", a phenomenon that generally involves very little sleep, and waking up in a less than functional mode.

I had a weird intercessor night last night. It was compounded by the fact that every muscle in my neck, shoulders and back seems to have tightened overnight, and that I woke with the worst headache I've had in months.

So, high-functioning is not a particularly accurate description of me today.

The painkillers are helping, and so is putting a magic bag around my neck for periods of time.

But mostly I find myself moving a bit as if I'm in a fog. Having trouble focusing.

I was thankful that the plan for this morning was to spend at least part of it out of the office, doing an errand. That helped a bit. At least for that I didn't need to be staring at a screen and pretending to focus.

So, I'm back at the office, and in between moments of focus, I'm writing a blog post for all of you.

And thinking "oww."