Mind-Blowing

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i always, as a younger man, thought i'd be cool by telling folks that i was never a lonely person.  i'd always say, "i may be alone, but never lonely."  i'm sure i wasn't the first or last person to ever try to con people with that crap.  The only person i was fooling was myself.  i've lived by myself for years now.  i've lost count, but that's the way i like it.  Especially now that i have the Lord.  i really never got the concept of living parallel lives with somone.  Seems these days most anyone i'd ever hook up with for a roomie will be too busy on a cellphone anyway.  Amazing how that creepy gadget works to only alienate people.  Not bring them together.   


YAH, You splash orange in the sunrise and cast the sky in blue.  And yes i love to see birds in the sly gathering together, so i'm not surprised when i see them, too.  They are a delight to see and hear.  You made the squirrels' tails so bushy and i love to watch them stand up on their hind legs when they find a peanut i tossed them.  i love walking by a stream with flowers and just as the right breeze is blowing i can catch the fragrance of those flowers and this time of year smelling the aroma of autumn leaves.  It's mind-blowing.  How could anything spoil my morning after that?

YAH, in the day that i call You answer me speedily.  i lie awake and am like a sparrow alone on the housetop. -[Psalm 102: 2,7]  This will be written for the generation to come, That a people yet to be created may praise the Lord. [v. 18]  But You are the same.  And Your years have no end. [v. 27]  You have put my sins as far from me as the est is from the west. -[Psalm 103:12] 

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