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Created by the talented [Link To User poulynoe]")  }   Jay has asked for the weekends off so I will send a prompt on Saturday. Remember that no prompy gors out on Sunday since most of us should be concentrating on worshiping Jesus then.I gave received several blessings over the past few days. I will be working soon I believe and I received a mice publishing contract. How has God blessed you? I have had several blessings today. I am almost certain I am going to get the position I am seeking. All I am waiting for now is to make sure that a person with an RBA qualifies as an addiction counselor per state medicaide guidelines as many of the clients I will see are through Medicaide. I have a Regent Bachelor of Arts degree with 78 hours of psychology on it as opposed to a BSW or BS in psychology. My prospective employer just wants to be sure the RBA will work. It typically does, especially when the RBA emphasizes psychology or social work and mine emphasizes psychology. So I probably have a job. I will know for sure next week. My second blessing is a book contract that was signed yesterday. My book "Styles in Poetry", a collection of poems and short stories I have written over the years, will be published this coming summer. The marketing plan is pretty aggressive and includes radio interviews on national radio, podcasts about my book, a retailer book buy-back plan backed by insurance so I won't lose money, and other options. I think this could be a lucrative deal for me. Over the next few months we are going to work on the design, editing, paper quality, pricing, everything to make it a valuable "must-have" book and me a known author. God has been very good to me. Praise you Father for your continued providence. Thank you for allowing me to wake up this morning not under the threat of facing the Lake of Fire prepared for Satan and his angels, but facing eternity with Jesus Christ who died for me. Oh Father you are wonderful and so loving. I cannot express the unspeakable joy I feel. You are my anchor at stormy seas and you are my sunshine on the mountaintops. Everything I have is due to you!  Today while avoiding materializing in the center of a star, we warped across the WDC galaxy and found a veteran of WDC. The star is Writer_Mike   who writes a story about an aunt who was not wanted in a boy's life.
The ending will surprise you. Have you ever wanted somebody to be gone? What did you do? Yes. I had a man move in with me once. He was an old hob but kept himself clean for the most part. He just drank too much. He got drunk one night and made the mistake of threatening Susan, my late wife. Up to that point I tolerated him and listened to his fantasies about recruiting me for a motorcycle gang and riding the highways to Spurgis or whatever it is. His fantasies scared my wife for she thought I really wanted to join him in those escapades. If I had known she thought I was serious I would have ended it sooner. Then when he decided it was alright to "hit a brother's bitch" and laid his hands on my wife he found out the hard way that I was just going along with him. I nearly broke my fist while breaking his jaw and tossing him out of my house. The neighbors called the police who ended up ruling my behavior self-defense and hauling him to jail. He died several years ago now, old, broken, and drunk. "Prompt: Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.Saint Augustine What do you think?" I disagree. The reward of faith is eternal life. Another reward is to be serene in the face of the storm. Prompt: "On this day January 29, 1924 was the beginning of the Winter Olympics. It's been almost a 100 years.. What is your favorite winter event in the Olympics? Why? If you had the opportunity would you compete?"I am blogging a day behind and answered this in yesterday's post.        |
| } This entry is a day late. I was up and gone yesterday before I had a chance to enter it because I had a job interview. The interview went great. Mow I just have to wait and be sure my RBA has enough education behind it work as a counselor in the human services field. I'm certain it will have. In fact, one agency told me that I have enough qualification now that I could start my own agency. I just don't want all the headaches. I want to be where I can deliver direct services. I have to wait until Monday to get the final clearance to work and then I will be signing my name Marvin D. Schrebe, RBA, CPRSS, ADC. All sorts of initials. My brother doesn't understand that at all. He has complained all of his life that his signature is too long. The last thing he wants is titles to add to it. I told him those titles make him more valuable. Prompt: What does it mean to come to Christ as personal Savior and Lord?I think coming to Christ as Lord and Savior means different things to different people. To some it has a courtly, legal ring meaning they surrender their will and their life to Jesus and He becomes their King and Master. To others it means they enter a covenant with Jesus in which they do His will and his bidding and He becomes their sacrificial lamb and resurrected Savior to save them from sin. To still others it is a legal proceeding in which God the Father adopts them as His children and they become heirs of the kingdom of God. To me it is all of these things and more. It is the second birth which took place at baptism in which the water represented the grave and the baptism represented the second-birth resurrection that I shared with Jesus to walk in newness of life. It represents deep theological themes that I do not have time right now to detail. It means walking daily by the Savior's side and resting each moment in the crucified. Prompt: "Today while cruising through the galaxy of cyberspace that is WDDC, we came upon a shining star that I have become familiar with. Writer_Mike discusses a benefit jail he was held in
Write about benefits, charities, etc." I have been arrested in these special charitable events. The way it works is the charity works with the local police to do fund raisers. A contributor pledges to match up to a certain amount and then declares a "warrant" on a member of the community whom they believe has enough friends and family who will "pay" the person's bail. The police then goi to the "suspects" house and literally arrests them complete with reading of rights and handcuffs. They take them to "booking" which is a phone room. They are then allowed to call family and friends to raise a "bond" which is whatever amount the person signing the warrant agrees to pledge. This way the amount doubles for the charity. If the "suspect" cannot raise the amount in a certain amount of time they are released with a hearty thank you for playing along and transported back home. I raised $10,000.00 for a charity one time because I knew a lot of people who would gladly contribute to it. The amount of my bond was originally set at $200.00. The charity was thrilled and my friends all thought it was a gas to see me walking away in custody. It was all for a good cause and a ton of fun, even if I thought I was losing a day's work over it. As it turned out, my boss was the one who pledged the $200.00 to get me arrested to begin with so it was all in a day's work. lol. Prompt: "On this day Edgar Allan Poe's poem, The Raven, was published in 1845. What's your favorite Poe poem and why?"I can't remember the title, but I remember reading a Poe poem in one of my undergraduate literature classes in which there was a body buried in the floor or something and the suspect had hallucinations about the heart beating. They became so bad that his erratic behavior ended up getting him arrested for the murder, as I recall. I don't remember the name of the poem and scarcely remember the details. It could have been The Raven for all I recall. Prompt: "On this day January 29, 1924 was the beginning of the Winter Olympics. It's been almost a 100 years.. What is your favorite winter event in the Olympics? Why? If you had the opportunity would you compete?"I don't care for sports of any kind. If I do watch any part of the winter Olympics it is the ski jump. To be honest, I don't get over thrilled about any of it unless an underdog suddenly wins. |
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