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my mind feels blank. it took me an hour to get to work today and 1 1/2 hours after i started working, they told me there was nothing left to do until tomorrow. took another half hour bus ride to meet my mom to go home. two hours of travel for 1 1/2 hours of work. what a day. i guess it's a good thing i'm getting paid more than $2 an hour! :p

no profound spiritual insights lately. although, i was reading The Message translation of the the book of Matthew this morning, and the sermon on the mount made a lot more sense. sort of related to that, i've been praying for God to convict me of sin daily. 'cuz i want to experience His grace and new mercies. i want to be sold out to Jesus, but it always seems like there's so much garbage in the way. i am so easily distracted. oh, how heaven will be so sweet; nothing to take my eyes off Jesus.

anyway, i'll leave you with a couple passages i read this morning:

And don't say anything you don't mean. This counsel is embedded deep in our traditions. You only make things worse when you lay down a smoke screen of pious talk, saying, 'I'll pray for you,' and never doing it, or saying, 'God be with you,' and not meaning it. You don't make words true by embellishing them with religious lace. In making your speech sound more religious, it becomes less true. Just say 'yes' and 'no.' When you manipulate words to get your own way, you go wrong.
Matthew 5:33-37 [The Message]

Don't be flip with the sacred. Banter and silliness give no honour to God. Don't reduce holy mysteries to slogans. In trying to be relevant, you're only being cute and inviting sacrilege.
Matthew 7:6 [The Message]